Postneoliberal public health care reforms: Neoliberalism, social medicine, and persistent health inequalities in Latin America

C. Hartmann

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 12, 2145-2151

Abstract: Several Latin American countries are implementing a suite of so-called "postneoliberal" social and political economic policies to counter neoliberal models that emerged in the 1980s. This article considers the influence of postneoliberalism on public health discourses, policies, institutions, and practices in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Social medicine and neoliberal public health models are antecedents of postneoliberal public healthcaremodels.Postneoliberal public health governance models neither fully incorporate social medicine nor completely reject neoliberal models. Postneoliberal reforms may provide an alternative means of reducing health inequalities and improving population health.

Keywords: Bolivia; Ecuador; human; model; public health service; Venezuela; health care policy; health disparity; politics; social medicine; South America, Health Care Reform; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Politics; Social Medicine; South America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303470

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