Transforming health markets in Asia and Africa : improving quality and access for the poor / edited by Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry Lucas and David H. Peters.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge : earthscan from Routledge, 2013.

xvii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transition in the Indian healthcare market / Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar -- Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal health care providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Iqbal [and 7 others] -- Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh / M. Hafizur Rahman and Smisha Agarwal -- China's rural hospitals in the transition to a market economy : a case study in two peri-urban counties in Guangxi province / Gerald Bloom [and 4 others] -- Informal markets in sexual and reproductive health services and commodities in rural and urban Bangladesh / Hilary Standing, Sabina Faiz Rashid, and Owasim Akram -- Improving the performance of patent medicine vendors in Nigeria / Oladimeji Oladepo and Henry Lucas -- Yes, they can : peer educators for diabetes in Cambodia / Maurits van Pelt [and 5 others] -- Evidence of the effects of market-based innovations and international initiatives to improve the performance of private providers / Claire Champion, Gerald Bloom, David Peters -- A review of ICT innovations by private sector providers in developing countries / Henry lucas -- The economics of social franchising for health in low and middle income countries / David Bishai and Claire Champion -- Conclusions : making health markets work better for poor people / Gerald Bloom [and 4 others].