Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned … the point of view of health policy- making as little is known about it. The aim of this study was to describe policies and …

specific sub-heads of demographic, educational, health, sociocultural and economic indicators. The main findings are presented …

help to focus its role in responding to the health needs of a post-industrial, globalizing world. [PLoS Medicine, October …

clinic. Cultural factors are crucial to diagnosis, treatment, and care. They shape health-related beliefs, behaviours, and …

Although ‘Primary Health Care’, as outlined in the famous Alma Ata Declaration has been a central concept and … strategy in the field of health care in the late 20th century, it has not found mention in major policy documents. For example …, the National Health Policy 2001 of the Indian government does not even mention the Alma Ata Declaration. This â …

Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing … these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be applied to the health sector? A wider … understanding of the discipline is required if it is to support health sectors, rather than remaining the preserve of a few …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people’s health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands of its poopulalation. Most of this growth … hospital sector, however has not exhibited similar growth though private expenditures on medical and health care in real terms … have grown at 10 per cent per annum. This experience has something to do with the financial health and risks, as these are …

1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1 … answers this question for ten OECD countries -- Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and …