Health is fundamental for people all over the world. The health conditions are dramatically different depending on where you are born and what social status you have. The field of innovation systems and global health policy came together in the mid-2000s when a heavy focus was placed on the role of science in bringing forward new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in solving the world’s health problems. By the late 2000s the debates moved on towards thinking beyond R&D and new technologies, but unfortunately, by doing so, most of the focus on innovation system thinking was lost. The notion of innovation as a process that takes place through interaction between users and producers of knowledge within the health system is not considered.
Innovation system thinking as it has developed within Globelics takes as its starting point disparities in economic development and poverty levels between and within countries. Increasingly, researchers, implementing agents and, to some extent, donors, have acknowledged that there also needs to be a role for organizing society so that it stimulates learning and competence-building, including in the informal sectors and aiming at social inclusion as well as at economic performance.
This book represents an important step toward establishing a new understanding of how health systems may be organized and managed in such a way that they establish paths that offer better health for the poorest in society through balancing and interconnecting scientific advance with experience-based learning.
SUMÁRIOAcknowledgments
Preface
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Innovation Systems, Development and Health
José E. Cassiolato and Maria Clara C. Soares
Chapter 1
Being Well in the Early 21st Century
Rasigan Maharajh
Chapter 2
87Is There a Role for Innovation in Health Equity?
Judith Sutz
Chapter 3
Disruption and Experimentation in Health Research and Innovation:
Joanna Chataway, David Wield and Sophie Castle-Clarke
Chapter 4
The Economic-Industrial Health Care Complex and The Social and Economic Dimension of Development
Carlos A. G. Gadelha, Laís Silveira Costa and José Maldonado
Chapter 5
Building of Health Innovation Systems:
Dinesh Abrol, Sundararaman T., Harilal Madhavan and K. J. Joseph
Chapter 6
Innovation and Innovation Systems:
José E. Cassiolato and Helena M. M. Lastres
Chapter 7
Local Innovative and Productive Systems in Health:
Marcelo G. Pessoa de Matos, Maria Clara C. Soares and José E. Cassiolato
Chapter 8
Rural Health Systems in South Africa:
Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Lindile Ndabeni and Rasigan Maharajh
Chapter 9
Local Innovation and Production System in Indigenous Medicine
K. J. Joseph, Dinesh Abrol and Harilal Madhavan
Chapter 10
Low Cost Medical Equipment Innovation for BoP in China
Xielin Liu, Jianghua Zhou and Xuemei Ma
Chapter 11
Inclusive Innovation and Policy Mismatch in Health Care
Carlos Bianchi, Mariela Bianco, Melissa Ardanche and Marcela Schenck
Chapter 12
Phytotherapy in the Amazon:
Antonio Sergio M. Filocreao, Alexandre G. Galindo and
Terezinha de Jesus S. dos Santos
Chapter 13
Health Services and Innovation in Brazil:
Marisa dos Reis A. Botelho and Ana Lucia Tatsch
Chapter 14
Features of the Political Economy of Brazil’s Health System:
Paulo F. Cavalcanti Filho, Ednilson Felipe and Arlindo Villaschi
Contributors
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