How the United States exports managed care to third-world countries

Monthly Review

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Waitzkin, Howard ^b   Iriart, Celia ^a  

^a Central de Trabajadores Argentinos   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMERCE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85045482619     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-052-01-2000-05_3     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. J. C. Lewis, "Latin American Managed Care Partnering Opportunities," paper presented to the Eighth Congress of the Association of Latin American Pre-paid Health Plans (ALAMI), Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 8, 1996.
2. The institutions and investigators participating in the World Health Organization-sponsored study of managed care in Latin America were the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Celia Iriart, Silvia Faraone, Marcela Quiroga, and Francisco Leone); the University of Campinas, Brazil (Emerson Elias Merhy, Florianita Coelho Braga Campos); the Group for Research and Teaching in Social Medicine (Grupo de Investigación y Capacitación en Medicina Social), Santiago, Chile (Alfredo Estrada, Enrique Barilari, Silvia Riquelme, Jaime Sepúlveda, Marilú Soto, and Carlos Montoya); the Center for Research and Consultation in Health (Centro de Estudios y Asesoría en Salud), Quito, Ecuador (Arturo Campaña, Jaime Breilh, Marcos Maldonado, Francisco Hidalgo); and the University of New Mexico (Howard Waitzkin, Karen Stocker). The study's overall coordinators were Celia Iriart and Howard Waitzkin. An earlier report on this work appeared in K. Stocker, H. Waitzkin, and C. Iriart, "The Exportation of Managed Care to Latin America," New England Journal of Medicine 340 (1999): 1131-1136. The U.S.-based research was also supported in part by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (1R01 HS09703).
3. World Bank, World Development Report 1993: Invest in Health (Washington DC: World Bank, 1993).
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