International aid policy

Public Disease Control and Private Curative Care

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5226899
AutoresPierre De Paepe (Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde), Werner Soors (Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde), Jean-Pierre Unger (0000-0001-5152-6545, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde)
Año2007
Volumen23
Númerosuppl 2
PáginasS273-S281
Fecha de publicación2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-311x2007001400016
PMID17625653
OpenAlexW2105306799
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2007001400016
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas30

Integrating disease control with health care delivery increases the prospects for successful disease control. This paper examines whether current international aid policy tends to allocate disease control and curative care to different sectors, preventing such integration. Typically, disease control has been conceptualized in vertical programs. This changed with the Alma Ata vision of comprehensive care, but was soon encouraged again by the Selective Primary Health Care concept. Documents are analyzed from the most influential actors in the field, e.g. World Health Organization, World Bank, and European Union. These agencies do indeed have a doctrine on international aid policy: to allocate disease control to the public sector and curative health care to the private sector, wherever possible. We examine whether there is evidence to support such a doctrine. Arguments justifying integration are discussed, as well as those that critically analyze the consequences of non-integration. Answers are sought to the crucial question of why important stakeholders continue to insist on separating disease control from curative care. We finally make a recommendation for all international actors to address health care and disease control together, from a systems perspective

Business · Control (management) · Disease · Doctrine · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · International health · Management · Political science · Private sector · Public economics · Public health · Public relations · Public sector · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration · Health Policy