Health care systems in developing and transition countries
Subtitle: the role of research evidence
By: edited by Diana Pinto Masís, Peter C. Smith
Series: Global development network
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781848440029
Subjects: Economics; Medical policy; Health Services Accessibility; Delivery of Health Care; Social Change; Research; Health Policy; Gesundheitswesen; Medical care; Developing Countries
Description: "Health policy is a central preoccupation of many, if not all, developing countries. This book presents a selection of ten studies that illustrate the powerful tool that carefully conducted research can offer policy-makers seeking to address common health policy issues. The studies included in this book illustrate the major gains to patients and citizens that can accrue from research efforts, stimulating research capacity in developing countries. Although many of the challenges confronting health systems are universal, it is often the case that research results derived from developing countries can be misleading when applied to the low or middle-income settings. This insightful book will be a valuable research tool for academics, researchers and policy-makers in economics and health."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Productivity change in health services in developing countries: some empirical estimates / Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya; title: Health sector outcomes in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: a tale of two countries / Aparnaa Somanathan, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya and Tahmina Begum; title: Preventing impoverishment, promoting equity and protecting households from financial crisis: universal health insurance through institutional reform in Mexico / Felicia Marie Knaul ... [et al.]; title: Community prepayment of health care and the willingness to pay: evidence of rural households in central Cameroon / Joachim Nyemeck Binam, Diarra Ibrahim and Valère Nkelzok; title: Risk segmentation, moral hazard and equity in Chile?s mandatory health insurance system / Claudio Sapelli; title: The impact of public health insurance on access and equity: Peru?s mother and infant insurance program / Miguel Jaramillo; title: Getting to the heart of the matter: hospital competition and cardiac patients in Taiwan / Hsien-Ming Lien ... [et al.]; title: Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality / Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Ernesto Schargrodsky; title: Antenatal clinics, patients and HIV prevalence in Cambodia / Vonthanak Saphonn ... [et al.]; title: Rural household vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and economic efficiency in southern Nigeria / A.S. Oyekale.