Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies

1. Front Matter

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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

5. Obstacles to Moving Towards Universal Health Care

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Constraints on Universal Health Care in the Russian Federation: Inequality, Informality and the Failures of Mandatory Health Insurance Reforms

      • Linda J. Cook

      Pages 269-296

   3. The Fragmented Social Protection System in India: Five Key Rights but Two Missing

      • Santosh Mehrotra, Neha Kumra, Ankita Gandhi

      Pages 297-319

   4. The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa: The Role of Ideas, Actors and Institutions

      • Rebecca Surender

      Pages 321-346

   5. Social Policy in Venezuela: Bucking Neoliberalism or Unsustainable Clientelism?

      • Julia Buxton

      Pages 347-371

   6. Expanding Social Security in Indonesia: The Current Processes and Challenges

      • Asep Suryahadi, Vita Febriany, Athia Yumna

      Pages 373-403

6. Back Matter

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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.

• Social policy
• Public health
• Universalism
• Health care
• Care delivery
• Emerging economies
• Welfare state
• Neoliberalism

• UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland

  Ilcheong Yi

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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