Health Services In Latin America And Asia

Author : José Núñez del Arco
Publisher : IDB
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1931003106

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Health Services in Latin America and Asia by José Núñez del Arco Pdf

On either side of the globe, poor people often do not have access to the health services they need. Improvements in health care systems in Asia have lagged behind economic development, and progress in expanding health coverage in Latin America has been skewed across income levels. Health Services in Latin America and Asia takes a close look at how countries in both regions provide health care services, including the strategies that work and the problems that persist. The book documents encouraging progress in Bolivia, Brazil, China and Vietnam, and important preventive care programs in Central America and Thailand. It also examines health services in Chile, Colombia, the Philippines and Malaysia, as well as the health system and insurance model in Japan.Even though public and preventive health require specific and sustained allocations, both regions continue to use health insurance and other supply mechanisms to expand health service coverage. The book recommends broadening the supply of services through family doctors and community health workers, an alternative approach that would likely improve the equity, efficiency and sustainability of services.

Author : James W. McGuire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139486224

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Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America by James W. McGuire Pdf

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889369238

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Reshaping Health Care in Latin America by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Author : James William McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 1139234803

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Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America by James William McGuire Pdf

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others.

Author : United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Africa
ISBN : SRLF:D0001204254

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Report of Working Group on Education in Medicine and Related Fields in Latin America, Africa and Asia by United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Pdf

Author : Ricardo A. Bitran,D. Keith McInnes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821323415

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The Demand for Health Care in Latin America by Ricardo A. Bitran,D. Keith McInnes Pdf

Spanish summary. The full report examines the public policies of 8 high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) from 1965 to 1990. It seeks to uncover the role those policies played in the dramatic economic growth, improved human welfare, and more equitable income distribution in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (China), and Thailand. HPAEs stabilized their economies with sound development policies that led to fast growth. They were committed to sharing the new prosperity by making income distribution more equitable. Their public policies promoted rapid capital accumulation by making banks more reliable and encouraging high levels of domestic savings. They increased the skilled labor force by providing universal primary schooling and better primary and secondary education. Agricultural policies supported productivity, while requiring only modest taxes. HPAEs kept price distortions in check and welcomed new technology and FDI. Legal and regulatory structures created a positive business environment. Cooperation between governments and private enterprises was fostered. Beyond the fundamentals of accepted macroeconomic management, HPAEs adopted policies at variance with the notion of the level playing field of open-market free enterprise. HPAEs targeted key industries for rapid development. In key areas, resource allocation was strictly managed. Trade in manufactured exports was promoted by government-established marketing institutions. Analysts disagree about the effectiveness of such interventions, but agree that without the foundation of macroeconomic stability and development of human and physical capital, the expansion would not have been so dramatic and sustainable. This report reviews the basic development policies of HPAEs that created macroeconomic stability. It explains why most countries should not use government interventions in today's changing global economy.

Author : Ramesh Govindaraj,Christopher J. L. Murray,Gnanaraj Chellaraj
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821331426

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Health Expenditures in Latin America by Ramesh Govindaraj,Christopher J. L. Murray,Gnanaraj Chellaraj Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 274. The preparation of the World Bank's World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (WDR) included an effort to assemble internationally comparable statistics on a broad range of health and health system indicators. Data had to be compiled from existing sources while analytical efforts were made to improve the quality and comparability of the data. This paper presents an expanded and updated version of the WDR estimates of 1990 health expenditures for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Whereas the population cut-off for inclusion in the WDR was 3 million, these tables include almost all countries in the region. This update of the expenditures results in a substantial upward revision in the estimated percentage of GNP spent on health in the region in 1990 from 4 to 6%.

