The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare

This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes.

Autorentext

David Primrose is in the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Rodney Loeppky is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Canada.

Robin Chang is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Revitalizing the political economy of health and healthcare in a context of crisis PART I Theorizing health and healthcare 2. Mainstream health economics and the COVID-19 pandemic 3. The economics of conventions 4. Understanding Marx on health: Towards a class-based approach 5. Feminist political economy, health and care 6. Post-Keynesian economics and healthcare 7. New materialisms and the (critical) micropolitical economy of health 8. A lop-sided reflation: The limited contribution of behavioral economics to the political economy of obesity PART II Contemporary political economic dimensions of health 9. A critical political economy of health inequities 10. Issues of social reproduction and the political economy of health 11. Health and the corporate agri-food system 12. Neoliberalism and health in global context: The role of international organizations 13.Neoliberalism and mental health 14. Occupational health and safety in the global garment industry 15. Political economy and social epidemiology in the context of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa 16. Digital health and capitalism 17. The political economy of health and place: From the Great Compression to COVID-19 PART III Contemporary political-economic dimensions of healthcare 18. Commodified healthcare, profits, priorities and the disregard for life under capitalism 19. The financialization of long-term care in Canada: The case of Ontario 20. The anatomy of Big Pharma 21. Automating the welfare state: The case of disability benefits and services 22. Understanding the health-politics nexus in the shadow of populism: Towards a political science of, and for, health 23. Trade and investment: The re-ordering of healthcare and public health policy? 24. Universal health coverage: A case-study of the political economy of global health PART IV Geographical varieties of health and healthcare 25. The critical political economy of Latin America's healthcare systems: A century of struggles 26. The political economy of healthcare policy in Africa in the age of COVID-19 27. Transformation of healthcare in China: The pre-and post-Maoist eras 28. The political economy of health and healthcare in India 29. The political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis 30. Healthcare in Australia: Contesting marketized provision 31. The political economy of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom 32. Health and healthcare in the United States 33. The new health politics of austerity in Europe PART V Alternative paths toward health and healthcare 34. Social welfare and alternative forms of health provision: The UK experience and radical new frontiers 35. The need for comprehensive primary healthcare 36. The political economy of healthcare as commons: Exploring the commons health system and Indigenous peoples 37. Diverse economies of care-full healthcare: Banking and sharing human milk 38. The political economy of health and degrowth 39. Cuban medical internationalism: A radical alternative approach to medical 'aid' 40. The transition to post-capitalist health and healthcare