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 PHC, demonstrating what corporatisation does to PHC, within deeply entrenched colonial-capitalist structures and discourses that normalize inferior care, private profit, and dispossession of peoples.
| Autor: | Birn, Anne-Emanuelle Kumar, Ramya |
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| ISBN: | 9781009454094 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Cambridge Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 18.01.2024 |
| Untertitel: | The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare |
| Schlagworte: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Health Health systems & services MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery Medical insurance Primary care medicine, primary health care privatization |
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