Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781009209571)

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.

Author: Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn
ISBN-10: 1009209574
ISBN-13: 9781009209571
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2024
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d