PHA-Exch> New publication: id21 insights #76 'Making health markets work for poor people', March 2009

[Anna Thompson]

Hello,

Please find below a brief introduction and links to where you can read our latest issue of id21 insights on Making health markets work for poor people.
If possible please could you feature it in any of your upcoming news bulletins.

Kind regards,
Anna


        Making health markets work for poor people
id21 insights #76
March 2009

Read online<http://www.id21.org/insights/insights76/index.html>
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In many countries people use a wide variety of market based providers of health-related goods and services ranging from highly organised and regulated hospitals and specialist doctors to informal health workers and drug sellers operating outside the legal framework. The boundary between public and private sectors is often very porous, with people either paying government health workers informally or consulting them outside their official hours. Unregulated markets, in particular, raise problems in terms of safety, efficacy and cost.

Understanding health markets and improving system performance is central to accelerating action to scale-up coverage and use of health services and deliver improved outcomes against the health-related MDGs and universal access commitments.

The latest (newly redesigned) edition of id21 insights 76, 'Making Health Markets Work for Poor People', March 2009, is now available for free:
>       to read online www.id21.org/insights/insights76/index.html<http://www.id21.org/insights/insights76/index.html>
>       to download PDF www.id21.org/insights/insights76/insights76.pdf<http://www.id21.org/insights/insights76/insights76.pdf>

Produced in collaboration with the Future Health Systems<http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/> research programme, this edition is guest edited by Hilary Standing and Gerry Bloom, Institute of Development of Studies (IDS), UK, with academic advice provided by Barbara McPake, Institute of International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. This issue addresses different aspects of markets for health-related goods and services and emerging approaches for improving their performance. It includes articles that focus on:
*  The growing burden of chronic disease and new markets for health-related goods and services.
*  The development of retail pharmacy chains and the potential role of this kind of private sector arrangement for exerting positive influence over quality and price.
*  How social entrepreneurship has developed a simple model for making eyeglasses widely available to people in India.
*  Strategies from Bangladesh, India and Nigeria to improve informal provider performance, including the potential roles of associations of providers and citizen
groups for monitoring performance.
*  Opportunities and challenges associated with new information and communication technologies and the proliferation of channels of information and organisations producing health-related content.
*  How health insurance can catalyse improvements in provider behaviour by establishing a secure source of funding and exercising the powers associated with strategic purchasing.

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Anna Thompson
id21 Programme Assistant
Acting Health and Development Information Team
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