Struggles for Health: An Emancipatory Approach in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization

Amit Sengupta, Chiara Bodini and Sebastian Franco ()
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Amit Sengupta: People’s Health Movement
Chiara Bodini: Viva Salud
Sebastian Franco: Alter Summit; Gresea

Development, 2018, vol. 61, issue 1, 101-107

Abstract: Abstract Capitalism is experiencing a prolonged crisis and is forcing structural changes in the global economic system to perpetuate its hegemony. Increasing financialization of the global economy is producing ever increasing concentration of wealth and inequity. These changes are devastating livelihoods of people across continents with many consequences on people’s health. This article analyzes the global governance for health, the social determination of health and, finally, its commodification. It highlights the need of a global mobilization of civil society to build a transnational movement able to defend health in all its aspects.

Keywords: Health; Global governance; Privatization; Social determinants; Healthcare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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