Local Maladies, Global Remedies

Local Maladies, Global Remedies

Reclaiming the Right to Health in Latin America

Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

06/2022

232

Dura

Inglês

9781800376533

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: The right to health in action: an introduction PART I THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH 1. The elusive search for the minimum core of the right to health 2. The political economy of the right to health: a terrain for contestation 3. The judicialization of health care in the Global South PART II LOCAL MALADIES: THE EPIDEMIC OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN BRAZIL AND COLOMBIA 4. Health system reform and the rise of litigiousness in Brazil and Colombia 5. The HIV/AIDS pandemic and the plight of vulnerable patients: understanding the first wave of litigiousness in Brazil and Colombia (1990-2000) 6. Riding a second wave (2000-2020): the downstream approach and the rise of "high-cost patients" 7. A case study of patients' organizations: between good causes and hidden clients 8. Stopping a litigation epidemic: lessons from Colombia and Brazil's highest courts The promise of the right to health, and why we have to keep it: closing reflections Bibliography Index
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Right to health, Latin America, Litigation, Brazil, Colombia