HEPVIC - Health Policy-Making in Vietnam, India and China: key determinants and their inter-relationships (Specific measures in support of international co-operation) (2005-11-01 - 2008-10-31)(»add to infobox)
ACRONYM:
HEPVIC
BUDGET:
2.619.840 €
FUNDING:
2.619.840 €
INSTRUMENT:
Specific Targeted Research Project
PROGRAMME:
Specific measures in support of international co-operation
This research aims to enhance the health policy making processes in developing countries through a comparative study of three Asian countries - Vietnam, India and China. It will do this through a case-study approach to policy-making in the field of maternal health. The research will seek to understand the complex interplay of factors that affect or should affect health policy-making. Health is influenced by a number of factors which health policy-making has to take into account including the health care delivery system which in turn is affected by other factors including human resources, and the institutional and management arrangements of the health system. Health is also influenced by a number of contextual factors which policy-making processes must recognise and respond to. One particular aspect of the context which this research wishes to focus on is that of civil society and its role both in terms of influencing health and health-seeking behaviour and its role in influencing health ?
