Global Health Care Systems and Management

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a health system as "all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health". The World Bank defines health systems more broadly to include factors interrelated to health, such as poverty, education, infrastructure and the broader social and political environment. Developing countries face many challenges to building robust, reliable health systems. This book has chapters which deal with overview of healthcare systems around the globe, Healthcare systems in India as well as other third world countries and western world including United States. There is a beautiful description of primary healthcare system. The topics on outsourcing and health tourism are contemporary and have immense value from the point of view of developing public-private partnerships and creating health infrastructure which will serve not only the needs of our population but also serve as a self-sustaining industry.