This book reveals that healthcare systems are not just service providers. They are structures of power.
It offers a groundbreaking analysis of how global health is organized, controlled, and contested. It moves beyond traditional comparisons of hospitals, insurance, and outcomes to examine the underlying architecture that determines:
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book reveals that healthcare systems are not just service providers. They are structures of power.It offers a groundbreaking analysis of how global health is organized, controlled, and contested. It moves beyond traditional comparisons of hospitals, insurance, and outcomes to examine the underlying architecture that determines: Who controls pharmaceutical innovationWho produces life-saving medicinesWho sets global health standardsAnd who remains dependent during crisesThrough a structured comparative framework, the book explores: Western health systems and their institutional dominanceChina's state-driven model of health powerIndia's rise as a global pharmaceutical and digital health forceThe Middle East's resource-driven but externally dependent systemsAfrica's externally supported health structuresSoutheast Asia's adaptive and increasingly coherent systemsA dedicated case study on COVID-19 exposes how these systems perform under pressure-revealing that resilience depends not only on resources, but on structural control.The book concludes by examining the future of global health, asking whether the world is moving toward convergence, fragmentation, or a new multipolar order.This work is essential reading for: Health policy professionalsGlobal health researchersGovernment and development leadersStudents of international systemsAnd anyone seeking to understand how power operates in modern healthcareThis is not a book about healthcare systems.It is a book about who controls them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798255339624
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