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Author Bloom, Gerald

Title Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa : Improving quality and access for the poor
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Pathways to Sustainability
Pathways to sustainability series.
Contents Cover -- Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Markets, institutions and health systems -- The limits of markets -- 'Path dependency' and institutional change -- Health systems in low- and middle-income countries -- Implications for markets and states -- Markets and the health knowledge economy -- Understanding market systems -- Types of markets in health-related goods and services
Chapter 4: Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh -- Background -- Objectives of the review -- Background to the pharmaceutical sector in Bangladesh -- The specific role of drug detailers in the informal healthcare market -- Education and training -- Income and other incentives -- Perceived job responsibilities -- Interactions with healthcare providers -- Interaction with pharmacists -- Job satisfaction -- Professional associations -- Proposed framework for identifying key stakeholders in the drug supply chain -- Steps forward -- References
Different types of service transaction and degree of complexity -- Segmented health systems -- Ownership, mission and accountability of different market players -- Interconnected markets -- Local, national and international market systems -- What do institutional arrangements in health market systems do? -- Creating institutional arrangements for more orderly health-related markets -- Understanding and theorizing from local realities -- References -- Chapter 2: Transition in the Indian healthcare market -- Background -- Inpatient care: corporatization of health care
Introduction -- The ShasthyaSena intervention -- ShasthyaSena training -- Measuring the impact of the intervention -- Analysing the level of impact -- Positive attitude of village doctors -- Lack of information about drug appropriateness -- Local demand for inappropriate medicines -- Difficulties in introducing fees beyond charging for drugs -- Commission paid by pharmaceutical companies -- Failure to refer complicated cases to public facilities -- Views of the elected representatives -- Views of the community members -- Discussion -- References
Transition in structure and spread -- Linkages, responses and impacts -- Institutional arrangements -- Outpatient care: rapid spread of the underground market -- Transition in structure and spread -- Linkages, responses and impacts -- Institutional arrangements -- Pharmaceutical products and services: a derived-growth market -- Transition in structure and spread -- Linkage, responses and impacts -- Institutional arrangements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal healthcare providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh
Summary There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. The effort to bring order to these chaotic markets is almost certain to become one of the greatest challenges in global health. This book documents the problems associated with unregulated health markets and presents innovative approaches that have emerged to address them. It outlines a framework th
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Subject Medical care -- Africa
Medical care -- Asia
Health care reform -- Africa
Health care reform -- Asia
Health services accessibility -- Africa
Health services accessibility -- Asia
Health care reform
Health services accessibility
Medical care
Africa
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Kanjilal, Barun
Lucas, Henry
Peters, David H
ISBN 9781136238246
1136238247