<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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