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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459473203321

Autore

Sampath Padmashree Gehl

Titolo

Reconfiguring global health innovation / / Padmashree Gehl Sampath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89296-6

1-282-92991-7

9786612929915

0-203-84063-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in health economics  Reconfiguring global health innovation

Disciplina

362.109172/4

Soggetti

Medical innovations - Developing countries

World health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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