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Document Type: | Book |
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Joseph Harris |
ISBN: | 9781501709975 1501709976 9781501709968 1501709968 9781501714740 1501714740 |
OCLC Number: | 1005915841 |
Description: | xiv, 268 Seiten |
Series Title: | The culture and politics of health care work |
Responsibility: | Joseph Harris |
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"Through an in-depth analysis of three countries from different continents, this excellent book deepens scholarly understanding of the health care improvements resulting from democratization. In an innovative twist, Joseph Harris highlights how heightened political competition empowers progressive professional movements, which manage to promote poor people's medical needs and interests against considerable resistance." -- Kurt Weyland, author of <I>Making Waves</I> "Joseph Harris has written a masterful account about achieving access to health services and to AIDS medications in three countries-Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa. His book explains both successes and failures in six case studies. He focuses attention on a new idea: the critical role of professional movements in driving policy reforms to expand access. The book offers both theoretical and practical lessons, and will be welcomed by policymakers, academics, and activists. It is an important and readable addition to the literature on achieving access." -- Michael R. Reich, coauthor of <I>Getting Health Reform Right</I> "The excellent Achieving Access is very timely, and it helps us understand how specific policies came about (or didn't) in Brazil, Thailand and South Africa. The reader feels intimately connected to the events that Joseph Harris describes. This is not just an account of lawyers and doctors, but of individual people." -- Joseph Wong, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, author of <I>Betting on Biotech</I> Read more...


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