<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">,Subject: UNRISD research on commercialisation of health<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PHM Global Secretariat</b> <<a href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank">secretariat@phmovement.org</a>><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">UNRISD Research and
Policy Brief 7</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#008495;font-family:Arial">UNRISD Research on
Commercialization of Health Care, 2003–2005</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">This Research and
Policy Brief summarizes findings from two UNRISD projects:</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">Commercialization of
Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy Responses</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">, and the
health-related research for a broader project, <i>The Social Challenge of
Development: Globalization and Inequality.</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">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. </span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">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. </span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">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.</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">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.</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#231f20;font-family:Arial">Read the full paper
at <a href="http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/7C04740AD2852A4AC12573E6002E24DC?OpenDocument" target="_blank">http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/7C04740AD2852A4AC12573E6002E24DC?OpenDocument</a></span></p>
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