Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care. It argues for the necessity and possibility of effective policy...

In Tanzania, as in many other low income countries, health care is largely obtained through out-of pocket payment. The current liberalised health care market displays a pattern of exclusion, impoverishment, abuse and poor quality care alongside substantial patches of accessibility and probity,...

Explores the problem of identifying efficient economic behaviour under the NHS reforms. It argues that “business‐like” behaviour by purchasers is unlikely to be economically efficient. However, discussion of more appropriate contracting behaviour tends to be blocked out by assumption...

Des nombreuses études sur la chaîne d′approvisionnement de médicaments essentiels destinés à l′Afrique font l′hypothèse de la stabilité de l′approvisionnement en médicaments génériques par les producteurs indiens. À partir d′une base de données indienne et d′entretiens,...

High and sustained levels of migration of health professionals from labour-short health services in low-income countries to the health services of rich countries create a perverse subsidy from poor to rich, flowing across national boundaries. This subsidy worsens international inequality, and...