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Since the early 1990s, institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have required state-owned hospitals and clinics in Third World countries to be privatized before loans are considered. Many times those formerly state-owned and -run hospitals were purchased by U.S. and European insurance companies that then introduced U.S. models of managed care, even though the history of healthcare in those countries was vastly different from the systems that had developed in the United States.

first systematic study of the relationships between globalization and public health policies.

V. P. of Ghana joins US Doctors for Africa

as the potential to achieve even more if it can overcome the large burden of disease which continues to be a barrier to faster development.

has the potential to achieve even more if it can overcome the large burden of disease which continues to be a barrier to faster development