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Health care reforms and developing countries—a critical overview
Author(s) -
Sen Kasturi,
Koivusalo Meri
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1751(1998070)13:3<199::aid-hpm518>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - developing country , ideology , health care , politics , health policy , political science , health care reform , component (thermodynamics) , economic growth , development economics , public economics , economics , law , physics , thermodynamics
Although health care reforms have been implemented in both developed and developing countries since the 1980s, there has been little discussion of the historical, social and political contexts in which such reforms have taken place. Health care reforms in developing countries, for instance, have been an integral component of structural adjustment policies, yet scant attention has been paid to these connections nor to their implications. The basic assumptions behind the reforms, and in particular, the ideological underpinnings of health care reorganization, need to be taken into account when considering long‐term strategies and policies to provide health services in developing countries.Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.