Going Public

The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare

Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

102 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45409-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Global Development Studies
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10	1-009-45409-9 / 1009454099
ISBN-13	978-1-009-45409-4 / 9781009454094
Zustand	Neuware