November 2024
·
6 Reads
The BMJ
What is this page?
This page lists works of an author who doesn't have a ResearchGate profile or hasn't added the works to their profile yet. It is automatically generated from public (personal) data to further our legitimate goal of comprehensive and accurate scientific recordkeeping. If you are this author and want this page removed, please let us know.
Publications (172)
October 2024
Global Social Policy
September 2024
·
5 Reads
January 2024
·
1 Read
January 2024
·
97 Reads
December 2023
·
52 Reads
·
5 Citations
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.
October 2023
·
55 Reads
·
87 Citations
This classic text, formerly known as the "Basch" textbook, now completely revised in an updated new edition, brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It synthesizes historical, cultural, environmental, economic and political considerations to provide a comprehensive global overview of the many factors that determine the health of individuals and populations. The major determinants of health status in all regions of the world are discussed, and interventions undertaken at community, national, and international levels are described. The new edition features a renowned new authorship committed to updating and expanding the entire content while retaining the core elements of Basch's excellent text.
May 2023
·
63 Reads
·
2 Citations
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes
April 2023
·
43 Reads
·
1 Citation
The Lancet
November 2022
·
136 Reads
·
7 Citations
Despite the global prioritization of addressing adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and participatory rights, little research has examined their lived experiences in shaping their engagement in SRH decision-making processes in the global South. Further, few studies have explored how structural and societal factors influence their agency and participation. This critical and focused ethnography, informed by postcolonial feminist and difference-centred citizenship theories, conducted in Malawi (2017–2018) elicited perspectives of youth and key informants to help address these knowledge gaps. Our findings show that the effective implementation and uptake of global discourse on participation and gender equity is hindered by inadequate consideration of girls’ and young women’s local political, cultural and social realities. Many girls and young women demonstrate passion to participate in SRH policymaking as agents of change. However, patriarchal and gerontocratic political and social structures/institutions, and gendered and adultist norms and practices limit their active and meaningful participation in SRH decision-making. In addition, donors’ roles in SRH policymaking and their prioritization of the “girl child” highlight an enduring postcolonial power over agenda-setting processes. Understanding young people’s experiences of gendered participation and scrutinizing underlying systemic forces are critical steps toward realizing young women’s SRH and participatory rights.
Citations (56)
... 52,53 This emphasis is entrenched by a global health paradigm that normalises vastly different healthcare standards and inequities in access between and within countries. 54,55 While governments of LMICs have a crucial role to play in allocating resources to build healthcare systems, the inequitable distribution of health resources, including migration of health professionals, must also be addressed at the global level. ...
- Citing Book
December 2023
... In sharing their representations and explanatory frameworks of T1D, patients and families suggest that T1D obeys what Doukouré refers to as the principle of double causality 21 (natural and supernatural causes) and social determinants of health. 22 Baudrant et al. 23 explore the concept of representation in developmental psychology and social psychology. In cognitive psychology, the term designates the personal interpretation of the phenomenon. ...
- Citing Book
October 2023
... In Quebec, as in almost all parts of the world, development related to natural resources, including mining, does not always meet with the full support of the populations of the regions concerned [8,9]. Mining is perceived by the populations as destructive of nature, which increases the already low degree of credibility that they grant it [10]. Indeed, in the collective imagination of many, mining industries benefit from the positive economic spinoffs of the sites, make a lot of money with the complicity of politicians and leave nothing positive or attractive behind when they pack up and leave an environment [11]. ...
- Citing Article
May 2023
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes
... In other words, women in the FTZ garment factories were to focus on productivity rather than reproductivity even as other women were seen as 'reproducers, nurturers, disseminators of tradition, culture, community and nation' (De Alwis, 2002: 675). As illustrated by the experience in Sri Lanka, women's work roles and the gendered labour market aspects of the neo-liberal era of global capitalism are a crucial, if understudied, element of reproductive health ideologies and practices over the past 40 years, both domestically and globally (Kumar, Birn, & McDonough, 2016). Even though contraceptive options have increased within the neo-liberal market, cultural norms and practices of reproduction and sexuality have impinged on female FTZ workers' choice of contraception. ...
