Transforming health markets in Asia and Africa : improving quality and access for the poor

Transforming health markets in Asia and Africa improving quality and access for the poor

"Markets for health-related goods and services have spread rapidly in many low and middle-income countries. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services, but it has created problems with safety, efficacy and cost. Making Health Markets Work addresses th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Gerald (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2013.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Pathways to sustainability series
Subjects:
Medical care > Africa.
Medical care > Asia.
Health care reform > Africa.
Health care reform > Asia.
Health services accessibility > Africa.
Health services accessibility > Asia.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transition in the Indian healthcare market / Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar
  • Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal health care providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Iqbal [and others]
  • Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh / M. Hafizur Rahman and Smisha Agarwal
  • China's rural hospitals in the transition to a market economy : a case study in two peri-urban counties in Guangxi province / Gerald Bloom [and others]
  • Informal markets in sexual and reproductive health services and commodities in rural and urban Bangladesh / Hilary Standing, Sabina Faiz Rashid, and Owasim Akram
  • Improving the performance of patent medicine vendors in Nigeria / Oladimeji Oladepo and Henry Lucas
  • Yes, they can : peer educators for diabetes in Cambodia / Maurits van Pelt [and others]
  • Evidence of the effects of market-based innovations and international initiatives to improve the performance of private providers / Claire Champion, Gerald Bloom, David Peters
  • - A review of ICT innovations by private sector providers in developing countries / Henry lucas
  • The economics of social franchising for health in low and middle income countries / David Bishai and Claire Champion
  • Conclusions : making health markets work better for poor people / Gerald Bloom [and others].

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