Title Banking on health : the world bank and health sector reform in Latin America / Shiri Noy

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 The World Bank, Development, and Health; Introduction; The Puzzle; Global Governance and the Changing Shape of Neoliberalism; The World Bank as Policy Advisor; The Washington Consensus: Word and Deed; A Paradigm Shift? Human Rights, Poverty Reduction, and a Possible Post-Washington Consensus; The World Bank and Health; Tools of Influence: Loans, Conditionality, and Structural Adjustment; Ends and Means: Policy Paradigms, Goals, and Instruments in Health Sector Reform; Paradigmatic Goals: Equity and Efficiency Policy Instruments in Health Sector ReformDecentralization and Deconcentration; Separation of Functions; Performance-Based Financing; Privatization and Private Sector Involvement; Primary Health Care Approach; Targeting; Health, Development, and the State in Latin America; Regional Context; Latin American Health Systems in Historical Perspective; State Capacity and Autonomy in Health; Case Selection; Outline of the Book; References; Chapter 2 Neoliberalism and the World Bank's Changing Approach to Health; Banking in Health: The 1975 Health Sector Policy Paper World Bank Direct Lending in Health: 1980 Health Policy PaperDebt Crisis and Structural Adjustment: World Bank Interventions; Structural Adjustment "with a Human Face"? The Social Dimensions of Adjustment; The 1993 World Development Report: Individualism, Human Capital, and DALYs; The Late 1990s, Early 2000s: Health Outcomes and Systems; The 2004 World Development Report: Pursuing Accountability and a Pro-growth, Pro-poor Agenda; 2005 and Beyond: Back to Basics in Health?; References; Chapter 3 The State of Health in Latin America: Trends and Correlates of Health Expenditures; Introduction BackgroundExtending Welfare State Theories to Latin America; Development and Comparative Health Systems; Globalization, Neoliberalism, International Financial Institutions, and Health Spending; Convergence in Health; Previous Research on Social and Health Spending in Latin America; Data and Measures of Health Expenditures; Health Spending Per Capita; Total Health Spending as a Percent of GDP; Public Spending on Health as a Percent of GDP; Private Spending on Health as a Percent of GDP; Public Health Expenditure as a Percent of Total Health Expenditure Spending on Health as a Percent of Total Government SpendingTrends in Spending; Regression Sample and Method; Expectations; Economic and Demographic Conditions; Political Structure; Economic Globalization; World Bank Loan Conditionality; Regression Results; Economic and Demographic Conditions; Political Structure; Economic Globalization; World Bank Loan Conditionality; Conclusion; Appendix A; References; Chapter 4 Argentina: Mixed Outcomes While Coping with Crisis in a Planner State; Government Autonomy and Capacity in Health in Argentina: The Planner State Summary This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has not promoted a uniformly neoliberal, monolithic agenda in health. Second, countries' autonomy and capacity in this sector shape how the World Bank is involved in reforms. Finally, the book distinguishes neoliberal ends from means in health sector reform and traces changes in "banking on health" over time Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject World Bank. SUBJECT World Bank fast Subject Health care reform -- Latin America Medical economics -- Latin America Neoliberalism -- Latin America Health care reform. Health Care Reform BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Health care reform Medical economics Neoliberalism SUBJECT Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879 Latin America Subject Latin America Form Electronic book ISBN 9783319617657 3319617656

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