Safeguarding the health sector in times of macroeconomic instability : policy lessons for low- and middle-income countries /

Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and adjustment measures. Are these systems flexible and resilient t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Otros Autores: Baris, Enis, Haddad, Slim, 1960-, Narayana, D. L., 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, ©2008.
Temas:
MAPHealth project.
MAPHealth Project.
Health care reform > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Health services accessibility > Developing countries.
Medical policy > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Political planning > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Developing countries.
Economic stabilization > Developing countries.
Medical economics > Developing countries.
Services de santé > Réforme > Aspect économique > Pays en voie de développement.
Services de santé > Accessibilité > Pays en voie de développement.
Politique sanitaire > Aspect économique > Pays en voie de développement.
Politique publique > Aspect économique > Pays en voie de développement.
Ajustement structurel (Économie) > Pays en voie de développement.
Stabilisation économique > Pays en voie de développement.
Économie de la santé > Pays en voie de développement.
Economic stabilization
Health care reform > Economic aspects
Health services accessibility
Medical economics
Medical policy > Economic aspects
Political planning > Economic aspects
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Developing countries
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1 The MAPHealth Project: A Multi-Country Initiative""; ""CHAPTER 2 Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies and Health Sector Reform: Surveying the Literature""; ""CHAPTER 3 Methodological Issues in Evaluating Public Policy""; ""CHAPTER 4 Health Sector Reform under Macroeconomic Adjustment in Burkina Faso: Lost Opportunities?""; ""CHAPTER 5 Aiming for Equity in Colombia's Health System Reform: Achievements and Continuing Challenges""
  • ""CHAPTER 6 Adjustment and Health Sector Reforms: The Solution to Low Public Spending on Health Care in India?""""CHAPTER 7 High Health Achievements and Good Access to Health Care at Great Cost: The Emerging Kerala Situation""; ""CHAPTER 8 Reform without Structural Change: Conserving Traditional Sources of Power and Prestige in Mexico's Segmented Health Market""; ""CHAPTER 9 The Evolution of Thailand's Health System after Three Crises, Three Adjustments, and Three Decades of Growth""; ""CHAPTER 10 Striving to Safeguard a Health System Undermined by Adjustment: Policy Lessons from Zimbabwe""
  • ""CHAPTER 11 Political Will and Adaptive Strategies: Keys to Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability""""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

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