Impact of public private partnership on improving free health services to elderly people in Tanzania public Hospitals

Kimashi, Erick (2019) Impact of public private partnership on improving free health services to elderly people in Tanzania public Hospitals. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study sought to examine the Impact of Public Private Partnership on improving free health services to elderly people in Tanzania public hospitals. The objectives of the study included; (i) To examine how public private partnership can provide free health services to elderly people in Sinza Palestine Hospital (ii) To explore how public private partnership can improve the delivery of free health services to elder people in Sinza Palestine Hospital (iii) To find out the significance of Public Private Partnership in facilitating the access of free health services to aged people in Sinza Palestine Hospital. The study employed a case study design and a sample of 77 respondents who were elder patients, and health employees. In terms of sampling procedure, purposive sampling was used. Purposive sampling was adopted to select health workers according to their designation and elder people who visited public hospitals. Data from questionnaire and interviews was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative data were subjected to content analysis, while quantitative data were extracted, classified and computed using SPSS into frequencies and percentages, and presented in tables and charts. The study findings revealed that, 90% of elder patientsdidn’t access frees health services in public hospitals. Moreover, study findings indicated that 60% percentage of the elder patients received normal services when they visited Sinza Palestine hospital. Again, findings from the study showed that 42% and 35% of respondents revealed that shortage of doctors and lack of essential medicine at Sinza Palestine hospital was their major challenge. The study suggested strong measures to be taken in order to rectify and improve the situation by strong implement and use PPP models to raise the quality of health services when serving elder patients.

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