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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anne-Emanuelle (University of Toronto) Birn, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Ramya Kumar, Ramya (University of Jaffna Kumar
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2024
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali
• EAN: 9781009209571
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0920957-1
• Numero di pagine: 102
• Serie: Elements in Global Development Studies
• Categorie: MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Health, privatization, Health systems & services, Primary care medicine, primary health care, Medical insurance