Transforming health markets in Asia and Africa : improving quality and access for the poor / / edited by Gerald Bloom ... [et al.].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bloom, Gerald.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Pathways to sustainability series
• Physical Description: xvii, 197 p. :; ill.

"Markets for health-related goods and services have spread rapidly in many low and middle-income countries. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services, but it has created problems with safety, efficacy and cost. Making Health Markets Work addresses th...

Table of Contents

• Transition in the Indian healthcare market / Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar
• Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal health care providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Iqbal ... [et al.]
• Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh / M. Hafizur Rahman and Smisha Agarwal
• China's rural hospitals in the transition to a market economy : a case study in two peri-urban counties in Guangxi province / Gerald Bloom ... [et al.]
• Informal markets in sexual and reproductive health services and commodities in rural and urban Bangladesh / Hilary Standing, Sabina Faiz Rashid, and Owasim Akram
• Improving the performance of patent medicine vendors in Nigeria / Oladimeji Oladepo and Henry Lucas
• Yes, they can : peer educators for diabetes in Cambodia / Maurits van Pelt ... [et al.]
• Evidence of the effects of market-based innovations and international initiatives to improve the performance of private providers / Claire Champion, Gerald Bloom, David Peters
• - A review of ICT innovations by private sector providers in developing countries / Henry lucas
• The economics of social franchising for health in low and middle income countries / David Bishai and Claire Champion
• Conclusions : making health markets work better for poor people / Gerald Bloom ... [et al].