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...

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Hauptverfasser:
Kumar, Ramya, Birn, Anne-Emanuelle
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (92 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references.
Schriftenreihe:
Cambridge elements. Elements in global development studies
ISBN:
9781009209595
1009209590
9781009209601
1009209604
9781009209588
1009209582
ISSN:
2634-0313
Schlagworte:
Public health > Political aspects.
Medical care > Political aspects.
Medical policy.
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