During the Cold War, power asymmetries in global health governance were exacerbated by neoliberal policies that limited LLMICs’ ability to expand healthcare and scientific infrastructure. For example, in the 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) conditioned loans from the International Monetary ...
including tuition fees, corporate partnerships and philanthropy. Neoliberal policies encourage the privatisation of some university services and the involvement of the private sector in funding and supporting research, leading to partnerships with corporations....
Social prescribing is gaining traction internationally. It is an approach which seeks to address non-medical and health-related social needs through taking a holistic person-centred and community-based approach. This involves connecting people with and s
Instead of looking at scientific production primarily as a hierarchy of different quality works, I rather look at scientific production as to a complex mosaic of complementary research that can altogether contribute to a better understanding of the natural and human worlds as an inseparable whole. I...
Despite significant analytical capacity in, and a vibrant NGO sector promoting, health equity, Canada lags behind other countries in the implementation of policies that would improve SDH [16, 22], instead adopting a number of neoliberal policies creating more inequitable health conditions. Some of ...
Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar have begun to change their citizenship and residency policies, each in unique ways. This article analyzes these changes and projects what the implications of these changes are, with regard to the demographics of the region....
technical intervention with the potential to solve a broad and diverse range of problems. Hyper-solutionism in health policy, I suggest, should be understood as part of the neoliberal governance of health and healthcare and, in particular, the diffusion of the logic of austerity and resource eff...
Research on the WBG is therefore vulnerable to “riding the tiger” or promoting its self-produced image, such as its strengths as a “Knowledge Bank,” as a producer of catalytic aid, and as a promoter of health system strengthening, as well as its asserted reversal from the neoliberal ...
The way to tackle this new outlook was neither immediate nor univocal. The confrontation between the neoliberal policies of Margaret Thatcher and the brief experience of municipal socialism (Boddy and Fudge1984) shows how the discussion regarding the possible alternatives took place within the same na...
Despite significant analytical capacity in, and a vibrant NGO sector promoting, health equity, Canada lags behind other countries in the implementation of policies that would improve SDH [16, 22], instead adopting a number of neoliberal policies creating more inequitable health conditions. Some of ...