Health Sector Reform: Time to Introspect

Health sector reform.

No one is too clear about the underlying goals of health sector reforms. The cynical may detect a neo-liberal free market agenda in the rhetoric that emanates from the World Bank’s health report of 1993, but even the cynical need to deal with the issues that health reforms throw up. More recently the Bank itself has recognised the failures of the market approach in health care and argued for a ...

Introduction to Health Sector Reform in China

One of China's great successes during the period of the command economy was to provide a large majority of its population with access to basic health services at an affordable price. This contributed to major improvements in the life of rural people. This issue of the IDS Bulletin asks whether China will be able to maintain cost-effective rural health services as it transforms itself into a mar...

health sector reform in view

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Corruption in medical education: time to introspect.

Health sector reform in Pakistan: future directions.

The health care system in Pakistan is beset with numerous problems--structural fragmentation, gender insensitivity, resource scarcity, inefficiency and lack of functional specificity and accessibility. Faced with a precarious economic situation characterized by heavy external debt and faltering productivity, Pakistan's room to maneuver with health sector reform is quite limited. Although the re...