Book Review: Health Economics and Policy Challenges in Global Emerging Markets

Frontiers in Public Health

Milena Jurisevic¹ 

关键词: emerging markets;    health economics;    global health;    medicine;    health policy;    BRICS;    next eleven;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2017.00244

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The book entitled “Health Economics and Policy Challenges in Global Emerging Markets,” edited by Prof. Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD (1) describes some of the key global health challenges at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Notable health economists in the field based in USA, Japan, China, and European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Albania) affiliated to the some of the top ranked universities contributed with their diverse expert profiles in health economics, clinical medicine, public health, and population aging. The focus of the book is on the leading emerging countries and mature free-market economies that face with the similar challenges including BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and N-11 nations (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, and Vietnam), North American region, Far East Asia, Western, and Eastern Europe. Regional health-care issues in these countries related to the population aging (2–4), health expenditures (5–7), health technology assessment (8, 9), insurance coverage (10–12), costs of pharmaceutical development (13, 14), economics of prosperity diseases (15–18), public health legislation (19), and caregiver assessment (20) are processed in seven chapters of the book.

【 授权许可】

CC BY