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Reconfiguring global health innovation / Padmashree Gehl Sampath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sampath, Padmashree Gehl, author.
- Series:
- Routledge international studies in health economics ; 7.
- Routledge international studies in health economics Reconfiguring global health innovation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical innovations--Developing countries.
- Medical innovations.
- World health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reconfiguring Global Health Innovation presents the findings of multi-year research, contrasting experiences of different latecomer countries in building health innovation systems to cater to local needs. It analyses the emerging industrial structures in health innovation as more and more latecomer countries are foraying into what is a highly difficult and technologically intensive sector, with the aim of finding ways and means to balance these promising developments with public health needs worldwide.The bookpresents empirical findings from six countries across Asia and Afric
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I The unhealthy divide; 1 The global health imperative; 2 Sectoral systems for health innovation and development; Part II Health innovation: Country case studies; 3 India's advanced capacity in health innovation; 4 Health innovation systems in Bangladesh and Vietnam; 5 Kenya's health innovation capacity; 6 Nigeria and Tanzania's incipient health innovation capacity; Part III Comparative insights; 7 Health innovation and latecomer development
- 8 Bridging the health divide: Institutional capacity in latecomersNotes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-89295-8
- 1-136-89296-6
- 1-282-92991-7
- 9786612929915
- 0-203-84063-1
- 9780203840634
- OCLC:
- 798531408
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