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1 online resource |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
| Summary |
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 to changes or are they rigid? In which circumstances and under which conditions do health systems respond favourably or unfavourably? What are the success stories? Country studies from Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Colombia discuss lessons learned and identify policy measur |
| Notes |
Publisher's Web site: http://www.idrc.ca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
MAPHealth project
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Health care reform -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Health services accessibility -- Developing countries
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Medical policy -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Political planning -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries
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Economic stabilization -- Developing countries
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Medical economics -- Developing countries
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Economic stabilization
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Health care reform -- Economic aspects
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Health services accessibility
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Medical economics
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Medical policy -- Economic aspects
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Political planning -- Economic aspects
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baris, Enis
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Haddad, Slim, 1960-
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Narayana, D. L., 1925-
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International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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| ISBN |
9781552503706 |
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1552503704 |
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