Book
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare
ISBN : 9780367861360
Author : Edited by David Primrose, Rodney D. Loeppky and Robin Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Year : 2024
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : 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. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full potential and the ability of society to prevent disease and cure illness are demonstrated to be shaped by a broader array of political economic processes. The material conditions in which societies produce, distribute, exchange, consume, and reproduce – and the operation of power relations therein – influence all elements of human health: from food consumption and workplace safety, to inequality, healthcare and housing, and even the biophysical conditions in which humans live.
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