Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

Imperialism, Health and Medicine (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Navarro, Vicente

Mental Health

Routledge

Crisis, health, and medicine: A social critique

Crisis, Health, and Medicine: A Social Critique

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Tavistock Publications

Dangerous to Your Health

Monthly Review+press

<p>Dr. Vicente Navarro goes beyond the current debate to show graphically the economic, social, and political forces responsible for the sorry state of U.S. health care. Understanding these forces will help facilitate the struggle to reform the health care system so that access to care is guaranteed as a human right. Navarro provides this understanding in direct, accessible terms. The first chapter shows why the health care system in the United States does not respond to people's needs. The next two chapters describe the deteriorating situation of diminishing benefits and growing costs during the Reagan/Bush years and the possibilities for change during the Clinton administration. They also critically analyze the proposals put forward by the Democratic leadership. The last two chapters discuss the health care systems of other advanced countries and explain the political and social forces responsible for the establishment of universal and comprehensive health programs. The final chapter explains how the possibility for such a program in the United States is handicapped by the class, race and gender relations that exists both inside and outside the health sector.</p>

Dangerous to Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care

Class struggle, the state, and medicine: An historical and contemporary analysis of the medical sector in Great Britain (Medicine in society series)

Robertson

Class Struggle the State & Medicine: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of the Medical Sector in Great Britain (Medicine in Society Series)

Navarro, Vincente

Watson Pub Intl

This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive and universal health benefits coverage to the majority of the U.S. population at lower costs than the current health care nonsystem.

Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

<p>Since U.S. President Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives: privatizing public services and public enterprises, deregulating the mobility of capital and labor, eliminating protectionism, and reducing public social protection. This ideology, called 'neoliberalism,' has guided the globalization of economic activity and become the conventional wisdom in international agencies and institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the technical agencies of the United Nations, including the WHO). Reproduced in the 'Washington consensus' in the United States and the 'Brussels consensus' in the European Union, this ideology has guided policies widely accepted as the only ones possible and advisable.This book assembles a series of articles that challenge that ideology. Written by well-known scholars, these articles question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented.</p>

Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities: Consequences for health and quality of life

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