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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Future Health Systems</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Edited by Gerald Bloom and Hilary Standing</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Social Science & Medicine - Volume 66, Issue 10, Pages 2067-2184 (May 2008)</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"…The purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate innovative thinking about health system development in low-income and transition countries. We believe that informed and engaged debate about this topic is greatly needed because we are approaching a period of major change in global health systems. In this introduction, we set out why future health systems will probably look very different and why it is particularly important to explore the possibilities now…."</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"….Health systems in most parts of the world continue to be organised in ways that were essentially set in the early part of the 20th century in a few countries. In many low-income and transition countries, there is an increasing disconnection between these organisational forms and realities on the ground, yet debates and reform agendas concerning health systems largely proceed on a "business as usual" basis.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health policy has tended to export models of how health systems should operate from the advanced market economies to low-income and transitional countries with little questioning of their appropriateness and adaptability.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This Special Issue has been compiled partly in response to dissatisfaction with the ideologically over-determined nature of some of the debate about health system development in low and middle-income countries. This often does not address the real situation. For example, debates about the roles of public and private providers have quite a different meaning in countries without the institutional framework to govern a market economy and where government has little capacity to regulate providers of health services. The lack of appropriately contextualised debate and language hampers national and international efforts to address major health challenges.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health systems are social and political artefacts and can be organised differently.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health systems, like other systems of producing social goods, are ways of producing and organising access to expert knowledge and the technologies that derive from it. There is nothing immutable about the way they are organised. Their failure, in many contexts, to serve the interests of the poor means we should also be exploring different ways of producing and delivering services rather than simply intensifying efforts to recreate existing ones</span></font></p>
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