Community Participation in Health - The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica

Zusammenfassung Combining a rich local ethnography with an analysis of local and national politics and the politics of aid! Lynn Morgan shows how community participation in health-care in Costa Rica was wrecked by national and international political conflicts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The political symbolism of health; 2. Banana medicine: the United Fruit Company; 3. The international imperative: foreign aid for health in Costa Rica; 4. The primary health care movement and the political ideology of participation in health; 5. Participation in Costa Rica: dissent within the state; 6. La Chira: participation in a banana-growing community; 7. The political economy of participation.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn M. Morgan, Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke College Morgan
• Assisted by: Alan Harwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025706
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02570-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical A
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)