Restructuring Health Services: Changing Contexts and Comparative Perspectives - Softcover

Kasturi Sen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842772899 ISBN 13: 9781842772898

Publisher: Zed Books, 2003

Synopsis

Health service delivery is being restructured in both industrialised and developing countries. Public health scholars and policy makers in this volume show how this process is accelerating as a result of diverse factors including fiscal pressure, privatisation of infrastructure, and the impending renegotiation of the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

The key policy issues that arise concern the implications of these changes for access and equity in public health provision.

The volume reviews the rapidly changing context in which financing health care and its relationship to globalization and privatisation are taking place. It examines the specific mechanisms and institutional processes involved. And it explores various contrasting experiences, including HMOs in the USA, Britain's NHS, social health insurance in Western Europe, developing countries, and Cuba.

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About the Author

Kasturi Sen was born in Kolkata India but moved to the UK in her teens in the seventies She is currently at Wolfson College (CR) University of Oxford She has been involved in international public health research, teaching and evalutation for the past three decades. . Her particular interests are in comparative health systems research with a focus on health financing,health policy and planning. She has coordinated several multi-centre studies for the European Commission, in the Middle East and in South Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842772899
• ISBN 13: 9781842772898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Kasturi Sen