ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the principle of saving lives as it is – and not just from an Asian or developing country point of view – the most authoritative principle that can be in health care policy and social policy. Health care systems in the developing world have a double load of health care challenges. Saving lives by all means available and perceivable from premature deaths, disease, accidents, poverty and misery of any kind is the only goal, in the end, when it comes to health care policy and overall social policy. The chapter applies the theoretical perspective of developmental social policy (DSP). DSP is a normative theory that focuses on developing and developed countries as it puts forth solutions, ideas and strategies that have proven themselves on the ground in the day-to-day battlefield of social policy versus social problems, distorted development and underdevelopment.
