The political economy of health care: Colonial Namibia 1915-1961

Keith Gottschalk

Social Science & Medicine, 1988, vol. 26, issue 6, 557-582

Abstract: The political economy of health care services in colonial Namibia during 1915-1961 closely reflected the extreme racial and class imbalance of power in a conquest state. The colonial power allocated to the indigene nine-tenths, the poorest nine-tenths of the people, an average 43% of the health care budget between 1922 and 1954. The League of Nations mandate proved toothless in pressuring the Mandatory power to rectify this or other inequalities.

Date: 1988
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