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The Dynamics of Commercial Health Care in the Lebanon

In: Commercialization of Health Care

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  • Kasturi Sen
  • Abla Mehio-Sibai

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Public health systems worldwide have experienced rapid commercialization conflicting with the socially based values of public provision. The ideological rationale underpinning these changes combines claims of market efficiency with a notion of ‘consumer’ interests that may be better served by markets than state health services (World Bank 1993; Newbrander 1997). This neoliberal paradigm has to a considerable extent usurped and transformed the notion of ‘the public’ and of ‘civil society’ into a collection of individual consumers and providers.

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  • Kasturi Sen & Abla Mehio-Sibai, 2005. "The Dynamics of Commercial Health Care in the Lebanon," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Maureen Mackintosh & Meri Koivusalo (ed.), Commercialization of Health Care, chapter 5, pages 66-83, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-52361-6_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523616_5
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