Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries – Making Health Development Sustainable (Harvard Series on Population and International Health) - Softcover

Berman, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067438525X ISBN 13: 9780674385252

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

How can countries like Mexico, Kenya, or the Philippines, with limited funds and medical resources, find an affordable, effective and fair way to balance competing health needs and demands? Such dilemmas are the focus of this book in which leading international researchers bring together thinking on how developing countries can reform health care. The choices these poorer countries make today will determine the place of health improvement for vast numbers of people now and in the future. Exploring new ideas and concepts, as well as the practical experiences of nations in all parts of the world, this volume provides insights and information to both generalists and specialists interested in how health care will look in the world of the 21st century.

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Review

Contributors write with refreshing honesty about inefficiency, poor management, and corruption, and others highlight how professional power and politics can hinder change.--Paul Garner "British Medical Journal " Attention to health sector reform continues to grow. Greater awareness of the benefits of holistic change and the wide variety of tools available to effect such change can only be positive. The publication of this review of theories and experiences of reform, despite its understandable bias towards the work of the host institution, is both timely and welcome.--Sally Lake "Health Economics " "Attention to health sector reform continues to grow. Greater awareness of the benefits of holistic change and the wide variety of tools available to effect such change can only be positive. The publication of this review of theories and experiences of reform, despite its understandable bias towards the work of the host institution, is both timely and welcome." --Sally Lake, "Health Economics" "Enlightening about the dilemmas and challenges in developing countries. Very beneficial to our present work in health reform in Egypt." --Professor Ismail Sallam, Minister of Health and Population, Government of Egypt "A virtue of the country and regional case studies is that they are authored by local researchers who have lived the reforms first hand. This offers a good balance to the theoretical section." --Professor Max Price, Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa "A virtue of the country and regional case studies is that they are authored by local researchers who have lived the reforms first hand. This offers a good balance to the theoretical section." --Professor Max Price, Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa "Provides valuable insights into how developing countries have tried to deal with difficult issues and possible strategies for the future, especially in the case of redefining the appropriate role of the state and the private sector." --Dr. Alexander Preker, World Bank

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067438525X
• ISBN 13: 9780674385252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424