International Health and Aid Policies: The Need for Alternatives (Cambridge Medicine (Paperback)) - Softcover

Unger, Jean-Pierre; De Paepe, Pierre; Sen, Kasturi; Soors, Werner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521174260 ISBN 13: 9780521174268

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to restricted access to family medicine and hospital care. Presenting detailed evidence, and illustrated by case studies, this book describes how international health policies to date have largely resulted in expensive health care for the rich, and disjointed and ineffective services for the poor. As a result, large segments of the population world-wide continue to suffer from unnecessary casualties, pain and impoverishment. International Health and Aid Policies arms health professionals, researchers and policy makers with strategies that will enable them to bridge the gaps between public health, medicine and health policy in order to support robust, comprehensive and accessible health care systems in any political environment.

About this title

Book Description:

Based around a series of international case studies, this book illustrates how recent health and aid policies have often failed in their aims. It offers strategies for health care professionals to campaign for quality, discretionary health care systems, accessible to all.

About the Author:

Jean-Pierre Unger is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the MPH programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521174260
• ISBN 13: 9780521174268
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314