Book Review: Alexandra Kaasch, Shaping Global Health Policy: Global Social Policy Actors and Ideas About Health Care Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Andreas Ochs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Global Health Policy ◽  
Care Systems

scholarly journals NGOs, partnerships, and public-private discontent in Nepal’s health care sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agya Mahat ◽  
David Citrin ◽  
Hima Bista
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Public Sector Health ◽  
Blind Spots

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly popular models of collaboration in the global health arena to deliver, scale, and evaluate health care services. While many of these initiatives are multicountry, large-scale partnerships, smaller NGOs play increasingly central roles in new forms of privatization. This article draws on our collective experiences working in a PPP between the nongovernmental organization Possible and the Ministry of Health in Nepal to ethnographically examine the fragile and contested nature of these arrangements in the Nepali context, amidst an increasingly privatized health care landscape that is resulting in widespread discontent and distrust throughout the country, as well as financial hardship. We discuss the Possible PPP as one approach that simultaneously seeks to strengthen public-sector health care systems, yet still taps into some of the promises, anxieties, and blind spots – such as the broader social determinants of health – inherent in new forms of public-private global health work.

scholarly journals From heterogeneity to harmonization? Recent trends in European health policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. S133-S142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Gerlinger ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Urban
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
European Health ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Eu

In the European Union (EU), health policy and the institutional reform of health systems have been treated primarily as national affairs, and health care systems within the EU thus differ considerably. However, the health policy field is undergoing a dynamic process of Europeanization. This process is stimulated by the orientation towards a more competitive economy, recently inaugurated and known as the Lisbon Strategy, while the regulatory requirements of the European Economic and Monetary Union are stimulating the Europeanization of health policy. In addition, the so-called open method of coordination, representing a new mode of regulation within the European multi-level system, is applied increasingly to the health policy area. Diverse trends are thus emerging. While the Lisbon Strategy goes along with a strategic upgrading of health policy more generally, health policy is increasingly used to strengthen economic competitiveness. Pressure on Member States is expected to increase to contain costs and promote market-based health care provision.

Comprehensive Versus Selective Primary Health Care: Lessons For Global Health Policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Magnussen ◽  
John Ehiri ◽  
Pauline Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Global Health Policy

Managing Change in the Context of Health Reform: Lessons from Alberta

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann L. Casebeer ◽  
Kathryn J. Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Policy Shift ◽  
Care System

A qualitative field study of health system reform in Alberta was undertaken to identify, describe, compare and contrast the processes of change management adopted and implemented as a result of legislated health policy shift. Chairs and chief executives of the new regional health authorities and provincial leaders managing the change processes within Alberta's health care system were interviewed. Components of change strategies important to the structure, process and impact of the health policy shift to a regionalized system of care were identified and analyzed. Stakeholders involved in managing change inside Alberta's health care system were able to consistently identify a range of issues important to beginning and sustaining health policy shift. These issues and insights did not come from the literature, but rather from experience. To test and share this experience further, it will be important to study more consciously the management of change in relation to expected outcomes. With so many natural experiments altering health care systems across Canada and beyond, a window of opportunity exists for researching both the quality and quantity of such change, comparing and sharing findings over time and, eventually, linking process to outcome.

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