Health innovation systems, equity and development /

“Health is fundamental for people all over the world. The health conditions are dramatically different depending on where you are born and what social status you have. The field of innovation systems and global health policy came together in the mid-2000s when a heavy focus was placed on the role of...

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Other Authors: Cassiolato, José E. (ed.), Soares, María Clara C. (ed.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Río de Janeiro : E-papers, 2015
Edition:1a. ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Innovation systems, development and health
  • 1. Being well in the Early 21st Century
  • 2. Is there a role for innovation in health equity?
  • 3. Disruption and experimentation in health research and innovation
  • 4. The economic-industrial health care complex and the social and economic dimension of development
  • 5. Building of health innovation systems
  • 6. Innoation and innovation systems
  • 7. Local innovative and productive systems in health
  • 8. Rural health systems in South Africa
  • 9. Local innovation and production system in indigenous medicine
  • 10. Low cost medical equipment innovation for BoP in China
  • 11. Inclusive innovation and policy mismatch in health care
  • 12. Phytotherapy in the Amazon
  • 13. Health services and innovation in Brazil
  • 14. Features of the political economy of Brazil's health system
  • Contributors.