Organizing Private Health Care Providers

Organizing Private Health Care Providers provides learners with an appreciation of how joining an organizing effort could benefit them and their health businesses. Case studies of successful organizing efforts illustrate factors that have historically motivated private providers to organize, strategies that they have employed, challenges that they have encountered, and results that they have achieved. The course also explains how organizing for different purposes—advocacy, service delivery, or accessing revenue—will shape the types of strategies used and activities implemented to grow and sustain an organizing effort.

This course is mainly intended to help private health care providers understand the benefits to organizing, identify when and where there might be opportunities to join an organizing effort, and learn what they can do to support greater organization. However, other audiences will also find it useful. Donors and implementing partners can use this course as a guide to support their programs to strengthen the private sector's integration into the health system, or as an advocacy tool to encourage more private providers to participate in their programs. Government stakeholders can also learn how to promote opportunities to facilitate organization and engagement with the private health sector.