In Denmark and Sweden separate enterprise agreements, called 'adhesion agreements', are signed by unorganized firms under union strike pressure in order to widen the scope of sector agreements, not as its alternative.
Initiatives that could be taken to expand the scope of health sector development to the private sector include: education and training; assisting authorities to develop guidelines for registration and certification; assisting Somali health workers to create effective professional associations; the "purchase" of services from established private services.
Few hard statistics exist on the scope of the sector, but 10 years ago there were 24,000 matatus in Kenya.
They don't get an idea of the scope of the sector.
The scope of public sector data is of course very wide indeed — covering everything from medical records held by the UK's National Health Service to employment, welfare and other highly sensitive data held by the Department for Work and Pensions, to asylum and immigration data on file at the Home Office, to name just a few examples.
At the same time, I recognize that addressing the scope of the sector's impacts poses a challenge to cultural planning, which, to be successful, must be feasible, focused and funded.
This is a perspective that is extremely helpful for research on APs, where a large number of associated factors remain far beyond the scope of this sector.
However, our evidence on what works, particularly in the private health sector of developing regions, is relatively weak [ 7], and greater understanding of the effectiveness, scale, and scope of private sector initiatives is needed [ 8].
The fear the deal may extend the scope of patents in sectors such a medicine and prevent the distribution of generic drugs.
Enforcing transparency on these issues is very often beyond the scope of the health sector alone, as it does require broader interventions cutting across sectors at national level, touching upon economic sectors (growth of local production, fiscal policies), trade, customs, law enforcement agencies and other aspects.
