Going Public : The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare Paperback / softback
by Ramya (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle (University of Toronto) Birn
Part of the Elements in Global Development Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:102 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781009209571
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:102 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009209571
