Going Public
The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare
Published on 10. January 2024
978-1-009-20960-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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File size
3,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-20960-1 (9781009209601)
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Content
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.
