International Health and Aid Policies: The Need for Alternatives (Cambridge Medicine (Paperback))
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/23/2010
EAN 9780521174268, ISBN10: 0521174260
Paperback, 314 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to restricted access to family medicine and hospital care. Presenting detailed evidence, and illustrated by case studies, this book describes how international health policies to date have largely resulted in expensive health care for the rich, and disjointed and ineffective services for the poor. As a result, large segments of the population world-wide continue to suffer from unnecessary casualties, pain and impoverishment. International Health and Aid Policies arms health professionals, researchers and policy makers with strategies that will enable them to bridge the gaps between public health, medicine and health policy in order to support robust, comprehensive and accessible health care systems in any political environment.
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.