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Making health markets work better for poor people
Markets for health-related goods and services are widespread. In many developing countries poor people seek some proportion of their health care in these markets.
Understanding health markets and how they expand or contract access to quality health services for the poor is central to many other aspects of health system strengthening. It can assist us in: improving regulatory and policy frameworks, ensuring health care providers are appropriately trained and supported to provide appropriate care, ensuring oversight from informed service users and ensuring financial support mechanisms to enhance service access for the poorest.
What's new!
Bloom, G, Champion C,Lucas H, Rahman MH, Bhuiya A, Oladepo O and Peters D. 2008. Health markets and future
health systems: innovation
for equity (pdf) Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5
A meeting was held in Dhaka from August 24-26, 2008 organised by ICDDR,B and the Institute of Development Studies. The purpose of the meeting was to:
- contribute to the development of a framework for understanding alternative approaches for making health-related markets work better for poor people
- build greater understanding of existing and proposed innovations in highly marketised health systems in Bangladesh and other Asian countries
- establish a programme to facilitate a learning approach for improving the capacity of highly marketized health systems to meet health-related needs of the poor.
Coming soon!
Bloom G, Champion C, Lucas H, Peters D and Standing H (2008) Making Health Markets Work Better for Poor People: Improving Provider Performance
We are planning a meeting in Nigeria on this topic in January 2009.
Further reading:
Bloom, G, Champion C,Lucas H, Rahman MH, Bhuiya A, Oladepo O and Peters D. 2008. Health markets and future
health systems: innovation
for equity (pdf) Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5
Bishai DM, Shah NM, Walker DG, Brieger WR, Peters DH. Social Franchising to Improve Quality and Access in Private Health Care in Developing Countries. Harvard Health Policy Review. Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2008: 184-197
Bloom, G. , Kanjilal B, Peters, DH. Regulating Health Care Markets in China and India. Health Affairs. 2008; Vol 27, No 4: 952-963
Oladepo O, Kabiru S, Adeoye B W, Oshiname F, Ofi B, Oladepo M, Ogungbemi O, Brieger W R, Bloom G, and Peters D H, with input from Professor Adetokunbo Lucas. Malaria Treatment in Nigeria: The Role of Patent Medicine Vendors. (pdf) Innovations and knowledge for future health systems for the poor, Policy Brief March 2008 · No: 01
Kanjilal B, Mondal S, Samantha T, Mondal A, Singh S. A Parallel Health Care Market: Rural Medical Practitioners in West Bengal, India. (pdf) Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India, June 2007
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