ArticleHeliyon2023
Public-private partnership in the Portuguese health sector.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social Representations of Healthcare Organisational Models and Professional Practice Among Public-Sector Physicians and Nurses in Portugal: A Prototypical Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exploring the Role of and Factors Affecting Public-Private Partnership in Health Care Systems: A Scoping Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Review
- Value-Based Healthcare as a Competitive Strategy-A Multi-Stakeholder Perception Analysis in Portuguese Healthcare.Journal of market access & health policy · 2025Article
- Assessing the performance of Portuguese public hospitals before and during COVID-19 outbreak, with optimistic and pessimistic benchmarking approaches.Health care management science · 2025Article
- Waiting times spillovers in a National Health Service hospital network: a little organizational diversity can go a long way.Health economics review · 2024Article
- The Collaboration of Private Hospitals with the Public Health Service: The Case of La Rioja, Spain (1986-2019).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Unlocking the WHO's Age-Friendly Healthcare Principles: Portugal's Quest and Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Since 2001, in Portugal, constant reforms in hospital management have accompanied the transformations in the management models applied to public administration, intending to ensure a higher quality of services and, simultaneously, a more significant economic efficiency. This study aims to analyse, for the period between 2012 and 2021, the economic and financial results (value-for-money) of the PPP model, compared with the public management hospitals (PMH). It used a mixed research approach based on multiple case studies and archival research. As the main results, it was found that: i) the PPP model, applied to the health sector, appears to be advantageous, not only regarding the economic and financial results but also concerning the quality of service provision; and ii) despite the value-for-money generated by the PPP model, the lower operating costs and the superior performance in comparison with PMH, the government has permanently opted to revert from a PPP model to a PMH model. This study concluded that the hospital management model is instead seen as an instrumentalised political instrument than a management tool that could generate savings for the taxpayers. Several practical implications are presented.
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