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Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Service industry --- Medical economics --- Developing Countries --- Economics, Hospital --- Economics, Medical --- Public Health Administration --- -Medical economics --- -Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Economic aspects --- Medical economics - United States --- Medical economics - Developing countries --- Economics, Hospital - United States --- Economics, Medical - United States --- Public Health Administration - United States

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Low- and middle-income countries face major challenges to their health systems. These include a high burden of communicable disease and an emerging non-communicable disease burden. Coverage of effective services and interventions is inadequate and often constrained by funding availability. At the same time, the international financing environment is changing rapidly, with new funding streams becoming available in part as a response to the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. These countries have taken a diversity of approaches to health care financing policies and programs to face the old and emerging challenges. This is increasingly accompanied by conceptual and applied research which is contributing to our understanding of how different financing mechanisms can contribute to the overall objectives of a health care system. The goal of this volume is to assemble the best of this research and synthesize 'best practices' for the benefit of researchers, policy makers and high level administrators, dealing with all elements of health care financing and focusing on both middle- and low-income settings, to represent the experiences of all regions of the developing world.

Medical care -- Finance -- Developing countries. --- Medical economics -- Developing countries. --- Medical policy. --- Delivery of Health Care --- Health Policy --- Insurance, Health --- Developing Countries --- Insurance --- Public Policy --- Patient Care Management --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- International Cooperation --- Health Services Administration --- Social Control Policies --- Financing, Organized --- Health Care --- Internationality --- Policy --- Social Control, Formal --- Economics --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Sociology --- Medical care --- Medical economics --- Finance --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Business & Economics --- Medical --- Health economics. --- Health systems & services. --- Medical care, Cost of. --- General. --- Health Care Delivery. --- Finance. --- Cost of medical care --- Health care costs --- Health care expenditures --- Medical costs --- Medical expenses --- Medical service, Cost of --- Medicine --- Medical savings accounts --- Costs