
Overview
- Summarizes policy-relevant findings from the experience of eight emerging economies in their attempts to implement health care reform
- Highlights the impact politics, institutions and policies have on providing universal health care
- Provides analysis of eight selected countries at different stages of universalization in their health sectors
Part of the book series: Social Policy in a Development Context (SPDC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Analyzing Common Pressures and Diverse Social Policy Responses
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Moving Towards Universal Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges
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Obstacles to Moving Towards Universal Health Care
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ilcheong Yi is Research Coordinator at UNRISD. Born in the Republic of Korea, he was trained as both a political scientist and social policy analyst. He specializes in the issues of poverty, social policy, labour policy and historical analysis of the economic and social development process.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies
Book Subtitle: Opportunities and Challenges
Editors: Ilcheong Yi
Series Title: Social Policy in a Development Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53376-0Published: 09 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53377-7Published: 28 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-6659
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6667
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 421
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Policy, Economic Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Health Care Management, Public Health