Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization in the Health Sector

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医疗改革理念方面发挥了关键作用。在本研究中，研究了拉丁美洲国家对国际金融机构努力的不同反应，包括确定解释反应差异的因素。将对主要举报人进行访谈，并对政策文件进行内容分析，以审查不同水平的国家能力和自主权如何影响秘鲁、哥斯达黎加和阿根廷这三个国家的卫生改革。更广泛的影响：该项目将引起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家的兴趣，因为它扩展了社会学理论，并在新的背景下考察了卫生部门改革的进程。决策者应该对这些结果感兴趣，他们可能会发现这些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.