Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Restructuring Health Services - Public Subsidy of Private Provision - Kasturi Sen PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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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The contributors to this volume review the debates about financing health care and its relationship to privatization.

About the Author

DR KASTURI SEN is at the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge. She was born in Calcutta India and moved to the UK in 1971. She has been involved in international public health research and teaching for 20 years. Her previous publications include Ageing - Debates on Demographic Transition and Social Policy (Zed Books 1994). The CONTRIBUTORS are health professionals and scholars based around the world.

Reviews

This book documents many instances of the poor social, medical and economic outcomes of health care privatisation... and exposes this fashionable ideology for the empty science that it is.
*Jean-Pierre Unger, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium*

This is an important book for those wanting to understand what is happening to our health services.
*Maureen Mackintosh, Professor of Economics, the Open University*