International Health and Aid Policies

Jean-Pierre Unger is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the MPH programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Pierre De Paepe is a researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Kasturi Sen is a social scientist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Werner Soors is a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Introduction: overview and purpose; Part I. Aspects of International Health Policies: 1. Donor led policies: analysis of an underlying doctrine; 2. The Achilles heel of international health policies in low and middle income countries; Part II. The Failure of the Aid Paradigm: Poor Disease Control in Developing Countries: 3. Why do disease control programs require patients in publicly-oriented services to succeed in delivering? The case of malaria control in Mali; 4. How do disease control programs damage health care delivery in developing countries?; 5. Privatization (PPM-DOTS) strategy for tuberculosis control: how evidence based is it?; Part III. International Health Policies and their Impact on Access to Health Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: Some Recent Experiences from Latin America: 6. Costa Rica: achievements of a heterodox health policy; 7. Colombia: in-vivo test of health sector privatization; 8. Chile's neo liberal health reforms: an assessment and a critique; Part IV. Determinants and Implications of New Liberal Health Policies: the Case of India, China and the Lebanon: 9. Political and economic determinants of health: the case of India; 10. An economic insight into health care in six Chinese counties: equity in crisis; 11. Health care financing and delivery in the context of conflict and crisis: the Lebanon; Part V. Principles for Publicly-Oriented Health Care Policies, Planning, Management and Delivery: 12. Paradigm shifts; Section 1. The need to alter health systems missions; Section 2. The need to change public health methods; 13. Principles for an alternative social and democratic health policy; 14. Quality standards for health care delivery and management in publicly-oriented health services; 15. Principles of publicly-oriented health planning; 16. A code of good practice for the management of disease control programs; Part VI. Strategies to Develop Publicly-Oriented Health Systems and Services: 17. Person-centered care in LIC/MIC publicly-oriented services; 18. Improving access; Section 1. Access to health care (Ecuador); Section 2. Access to drugs (Senegal); 19. Non-managed care techniques to improve clinical decision making; Section 1. Versatile techniques; Section 2. Interface flow-process audit; 20. Reorienting academic missions: how can public health departments best support access to good quality comprehensive health care?; Conclusion.