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Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies

Opportunities and Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Ilcheong Yi

    1. UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland

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  • Summarizes policy-relevant findings from the experience of eight emerging economies in their attempts to implement health care reform
  • Highlights the impact politics, institutions and policies have on providing universal health care
  • Provides analysis of eight selected countries at different stages of universalization in their health sectors

Part of the book series: Social Policy in a Development Context (SPDC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Introduction: The Universalization of Health Care in Emerging Economies

    • Ilcheong Yi, Elizabeth Koechlein, Armando de Negri Filho
    Pages 1-26

  3. Analyzing Common Pressures and Diverse Social Policy Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

      • Ben Fine
      Pages 29-59

    3. Universalism and Health: The Battle of Ideas

      • Susanne MacGregor
      Pages 61-88

  4. Moving Towards Universal Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Politics of Health Care Reform in Thailand

      • Erik Martinez Kuhonta
      Pages 91-118

    3. The Impacts of Universalization: A Case Study on Thailand’s Social Protection and Universal Health Coverage

      • Prapaporn Tivayanond Mongkhonvanit, Piya Hanvoravongchai
      Pages 119-154

    4. Political and Institutional Drivers of Social Security Universalization in Brazil

      • Marcus André Melo
      Pages 155-179

    5. Universalizing Health Care in Brazil: Opportunities and Challenges

      • Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana, Hudson Pacífico da Silva, Ilcheong Yi
      Pages 181-211

    6. What Kind of Welfare State Is Emerging in China?

      • Stein Ringen, Kinglun Ngok
      Pages 213-237

    7. China’s Universal Health Care Coverage

      • William Hsiao, Mingqiang Li, Shufang Zhang
      Pages 239-266

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 405-421
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About this book

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right. The following two parts go on to discuss the opportunities and challenges of achieving universal health care in Thailand, Brazil and China, and survey the obstacles facing India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa and Venezuela in the reform of their health care systems. The evolution of social policy systems and the cases in this volume together demonstrate that universalism in health care is continuously redefined by the interactions between diverse political forces and through specific policy processes. At a time when international and national-level discourse around health systems has once again brought universalism to the fore, this edited collection offers a timely contribution to the field in its thorough analysis of health care reform in emerging economies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland

    Ilcheong Yi

About the editor

Ilcheong Yi is Research Coordinator at UNRISD. Born in the Republic of Korea, he was trained as both a political scientist and social policy analyst. He specializes in the issues of poverty, social policy, labour policy and historical analysis of the economic and social development process.

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