Going Public - The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare

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.

List of contents

1. Setting the stage; 2. Corporatising health for all, step by step; 3. Innovating for whose benefit? global health inc.'s ventures in low-income settings; 4. Towards healthcare justice in the majority world; 5. Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Anne-Emanuelle (University of Toronto) Birn, Ramya Kumar, Ramya (University of Jaffna Kumar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009454094
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945409-4
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: Elements in Global Development Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Health, privatization, Health systems & services, Primary care medicine, primary health care, Medical insurance