Title:	Commercialization of Health Care
Authors:	Maureen Mackintosh and Meri Koivusalo
Keywords:	Medical Care“Marketing
Issue Date:	2005
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book brings together closely argued and summarized results from most of the research undertaken for the project. The researchers as a group intend to create a better understanding of the extent of commercialization that has been occurring in health care, its implications, and effective and ineffective policy responses. The research examines the interconnections between global and local commercialization processes, with the intention of empowering policy-makers to tackle the challenge of creating inclusive, integrated health systems in this context. Inclusive, decent, effective health care cannot be created without a democratically informed policy focus on how commercialization should be managed, framed and limited for public benefit – a far more demanding agenda than most discussions of ‘regulation’ of the sector currently allow. The authors aim to influence the ‘common sense’ of health policy towards a better policy framework that is rooted in a public commitment to integrated, effective and inclusive health systems. The papers in this volume were presented at a conference in Helsinki, Finland in March 2004. UNRISD would like to take this opportunity to thank the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) for hosting this conference. UNRISD is grateful to the Government of Finland, the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) for their financial support to this component of the project. As is the case with all UNRISD projects, work on the Social Policy in a Development Context project would not have been possible without the core funding provided by the governments of Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Let me once again take this opportunity to express our gratitude.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55104
ISBN:	9781403943491
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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