- Citing Chapter
May 2016
... The decision-making authority of women within households is linked to various aspects such as child health [8], family planning methods [12], reproductive health, parity levels [15], health issues [16], and the overall gender parity status of society [17]. Despite women constituting half of the population in India and being granted more rights than men, the condition of women remains distressing, particularly concerning the power dynamics in household decision-making [18]. ...
- Citing Article
- Full-text available
November 2022
... In Sri Lanka, for instance, fiscal constraints paired with subsidies to the private sector have substantially weakened the nonfee levying public system. In this context, caregivers-primarily women-spend much time and effort navigating the two-tiered health system, accessing "free" services where possible and turning to the private sector and taking on the additional care burden (Kumar et al., 2022). ...
- Citing Article
February 2022
Social Science & Medicine
... O surgimento de novas ou a reemergência de outras epidemias e pandemias, como a gripe pelo H1N1, as arboviroses e o COVID-19 são exemplos que impuseram mudanças na centralidade com que se investiga e atua uma determinada doença. As epidemias requerem esforços das políticas e pesquisas, que rapidamente mudam o foco, interesses e financiamentos, alternando-se historicamente no cenário mundial, como defendemHochman & Birn (2021). ...
- Citing Article
- Full-text available
December 2021
Topoi Revista de História
... A political system's belief in the role of digital health technology to improve health outcomes and optimize resources utilization within a health-care system Geopolitical landscape, competition and collaboration 149,159,171 The potential shift of global power dynamics towards entities with data control or digital technology market dominance might influence implementation and impact of new technologies. For example, implementation of digital technologies in Africa funded by Meta are equally gatekept by Meta Scientific autonomy and independence 179 The level to which institutions retain their scientific autonomy while avoiding political and commercial influences. ...
- Citing Article
July 2021
... The enormity and atypicality of pandemic governance have attracted academic attention even during pre-Covid-19 years (Arnold 1993;Barry 2004;Goodman 1978;Gunn, Craddock, and Giles-Vernick 2010;Harrison 2020;Moreau de 1831;Morgan 1994;Osler 1914;Perry and Fetherson 1997;Rogers 1912;Watts 2018), while the Covid-19 pandemic prompted scholars to investigate pandemic governance models under a comparative prism (Aaltola 2021;Birn 2021;Bjørnskov and Voigt 2022;Bristow and White 2020;Chakraborty, Thakur, and Debaroti 2023;Frankema and Tworek 2020;Ginsberg 2020;Harper 2020;Kipfer and Mohamud 2021;Leib 2023;Ramraj and Thiruvengadam 2021;Villarreal 2020;Waal 2021). Recent scholarly works (Kipfer and Mohamud 2021;Ramraj and Thiruvengadam 2021;Villarreal 2020;Waal 2021) have comparatively investigated use of pandemic emergency powers across nations and historical pandemic, however, the application emergency powers to govern different pandemics has not been theoretically explored in reference to emergency and constitutional law theories. ...
- Citing Article
May 2021
Journal of Global History
... In his memoir Away with all Pests!, English socialist and physician Joshua S. Horn (1971) enthusiastically described mass clean-up campaigns and barebones but effective immunisation programmes. Victor and Ruth Sidel (2013) wrote glowing reports of China's 'barefoot doctor' programme as an 'innovation' in which 'peasants [are] trained for relatively brief periods to perform health and medical care services on a part-time basis ' (idem, 123). And when the World Health Organization (WHO) held an international conference on primary health care at Alma Ata (in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) in 1978, China's rural medical system was said to be the inspiration for WHO's new focus on simple, accessible primary health care in rural areas (Cui 2008). ...
- Citing Book
July 2013