Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present

Jean-Germain Gros

Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
16 October 2015
Pages
302
ISBN
9781442235342

Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present

Jean-Germain Gros

A comparative study of healthcare policy in Africa, the book explores the impact of historical institutions, multilateral organizations, and informal norms, such as, respectively, colonialism, the World Health Organization, and the Western-inspired biomedical approach to disease on health policy choices, implementation, and results in Africa. In addition, it examines the role of international philanthropy, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Partners In Health, Doctors Without Borders, and the multitude of NGOs that pullulate the African healthcare landscape. The emphasis on these (f)actors, not to mention Cuban medical aid, clearly underscores the globalization of healthcare policy in Africa. The case studies of Botswana, Ghana, and Rwanda -three differently endowed countries economically that are also at varying stages of democratic rule- help to shed light on the influence of domestic political institutions and elite agency on healthcare policy processes across the continent.

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