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Bring order to unregulated health markets

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  • David H. Peters

    (David H. Peters is director of the Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.)

  • Gerald Bloom

    (Gerald Bloom is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.)

Abstract

Uncontrolled medical treatment in Asia and Africa costs lives and money. David Peters and Gerald Bloom call for governments, firms and citizen groups to get involved.

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  • David H. Peters & Gerald Bloom, 2012. "Bring order to unregulated health markets," Nature, Nature, vol. 487(7406), pages 163-165, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:487:y:2012:i:7406:d:10.1038_487163a
    DOI: 10.1038/487163a
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    1. Maryam Bigdeli & Bart Jacobs & Chean Rithy Men & Kristine Nilsen & Wim Van Damme & Bruno Dujardin, 2016. "Access to Treatment for Diabetes and Hypertension in Rural Cambodia: Performance of Existing Social Health Protection Schemes," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-18, January.
    2. George, Asha & Iyer, Aditi, 2013. "Unfree markets: Socially embedded informal health providers in northern Karnataka, India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 297-304.
    3. Onah, Michael Nnachebe & Horton, Susan, 2018. "Male-female differences in households' resource allocation and decision to seek healthcare in south-eastern Nigeria: Results from a mixed methods study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 84-91.
    4. Hipgrave, David B. & Alderman, Katarzyna Bolsewicz & Anderson, Ian & Soto, Eliana Jimenez, 2014. "Health sector priority setting at meso-level in lower and middle income countries: Lessons learned, available options and suggested steps," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 190-200.

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