Abstract
For the last two decades, major Asian economies have successfully kept their economic growth momentum going. Now, as these economies are entering a new phase of economic growth, more attention is being paid to their respective states of social development, especially the provision and the expansion of social security and, in particular, health care. Academic study of the development of health care in developing countries has been for the most part neglected by the literature, and in-depth country case studies that are directly comparable on a one-to-one basis have not yet been conducted in a systematic manner. This book proposes a new stance on health policy and health care policy paradigm, one that focuses on 'saving lives' from premature death, as well as illness, accidents, misery and poverty, based on the normative theory of Developmental Social Policy (DSP).