Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries

Ed Peter Berman Harvard University Press, £9.50, pp 418 ISBN 0 674 38525 X Health sector reform must be the most exciting challenge facing those responsible for health care in developing countries. Substantive change that results in more money for health and more health for the money has to be right. The new international policy vision has shifted to institutional reform and varied financing mechanisms for health care. Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries, which is about this new policy, is based on a conference organised by Harvard University and the US …