Edited by Richard D. Smith and Kara Hanson
Health systems in low- and middle-income countries: an economic and policy perspective outlines the key aspects and issues concerning health systems of low- and middle-income countries, recognising the current global context within which these systems operate and the dynamics of this context. It
brings together a set of renowned authors to tackle the issues that face population health and health care in the twenty-first century.
The focus is predominantly low- and middle-income countries, with a distinct meeting of economic and policy perspectives, and grounding analysis of key
issues within the broader international context. The book therefore provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of health systems, with a very different and unique 'flavour' in the field. It should have wide appeal to those engaged in health and health care, including health professionals,
researchers and students, as well as those outside traditional health professions but with increasing interest within health issues, such as trade policy makers, researchers and students.
Section 1: The 'health system'
1. Richard Smith and Kara Hanson: What is a 'health system'?
2. Health systems and institutions
Section 2: The 'health sector': financing, purchasing, provision and performance
3. Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee: Measuring and evaluating
performance
4. Di McIntyre and Joe Kutzin: Revenue collection and pooling arrangements in financing
5. Kara Hanson: Delivering health services: incentives and information in supply-side innovations
6. Barbara McPake: Human resources and the health sector
7. Prashant Yadav, Richard
Smith and Kara Hanson: Pharmaceuticals and the health sector
Section 3: Health and systems in the wider context
8. Richard Smith: The health system and international trade
9. Anna Vassall and Melisa Martínez Álvarez: The health system and external financing
10. Rene Loewenson
and Lucy Gilson: The health system and wider social determinants of health
11. Richard Smith: The health system and global changes
Section 4: The future of health systems
12. Richard Smith and Kara Hanson: Global health diplomacy: the 'missing pillar' of health system
strengthening
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Richard D. Smith has been a Health Economist for some 20 years, following undergraduate and postgraduate studies in economics at the University of York. He is also an Honorary Professor of Health Economics at the Universities of Hong Kong and East Anglia, and is an Associate Fellow at The
Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.
Kara Hanson received degrees from McGill University, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, and has worked at the London School of Hygiene since 1997. She has over 20 years' experience in the field of health economics,
combining research and policy advice at the country and international levels.
Kara's research has focused mainly on the economics of financing and organising health services in low- and middle-income countries.
