Restructuring Health Services: Changing Contexts and Comparative Perspectives

Abstract

* 1. Introduction: Restructuring Health Services - Public Subsidy of Private Provision * Kasturi Sen * Part 1: Conceptual and Legislative framework * 2. Restructuring Health Services and the Politics of Privatisation - An Overview of * Experience * Kasturi Sen * 3. Trading Health Care Away: The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services * (GATS) * Sarah Sexton * 4. Ethics and Medical Care in a Globalising World: Some Reflections * Imrana Qadeer * Part 2: The Process of Change * 5. Assessing Health Systems Performance: A Critical Appraisal of the WHO World * Health Report 2000 * Claudia Travassos * 6. Multinational Corporations and the Pattern of Privatisation in Health Care * David Hall * 7. Health Systems Solidarity and European Community Policies * Meri Koivusalo * Part 3: Case studies of Restructuring: Comparative Perspectives * 8. The Impact of Social Health Insurance Reform on Social Solidarity in Four European * Countries * Hans Maarse and Aggie Paulus * 9. Restructuring Health Services in Italy: The Paradox of Devolution * Francesco Taroni * 10. Global Capital and Health Care Reform: The Experience of the UK * Jean Shaoul * 11. The Trouble with Conservative Health Care Counter Reforms in Spain * M. Sanchez Bayle and Hixinio Beiras * 12. The Sad Experience of Corporate Health Care in the USA * Steffie Woolhandler * 13. Transformation of the Cuban Health Sector: The Past Forty Years * Felix. J. Sanso Soberats * 14. The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms in Malaysia * Chan Chee Khoon * 15. Implementing Universal Health Care Coverage in Thailand * Sanguan Nitayarumphong and Supasit Pannarunothai * 16. The Role of the State in the Privatisation and Corporatisation of Medical Care in Andhra Pradesh, India * K.V. Narayana

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