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This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care services have been supported by government funds. As demands for improving health care services continue to increase additional demands will be placed on governments to respond. This, however, will not be easy. Slow economic growth and record budget deficits in the 1980's have forced reductions in public spending. Alternative approaches to finance health care services are needed. Such possible changes could involve: decentralization of federal government involvement; the promotion of nongovernment involvement; the imposition of user fees; and, establishing health insurance. Finally, the role of the Bank in pursuing new financing strategies is discussed.
Raised in a Greek immigrant family amid New Englands industrial decline, Manny Voulgaropoulos wanted to explore exotic places. His ticket to adventure was medical school in Belgium, where he learned how Belgiums colonization of the Congo exploited its indigenous people. His medical training, originally a passport to travel the world, became his means to alleviate suffering of poor and underprivileged people. A serendipitous meeting with Tom Dooley, the Jungle Doctor, brought him to Kratie, Cambodia in 1958 as the Indochina war was brewing. In Kratie Manny was the Great White Doctor treating hundreds every day just as Tom Dooley had done. After repeatedly seeing the same people with the same ...
This report summarize the experience since 2008 of the global efforts coordinated by the World Bank to use National Health Accounts (NHA) to better assess sources and allocation of public, donor and private health expenditures and inform countries' health financing policies.
East Asian and Pacific countries are growing rapidly. They need high quality, well-funded health systems to underpin their population growth and assure continued productivity and economic growth. But countries will need to spend wisely, using modern techniques of insurance and strategic contracting with providers.
Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social policy in the Global South. By analysing these new emerging trends, the book aims to understand how they can contribute to meaningful change and whether they could offer alternative solutions to the social, economic and environmental policy challenges facing low-income countries within a contemporary global context. It pays particular attention to reforms and innovations relating to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the move away from a welfare state, towards a ‘welfare multitude’, in which new actors, such as civil society organisations, play an increasingly important role in social policy.
In mid 2020, IRSA produced a call for papers inviting Indonesian academics to report and analyse issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic at regional level in Indonesia in order to provide regional perspectives on how the pandemic has affected local people, and how local people responded to this treat and what policy gaps seen from the regions. Thirty-five academics responded to this call, resulting in these 15 selected chapters for this book. These chapters deal with inter-regions as well as specific region analysis. The specific region analyses cover from issues in large cities such as Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Manado to those in remote areas such as Tual islands, border areas of West Kalimantan and Papua. The COVID-19 related issues in this book are rich, as they also include the issues of regional election, people mobilities, social capital, poverty and food prices. For all the readers of this book: happy reading. Hope you learn more about Indonesia and its COVID-19 related issues.
Les conceptions et les politiques en matière de financement de la santé dans les pays à faible revenu s'articulent autour de paradigmes successivement dominants dans les approches des gouvernements et de leurs partenaires extérieurs : la gratuité des soins de base et " la santé pour tous " dans la lignée de la conférence d'Alma Ata, tout d'abord ; la contribution financière des usagers (" recouvrement des coûts ") à partir de la seconde moitié des années quatre-vingt. Plus récemment, l'accent a été mis sur le développement de mécanismes assuranciels, tout en approfondissant et en reconsidérant la réflexion sur la gratuité des soins et sur la participation financière des...
Jika kau bertanya arti kesetiaan, aku tak bisa menjelaskannya dengan kata-kata. Jika kau bertanya apa makna kesendirian, tanpa harus merasa sepi, aku pun tak sanggup memaparkannya. Jika kau bingung menemukan di mana bahu dan telinga terbaik untuk tiap keluh kesahmu, aku pun tak punya petanya. Ke sinilah sebentar, kita teguk dua gelas teh hangat ini, di atas lantai merpati. Agar kelak jika aku pergi, kau tak takut lagi akan sepi. Kisah laki-laki paling setia. Tiap langkah, ucapan, tatap dan tindakannya, bak kemegahan perhiasan tiada tara. Novel Setia J.S. Khairen