Rama V. Baru, Madhurima Nundy

Commercialisation of Medical Care in China (eBook, PDF)

Changing Landscapes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the changing landscapes of commercialisation of medical care in China. First work of its kind, it discusses how the rise of market socialism, coupled with de-collectivisation of agriculture and autonomisation of hospitals in rural and urban China, have fragmented the health service system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000694819
• Artikelnr.: 57603791

Autorenporträt

Rama V. Baru is Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Honorary Fellow with the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, India. Her major areas of research interest include commercialisation of health services, infectious diseases, comparative health systems and health inequalities. She is the author of three books: Private Health Care in India: Social Characteristics and Trends (1998); School Health Services in India: The Social and Economic Contexts (2008); and Medical Insurance Schemes for the Poor: Who Benefits (2015). Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume (with Anuj Kapilashrami) titled Global Health Governance and Commercialisation in India: Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local (2018). She has contributed to many edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Technical Appraisal Committee for Health Technology Assessment, the Department of Health Research, the Ministry of Health, the Government of India and the Scientific Advisory Group, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

Madhurima Nundy is Assistant Director and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi, India. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her MPhil from the same Centre. Before joining the ICS she was the Senior Programme Coordinator at the Public Health Resource Network and has been a Technical Consultant with the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Her areas of interest include health service systems, health policies and inequalities in health. She has contributed to chapters in edited volumes and has edited a monograph entitled Challenges to Health Service Systems: India and China (2017). She has published in several journals and has been a regular contributor to policy analysis in the area of public health on China and India.