PHA-Exch> UNRISD research on commercialisation of health

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: PHM Global Secretariat <secretariat at phmovement.org>

*UNRISD Research and Policy Brief 7*

*UNRISD Research on Commercialization of Health Care, 2003–2005*

This Research and Policy Brief summarizes findings from two UNRISD projects:

*Commercialization of Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy
Responses*, and the health-related research for a broader project, *The
Social Challenge of Development: Globalization and Inequality.*

These interlinked projects brought together researchers from 20 mainly
developing and transitional countries to undertake primary research on the
extent and differentiated nature of health care commercialization and
globalization, its implications for access and inequality, and the scope for
effective policy responses to create inclusive, effective and accountable
health systems.

Within these themes, topics included the strategies of multinational
companies and the health implications of global industrial regulation; the
impact of transnationalization of health care corporations on middle-income
country health systems; commercialization of the public sector of health
care itself and its consequences; international migration of health care
staff; public- private interactions and health equity; and experiences of
universalization of care in commercializing health systems.

Primary research was undertaken in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China,
Ghana, India, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, the
Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, the
United States and Viet Nam.

The projects demonstrated that economists and health policy experts can work
effectively together within a conceptual framework that treats
commercialization of health care as a process to be judged on its merits,
rather than a premise on which health policy is built.

Read the full paper at
http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/7C04740AD2852A4AC12573E6002E24DC?OpenDocument
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