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 (VerfasserIn), Birn, Anne-Emanuelle 1964- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (92 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009209588
DOI:10.1017/9781009209588

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