Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare (Elements in Global Development Studies)
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- Synopsis
- This Element highlights the pivotal role of corporate players in universal health coverage ideologies and implementation, and critically examines social innovation-driven approaches to expanding primary care in low-income settings. It first traces the evolving meanings of universal health/healthcare in global health politics and policy, analysing their close, often hidden, intertwining with corporate interests and exigencies. It then juxtaposes three social innovations targeting niche 'markets' for lower-cost services in the Majority World, against three present-day examples of publicly financed and delivered primary healthcare (PHC), demonstrating what corporatization does to PHC, within deeply entrenched colonial-capitalist structures and discourses that normalize inferior care, private profit, and dispossession of peoples.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009209595
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781009454094, 9781009454094
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/17/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Ramya Kumar and Anne-Emanuelle Birn
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.