The world bank, health policy reforms and the poor

Bibliographic Data

ID3985367
AuthorsMohammed Nuruzzaman (0000-0002-1815-4273, Okanagan College, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume37
Issue1
Pages59-72
Publication date2007-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472330601104599
OpenAlexW2091028451
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited11

Over the years, since the mid-1990s, World Bank-prescribed health policy reforms have successfully introduced market-based private-managed healthcare model in the developing world. This article presents a portrait of the private healthcare model, explores the factors that facilitated the introduction of this model in developing countries and examines the impact of the model on the health rights and health conditions of the poor. It argues that health reforms designed to promote private-managed care in developing countries affect the poor severely and violate their basic health rights, the rights to stay disease-free and lead a healthy life. A host of factors produced by the private-managed care model, most notably reduced social spending on public health, dismantling of public health systems and the ever expansionary grip of private sector health services have effectively diminished the health rights of the poor

Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Political science · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Healthcare Systems and Reforms

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