Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies Opportunities and Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yi, Ilcheong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Social Policy in a Development Context
• Subjects: Health care management.; Health services administration.; Public health.; Welfare economics.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Economics.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Health Care Management.; Public Health.

This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right....