The purpose of this contribution is to analyse and explain the South African HRH case, its historical evolution, and post-apartheid reform initiatives aimed at addressing deficiencies and shortfalls. HRH in South Africa not only mirrors the nature and diversity of challenges globally, but also the strategies pursued by countries to address these challenges. Although South Africa has strongly de...

This book focuses on a range of health system and policy issues related to caring for people with chronic conditions. Edited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee, this book features contributions from twenty different authors based in five European and three non-European countries. This volume represents the newest addition to the European Observa...

China has exploded onto the world economy over the past few decades and is undergoing rapid transformation toward relatively more services. The health sector is an important part of this transition. This article provides a historical account of the development of health care in China since 1949. It also focuses on health insurance and macroeconomic structural adjustment to less saving and more ...

No one is too clear about the underlying goals of health sector reforms. The cynical may detect a neo-liberal free market agenda in the rhetoric that emanates from the World Bank’s health report of 1993, but even the cynical need to deal with the issues that health reforms throw up. More recently the Bank itself has recognised the failures of the market approach in health care and argued for a ...