Going public : the unmaking and remaking of universal healthcare / Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Ramya, author.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in global development studies.

Cambridge elements. Elements in global development studies 2634-0313

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Political aspects.

Public health.

Medical care--Political aspects.

Medical care.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare

Contents

1 Setting the Stage

2 Corporatizing Health for All, Step by Step

Health for All and the New International Economic Order: The 1970s

Selective Primary Healthcare (SPHC) and Neoliberal Re-ordering: The 1980s

A Package of Essential Services to Advance Global Health: The 1990s

Business Alliances for Economic Development in the New Millennium

Enter Universal Health Coverage

Conclusion

3 Innovating for Whose Benefit? Global Health Inc.'s Ventures in Low-Income Settings

Mhealth Technologies for Maternal and Child Health

Chipatala Cha Pa Foni in Context

Limits of Mhealth Approaches

Private Drug Sellers Treating Childhood Fever

Private Drug Shops in Context

Limits of iCCM and Private Drug Sellers

Franchisee-Nurses Delivering Primary Care

One Family Health Rwanda in Context

Limits of Franchising for Primary Care

Innovations for Profit not for People

4 Towards Healthcare Justice in the Majority World

Universal and 'Free' Maternal and Infant Care in Sri Lanka

A Truly Public Maternal and Infant Care Service

Origins and Expansion of Free Maternal and Infant Care

Current Provenance of Overall Healthcare System Resources

Challenges Ahead

Thailand's Efforts to Build a Rural Healthcare Workforce

A Programme to Retain Rural Health Workers

Decades-Long Public Investment in Healthcare

Comprehensive Community-Oriented PHC in Cuba

The Family Doctor and Nurse Programme

Building PHC After a Revolution

Contrasting Approaches

5 Conclusion

Abbreviations

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009209595

1009209590

9781009209601

1009209604

9781009209588

1009209582