TY - BOOK ID - 15802724 TI - Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies : Opportunities and Challenges AU - Yi, Ilcheong. AU - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development PY - 2017 SN - 1137533773 1137533765 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Health care management. KW - Health services administration. KW - Public health. KW - Welfare economics. KW - Economic policy. KW - Social policy. KW - Economics. KW - Social Policy. KW - Economic Policy. KW - Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice. KW - Health Care Management. KW - Public Health. KW - Medical policy KW - Health care reform KW - Health reform KW - Health system reform KW - Healthcare reform KW - Medical care reform KW - Reform of health care delivery KW - Reform of medical care delivery KW - Health insurance KW - Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Social policy KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Family policy KW - Social history KW - Health administration KW - Health care administration KW - Health care management KW - Health sciences administration KW - Health services management KW - Medical care KW - Health planning KW - Public health administration KW - Administration KW - Management KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15802724 AB - 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. The following two parts go on to discuss the opportunities and challenges of achieving universal health care in Thailand, Brazil and China, and survey the obstacles facing India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa and Venezuela in the reform of their health care systems. The evolution of social policy systems and the cases in this volume together demonstrate that universalism in health care is continuously redefined by the interactions between diverse political forces and through specific policy processes. At a time when international and national-level discourse around health systems has once again brought universalism to the fore, this edited collection offers a timely contribution to the field in its thorough analysis of health care reform in emerging economies. ER -