Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems

Storeng, Katerini T. and Mishra, Arima (2014) Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems. Journal Global Public Health An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 9 (8). pp. 858-864.

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Abstract

Over the past decade, growing recognition that weak health systems threaten global health progress has galvanised renewed global and national commitment to strengthening health systems (Hafner & Shiffman, 2012). Global health leaders from the World Health Organization to the GAVI Alliance, national governments and donors today endorse the goal of health system strengthening (HSS), though there is little, if any consensus on what this entails. Mirroring the business-oriented and technical bias of dominant global health actors (Birn, 2006), HSS is often approached as a technical challenge, focused on efforts to strengthen implementation and management structures within health service delivery, with little attention to the politics and social relations that shape health systems. This special issue aims to demonstrate the potential of ethnographic enquiry to reinvigorate a political – rather than technical – debate about ‘health systems’.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Storeng, Katerini T. and Mishra, Arima
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Global health, Health systems, Health policy, Medical anthropology,
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Full Text Status:	Public
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URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/233
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.941901

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