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Informationen zum Autor Jean-Pierre Unger is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the MPH programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Pierre De Paepe is a researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Kasturi Sen is a social scientist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Werner Soors is a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Klappentext Using international case studies to critique recent health and aid policies, this book presents strategies to create fairer health services. Zusammenfassung Based around a series of international case studies! this book illustrates how recent health and aid policies have often failed in their aims. It offers strategies for health care professionals to campaign for quality! discretionary health care systems! accessible to all. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: overview and purpose; Part I. Aspects of International Health Policies: 1. Donor led policies: analysis of an underlying doctrine; 2. The Achilles heel of international health policies in low and middle income countries; Part II. The Failure of the Aid Paradigm: Poor Disease Control in Developing Countries: 3. Why do disease control programs require patients in publicly-oriented services to succeed in delivering? The case of malaria control in Mali; 4. How do disease control programs damage health care delivery in developing countries?; 5. Privatization (PPM-DOTS) strategy for tuberculosis control: how evidence based is it?; Part III. International Health Policies and their Impact on Access to Health Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: Some Recent Experiences from Latin America: 6. Costa Rica: achievements of a heterodox health policy; 7. Colombia: in-vivo test of health sector privatization; 8. Chile's neo liberal health reforms: an assessment and a critique; Part IV. Determinants and Implications of New Liberal Health Policies: the Case of India, China and the Lebanon: 9. Political and economic determinants of health: the case of India; 10. An economic insight into health care in six Chinese counties: equity in crisis; 11. Health care financing and delivery in the context of conflict and crisis: the Lebanon; Part V. Principles for Publicly-Oriented Health Care Policies, Planning, Management and Delivery: 12. Paradigm shifts; Section 1. The need to alter health systems missions; Section 2. The need to change public health methods; 13. Principles for an alternative social and democratic health policy; 14. Quality standards for health care delivery and management in publicly-oriented health services; 15. Principles of publicly-oriented health planning; 16. A code of good practice for the management of disease control programs; Part VI. Strategies to Develop Publicly-Oriented Health Systems and Services: 17. Person-centered care in LIC/MIC publicly-oriented services; 18. Improving access; Section 1. Access to health care (Ecuador); Section 2. Access to drugs (Senegal); 19. Non-managed care techniques to improve clinical decision making; Section 1. Versatile techniques; Section 2. Interface flow-process audit; 20. Reorienting academic missions: how can public health departments best support access to good quality comprehensive health care?; Conclusion....
