[EQ] Safeguarding the Health System in Times of Macroeconomic Instability

SAFEGUARDING THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN TIMES OF MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY
Policy Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Edited by
Slim Haddad, Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal

Enis Barış, Senior Public Health Specialist at the World Bank

Delampady Narayana, Professor, Reserve Bank of India Development Studies Chair at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala, India
International Development Research Centre, IDRC Canada - Research for Health Equity 2007

 

Available online at: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-114337-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

 

“……..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 measures for safeguarding the health sector.

This book provides a look at the relationships between macroeconomic policy and interventions, health sector reform, and the health system in general, presenting new and detailed observations to inform policy choices within the health-care sector worldwide.
Its focus on health systems and services (including financing, quality, accessibility, and utilization), rather than on health status…. ……”

Content:

 

Foreword Christina Zarowsky (IDRC) - Research for Health Equity 2007


1. The MAPHealth Project: A Multi-Country Initiative
Slim Haddad, Enis Barış, Delampady Narayana 2007


2. Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies and Health Sector Reform: Surveying the Literature
Katherine S. Mohindra 2007


3. Methodological Issues in Evaluating Public Policy
Slim Haddad, Enis Barış, and the MAPHealth team: Katherine S. Mohindra, Delampady Narayana, Jeannie Haggerty, Luis Durán, Stephen K. Chandiwana,
Francisco José Yepes, Sanguan Nittayaramphong, Adrien Nougtara, Barthélémy Kuate Defo 2007


4. Health Sector Reform under Macroeconomic Adjustment in Burkina Faso: Lost Opportunities?
 Adrien Nougtara, Slim Haddad, Jacques Guéda Ouédraogo, Salimata Ky-Ouédraogo, Valéry Ridde, Pierre Fournier 2007


5. Aiming for Equity in Colombia’s Health System Reform: Achievements and Continuing Challenges
Francisco José Yepes, Manuel Ramírez, María Gloria Cano, Rodrigo Bustamante 2007


6. Adjustment and Health Sector Reforms: the Solution to Low Public Spending on Health Care in India?
 Delampady Narayana 2007


7. High Health Achievements and Good Access to Health Care at Great Cost: the Emerging Kerala Situation
 Delampady Narayana 2007


8. Reform without Structural Change: Conserving Traditional Sources of Power and Prestige in Mexico’s Segmented Health Market
Luis Durán, Sofía Arjonilla, Viviane Brachet-Márquez, Jeannie Haggerty 2007


9. The Evolution of Thailand’s Health System after Three Crises, Three Adjustments, and Three Decades of Growth
 Sanguan Nitayarumphong, Y.aowarat Porapakkham, Supattra Srivanichakorn, Sunee Wongkongkathep, Enis Barış 2007


10. Striving to Safeguard Health Systems Undermined by Adjustment: Policy Lessons from Zimbabwe
Stephen K Chandiwana, Tapiwa Jhamba, Charles Mutasa, Brian Chandiwana, Boy Sebit, Henry Chikowa, Paulinus L.N. Sikosana, Levon Arevshatian 2007


11. Political Will and Adaptive Strategies: Keys to Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability
 Slim Haddad, Delampady Narayana, Enis Barış 2007

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