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Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa : Improving quality and access for the poor.
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Pathways to sustainability series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Introduction
- Markets, institutions and health systems
- The limits of markets
- 'Path dependency' and institutional change
- Health systems in low- and middle-income countries
- Implications for markets and states
- Markets and the health knowledge economy
- Understanding market systems
- Types of markets in health-related goods and services
- Chapter 4: Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh
- Background
- Objectives of the review
- Background to the pharmaceutical sector in Bangladesh
- The specific role of drug detailers in the informal healthcare market
- Education and training
- Income and other incentives
- Perceived job responsibilities
- Interactions with healthcare providers
- Interaction with pharmacists
- Job satisfaction
- Professional associations
- Proposed framework for identifying key stakeholders in the drug supply chain
- Steps forward
- References
- Different types of service transaction and degree of complexity
- Segmented health systems
- Ownership, mission and accountability of different market players
- Interconnected markets
- Local, national and international market systems
- What do institutional arrangements in health market systems do?
- Creating institutional arrangements for more orderly health-related markets
- Understanding and theorizing from local realities
- References
- Chapter 2: Transition in the Indian healthcare market
- Background
- Inpatient care: corporatization of health care
- Introduction
- The ShasthyaSena intervention
- ShasthyaSena training
- Measuring the impact of the intervention
- Analysing the level of impact
- Positive attitude of village doctors
- Lack of information about drug appropriateness
- Local demand for inappropriate medicines
- Difficulties in introducing fees beyond charging for drugs
- Commission paid by pharmaceutical companies
- Failure to refer complicated cases to public facilities
- Views of the elected representatives
- Views of the community members
- Discussion
- References
- Transition in structure and spread
- Linkages, responses and impacts
- Institutional arrangements
- Outpatient care: rapid spread of the underground market
- Transition in structure and spread
- Linkages, responses and impacts
- Institutional arrangements
- Pharmaceutical products and services: a derived-growth market
- Transition in structure and spread
- Linkage, responses and impacts
- Institutional arrangements
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3: Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal healthcare providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh