Going Public
Going Public
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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.
Product details
January 2024Paperback
9781009209571
102 pages
230 × 150 × 5 mm
0.19kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
