This article provides the first ever review of literature analysing the health policy processes
of low and middle income countries (LMICs). Based on a systematic search of published …

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to
universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an …

Background: The pandemic of HIV/AIDS is actually a composite of many regional and
national‐level epidemics. The progress made in many parts of the developed and …

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death?
Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public …

Debates on the nature of the developmental state must supersede the concept's origins in
the analysis of East Asian Strategies of Industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, refocusing …

In the old centers of 19th-and 20th-century development, policy debates have taken on a
disturbingly anachronistic thrust. In Washington, ideological tropes from early triumphalist …

In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new
insight into state-society relations in democratic and post-neoliberal Latin America. In …

At a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine
available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to …

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that
produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of …

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and
historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work explores a crucial question: how …