Politics and primary care

Primary Care Policy and Politics

Politics, practical logic, and primary health care in rural Haiti.

During the 1980s, an ambitious project for health development restructured medical services throughout rural Haiti. The "Rural Health Delivery System" (RHDS) pursued several goals of primary health care, including dispensary-based maternal and child health services and the provision of low-cost drugs. Based on fieldwork in a single village, this article examines how local residents pushed the p...

Health Care Politics and Policy

This article is a condensed and edited version of a speech delivered to the business of medicine: A Course for Physician Leaders symposium presented by Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Medical Directors Leadership Council at Yale University in November 2012 and drawn from Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays by Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein [1]. It faithfully reflects the maj...

The politics of health care

This article reports the survey results from attendees at a large US health-care conference. Conference attendees were polled on a number of healthcare reform issues along with some basic demographic information. Few signifi cant differences were found based on respondents ’ gender, or surprisingly even whether they were employed in the health-care industry. Rather, the most striking difference...

Intergenerational redistribution, health care and politics

Publicly provided health care implies considerable intergenerational redistribution. The possibility of accumulating a fund or debt will a®ect the degree of redistribution as well as how e±cient the ̄nancing of health care is. In a voting model we study how governments inability to make binding long-term policy commitments will a®ect the accumulation of a fund or debt. Today's government will b...