Millennium Development Goals and Community Initiatives in the Asia Pacific

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Millennium Development Goals and Community Initiatives in the Asia Pacific; Preface; Editorial Team; Contents; About NAPSIPAG; Contributors' Biography; Chapter 1: Tracking Implementation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Narrowing Disparities via the New Economic Model (NEM): Is Malaysia Set to Excel Beyond Its MDGs Targets MDGs; Introduction; Inequality in Malaysia; The Need for an Integrated Framework; NEM and Inequality: Narrowing Disparities; The NEM, MDGs and Inequality in Malaysia; MDG1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

MDG 4, 5 and 6: Health-Reducing Child Mortality, Improve Maternal Health and Combating HIV/AIDS and Other DiseasesCapacity Building: Access to Quality Education and Gender Equality; Gender Inequality; Education: The Gender Trap; Labour Force Participation Rates (LFPR); Gender and the Distribution of Employment; Gender and Wage Differentials; Gender and Unemployment; Uplifting the Bottom 40%: Housing and Market-Friendly Affirmative Action; Housing and Income; Conclusion: The Road Ahead; A Select Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Scaling-Up Process and Health MDGs in the Philippines

Introduction and BackgroundFramework of Analysis; Philippines MDG: Scale by Administration; Local Initiatives: Scale by Expansion; Implications and Lessons Learned; Convergence by Focusing Down: "Embedding" Initiatives in Decentralized Structures; Convergence by Replicating Conditions for Change, Not Elements of Health Program; Going to Scale: The Critical Requisites; Summing Up; References; Chapter 4: Healthcare Governance and Climate Change Adaptation: A Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective; Introduction; Climate Change Adaptation for Business Sectors

Climate Change and Its Impact on Health and the Pharmaceutical IndustryClimate Change Adaptation for Pharmaceutical Industry from a Health Governance Perspective; The Framework and Implications; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Reaching the 7th Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on Environmental Sustainability: The South Asian Response; Introduction; Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Summit on Environment and Human Security; South Asian Response; SAARC Common Position in UN Conference of Parties (COP4); SAARC Year of the Green South Asia: 2007

Sixteenth SAARC Summit: Green and Happy South AsiaSouth Asian Response: Critical Appraisal; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Interrogating the PPP Model in Health-Care Insurance; Introduction; Post-Independence Initiatives; Financing of Health Care in India; Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY); Who Are the Stakeholders?; State Governments; Insurance Companies; The Health-Care Providers; The Beneficiaries; Incentivizing in RSBY: Why Does It Work?; RSBY's Expected Outcomes; Challenges and Problems of RSBY; Worries Regarding RSBY; Health Sector Reforms, Model States and RSBY; The Kerala Model and RSBY

Health Sector Reforms and the Tamil Nadu Model

Tracking Implementation -- Narrowing Disparities via the New Economic Model (NEM): Is Malaysia Set to Excel Beyond its MDGs Targets -- The Scaling-up Process and Health MDGs in the Philippines -- Healthcare Governance and Climate Change Adaptation: A Pharmaceutical Industry -- Reaching the 7th Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on Environmental Sustainability: The South Asian Response -- Interrogating the PPP Model in Health Care Insurance -- Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojna (RSBY): Panacea for the poor -- Local Innovations in Service Delivery: Gender- Responsive Budgeting in Davao City, Philippines -- Women Empowerment Through LLP in Southern Philippines -- Revisiting the Role of Universities in Achieving MDGs -- Community- University Partnerships for Improved Governance -- Determinants of Managerial Innovation in the State University Administration in Sri Lanka -- Regulatory Mapping in Local Governance and The Economic Governance Index in Sri Lanka -- Benefits and Challenges of E-Governance for Service Delivery in Nepal -- E-Leadership for E-Government in Indonesia -- Impact of NGCSOs in Developing Capability of the Low-Income People in South Australia -- From Reinvention to Communitization: The Himalayan Indian State of Nagaland Shows the Way -- Reaching out to the People: The Role of Leikai-Club in the State of Manipur (India) in Achieving the MDGs -- EPILOGUE : Thinking About Reaching Out: Analytical Approaches To Develop Feasible Projects.

10.1007/978-81-322-0760-3 [DOI]

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