The Challenge of Health Sector Reform: What Must Governments Do?

by Steve Russell, Anne Mills, Sara Bennett

New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333736184
• ISBN13: 9780333736180
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"