This paper undertakes an analysis of the decision to utilize public or private providers for the local provision of emergency medical services (EMS) in cities. We provide a historical overview of the EMS industry from the mid-1860s to the present day. EMS services are commonly broken into two...

Competition for the provision of local public services often involves mixing private firms and public agencies. Predicting competitive outcomes therefore requires identifying the productive and strategic advantages of different organizational configurations: pure public, pure private or a...

This is a copy of an article published in the Population Health Management © 2011 Copyright Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Population Health Management is available online at: http://www.liebertonline.com. DOI: 10.1089/pop.2010.0021.