Under the pressure of structural adjustment, health and veterinary services in Africa increasingly have relied on user fees and private markets. In this study, a collaborative group of African and American physicians, veterinarians and social scientists explore the different experiences of the two services with marketization through survey research in six African countries. They demonstrate that the markets for these services will function well only if important problems in the formal and informal institutions that govern them are solved. The book makes significant contributions to health and veterinary policy for emerging markets and to the new institutional economics.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Basingstoke
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, indexes
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-333-76285-1 (9780333762851)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
DAVID K. LEONARD is Dean of International and Area Studies and Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Reaching the Peasant Farmer, Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor and African Successes.
List of Figures - List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - Preface - Biographical Notes - Abstracts - The New Institutional Economics and the Restructuring of Animal Health Services in Africa; D.K.Leonard - Traditional Insurance Mechanisms and the Choice of Health Care Providers in Ethiopia; D.H.Mariam - The Importance of Proximity, Transport, and Gender as Transaction Costs in the Use of Veterinary Services in Zimbabwe; P.S.A.Woods - Incentives and Rural Health Care Delivery: Cameroon I; K.L.Leonard - Health Care Quality and the Choice of Care Providers: Cameroon II; S.Ndeso-Atanga - Can Private Veterinarians Survive in Uganda?; L.Koma - Veterinary Professionals in Senegal: Allocation of Priorities and Working Behaviour; C.Ly - Decentralization and the Quality of Health Care in Tanzania; G.R.Mliga - Veterinary Services Delivery to Livestock Producers: Management and the Impact of Auxiliaries on Pastoral Production in Senegal; C.Ly - Conclusion: Lessons from the New Institutional Economics for the Structural Reform of Human Health Services in Africa; D.K.Leonard - Consolidated Bibliography - Index of Persons - Index of Subjects
