Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization in the Health Sector

机构：印第安纳州大学国际金融机构，特别是国际货币基金组织和世界银行，在向发展中国家传播卫生改革思想方面发挥了关键作用。在这项研究中，拉丁美洲国家的不同反应的努力，国际金融机构进行了调查，包括确定的因素，解释反应的变化。访谈将进行与关键的线人和内容分析将进行政策文件，以研究如何不同程度的国家能力和自主性塑造了三个国家的医疗改革：秘鲁，哥斯达黎加和Argentina.Broader影响：这个项目将感兴趣的政治和医学社会学家，公共卫生学者，政策研究人员，和拉丁美洲学者，因为它扩展了社会学理论，并检查在一个新的背景下卫生部门改革的过程。决策者应该对结果感兴趣，他们可能会发现这一信息对制定未来的计划、协议和改革很有价值。

SES-1029564PI: Patricia McManusCo-PI: Shiri NoyInstitution: Indiana UniversityInternational financial institutions, in particular, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, have played a critical role in spreading ideas about health reform to developing nations. In this study, Latin American countries' different responses to the efforts by international financial institutions are investigated including identifying the factors that explain the variation in responses. Interviews will be conducted with key informants and a content analysis will be carried out on policy documents to examine how different levels of state capacity and autonomy shaped health reform in three countries: Peru, Costa Rica and Argentina.Broader Impacts:This project will be of interest to political and medical sociologists, public health scholars, policy researchers, and Latin Americanists as it extends sociological theories and examines the process of health sector reform in a new context. The results should be of interest to policy makers who may find this information valuable in the construction of future plans, agreements and reforms.