Le retour de la conception biomédicale du paludisme dans les institutions internationales

Thomas Druetz, Sylvie Zongo and Valéry Ridde

Mondes en développement, 2015, vol. n° 170, issue 2, 41-58

Abstract: We argue here that efforts against malaria are in line with a biomedical conception of the disease, which departs from the comprehensive and positive definition of health established at Alma-Ata in 1978. The use of community health workers and the use of rapid diagnostic tests illustrate this phenomenon. International institutions should consider malaria as the expression of a social, economic and environmental vulnerability rather than a parasitic infection that has to be eliminated.

Keywords: malaria; bio-medicalization; global health institutions; communityhealth workers; rapid diagnostic tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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