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Objectives Recently, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) has drawn attention as an efficient strategy to response toward increasing different needs for health in low-income and middle-income countries under tremendously growing private sectors and restricted public finance. Neveretheless, in the society of international health development, there is no commonly acceptable definition of PPP. To make the targets and purpose of the PPP clear, the study attempted to define the PPP, reconsidering the relationship among five concepts, which have been recently used to solve social issues, such as BOP business, social business, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Creating Shared Values (CSV) as well as PPP.Methods We conducted scrutiny of definitions of PPP in other literatures using bibliographic retrieval and associated PPP with the other four concepts in order to attempt to define PPP.Results and conclusion We analysed the contents and relationship of the five concepts. Thus, the PPP can be defined as a process in which public and private sectors collaborate to aim to solve a social issue, not only to reply to societal expectation but also to achieve company growth.