Author : Christian Aspalter,Kenny Teguh Pribadi,Robin Gauld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317123125

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Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia by Christian Aspalter,Kenny Teguh Pribadi,Robin Gauld Pdf

For the last two decades, major Asian economies have successfully kept their economic growth momentum going. Now, as these economies are entering a new phase of economic growth, more attention is being paid to their respective states of social development, especially the provision and the expansion of social security and, in particular, health care. Academic study of the development of health care in developing countries has been for the most part neglected by the literature, and in-depth country case studies that are directly comparable on a one-to-one basis have not yet been conducted in a systematic manner. This book volume also proposes a new stance on health policy and the health care policy paradigm, one that focuses on "saving lives" from premature death, as well as illness, accidents, misery and poverty, based on the normative theory of developmental social policy (DSP). This groundbreaking book will therefore serve as a valuable reference volume for health policy, social policy and public policy experts, social development experts, health and development economists, health sociologists, social workers, government administrators as well as other medical and health professionals and academics.

Author : United States. Public Health Service. Bureau of State Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : America
ISBN : UCAL:C2936282

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10 Years of Cooperative Health Programs in Latin America by United States. Public Health Service. Bureau of State Services Pdf

Author : Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023673

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Medicine and Public Health in Latin America by Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer Pdf

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

Author : Andrew Twaddle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780313013034

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Health Care Reform Around the World by Andrew Twaddle Pdf

Health care reforms around the world—from Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asia—seem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the efficiency of medical care, with the assertion that democratically or professionally run systems are inherently inefficient. Far less concern is evident for the more traditional values held regarding medical care, effectiveness (or quality) and equity. The fact is that we have little good cross-national research that systematically addresses the reform issue. This book addresses that problem, and attempts to look at health care reforms in a number of countries, representing as wide a spectrum as possible, and using a common conceptual framework that allows for comparable information to be gathered and presented on each, despite differing levels of socio-economic development. The authors agreed on a set of models that were thought to provide reasonable guidance in answering the questions of the source of pressures for reform, the alternative modes of organization that have been found in the world in recent years, and the direction of change among those alternatives.

Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199233779

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Reassembling Social Security by Carmelo Mesa-Lago Pdf

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

Author : Richard Coker,Rifat Atun,Martin McKee
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335236282

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EBOOK: Health Systems and the Challenge of Communicable Diseases: Experiences from Europe and Latin America by Richard Coker,Rifat Atun,Martin McKee Pdf

"This is an excellent book, well-writtenand well-documented. The editors havesucceeded to bring together a largenumber of knowledgeable authors tocover comprehensively the vast area ... public health actors dealingwith infectious diseases bothat central and local level, whether inresearch, teaching or practice as well asprofessionals working in diagnostic andtherapeutic health services, notably inmicrobiology and infectious diseasescould greatly benefit from reading thebook. Politicians and lay administratorswith responsibility in the field would bewell advised to do the same." European Journal of Public Health Health systems everywhere face constant change as they seek to respond to evolving patterns of disease. This is especially true with communicable diseases where humanity is engaged in a constant evolutionary struggle with micro-organisms that are able to adapt rapidly to a changing world. This problem can be, for example, exemplified recently by the growth of antibiotic resistant infection. This fascinating book confronts this challenge, looking at two regions where the pace of change is especially rapid, Europe and Latin America - places where health systems, many themselves undergoing rapid organisational transition, must find ways of adapting to an ever changing context. The book begins with an historical overview, recalling how humans and micro-organisms have always competed, at times with profound historical consequences, before examining the current status of this evolutionary struggle. It assesses the extent to which human societies and their governments are prepared for the challenges ahead and reviews the experiences of countries in Europe and Latin America in developing effective responses. Health Systems and the Challenge of Communicable Diseases will be of interest to those engaged in the development of health policy in high and middle income countries, and to those who are studying the creation and implementation of health policy.

Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000535498

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Health Care for the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean by Carmelo Mesa-Lago Pdf

Author : Willy De Geyndt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821336959

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Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America by Willy De Geyndt Pdf

"Using econometric techniques analyzes causes of widespread poverty in Latin America and the 10 largest East and South Asian countries. Concludes that slow economic growth is not the only explanatory variable, and cites importance of schools and health care"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.