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Military Regime

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The SPDC/SLORC regimes justified the necessity to maintain law and order and to ensure the state’s orientation towards a peaceful modern developed nation. However, this approach represented more propaganda than pragmatism. People continued to suffer from political oppression, lack of civil freedom, and disrespect for human rights. Issues of poverty and corruption remained considerable, and social and legal justice remained questionable. With the nominal practice of market economy and rent seeking from economic opportunities over two decades, the regime magnified the socio-economic disparity and the power gradient between the few (military elites and their business cronies) and the majority of the population. The military regime …show more content…

Even though the National Health Policy highlights the primary health care approach, 70 percent of those government health spending went to hospital services. Public health programs were much under-funded as only 2 percent of the total government health expenditure was used for provision and administration of public health programs (Ministry of Health, 2014).
As of 2008, private expenditures accounted for 88.9 percent of the total health expenditures, out of which 95.7 percent were out-of-pocket payments—the highest rate in the region (World Health Organization, 2015b). While high costs constrained access to health care services for people who were unable to afford out-of-pocket payments, poor quality of care also limited their desire to seek health services in public hospitals. The regime’s prioritization of the security agenda over social sector investment, along with the regime’s narrow conception of development and the impact of external sanctions, reduced political capacity and performance legitimacy of the state with regard to health care delivery (Rudland, 2003). This exacerbated the “social suffering” of the people, as described by Hanna & Kleinman (2013), from poverty, social insecurity, restricted socio-political freedom, and long-standing state-societal disharmony.
In May 2008, a tropical cyclone, Nargis hit Myanmar, and this natural disaster impacted approximately 2.4 million people, including

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