Global health scholarship has failed to adequately consider the “BRIC” cluster of nations - Brazil, Russia, India and … China - particularly in the aggregate. An article search with the keywords “BRIC” and “public health” yields just one … publication. But these countries have a unique role to play in the global health enterprise by addressing global health problems …

and central Asia have diverged, including the way they have reformed the financing of their health systems. This book … analyses this rich experience in a systematic way. It reviews the background to health financing systems and reform in these … or evaluating health financing policies in the region, the authors offer important lessons, as well as pitfalls to avoid …

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Selected socio-economic aspects of post-communist health care transition … -- Chapter 3: Transformation of hospital governance in post-Semashko health systems -- Chapter 4: Economic implications of …