Health policy in a time of crisis :
Ostrach, Bayla,
Health policy in a time of crisis : Abortion, austerity, and access / Bayla Ostrach. - xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology . - Advances in critical medical anthropology. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
People, policy, and practice -- Catalunya, crisis and cuts -- Uneasy collaboration -- Las Does (The Women) -- Confronting obstacles.
This timely book examines a fundamental international issue in health care access: the gap between codified policy-including health laws that guarantee access to particular kinds of health care as a human right, right of citizenship, or right of residence-and the actual ability of people to receive the supposedly guaranteed health services. The author-draws on her extensive fieldwork at an abortion clinic in Catalonia, Spain, to reveal the diverse problems women, and other marginalized people, face in seeking health-care services;-examines the larger political-economic and cultural contexts of Catalonian society to show how women can and do overcome obstacles;-using the ethnography of the abortion clinic, analyzes the impact of economic crisis, and the resulting shifts in cultural and political identities, on women's and providers' perceptions of proper access to public health services;-looks beyond Spain-to Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere-to the global problem regarding the delivery of health care to powerless peoples.- -
9781629583648 1629583642 9781629583655 1629583650
2017302092
Public health--Spain--Catalonia.
Medical policy--Spain--Catalonia.
Women's health services--Spain--Catalonia.
Public Health.
Abortion, Legal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Women's health services.
Spain.
Spain--Catalonia.
RA516.C37 / O88 2017
362.109467 / OSH
WA 540 G56 O85h 2017
Health policy in a time of crisis : Abortion, austerity, and access / Bayla Ostrach. - xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology . - Advances in critical medical anthropology. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
People, policy, and practice -- Catalunya, crisis and cuts -- Uneasy collaboration -- Las Does (The Women) -- Confronting obstacles.
This timely book examines a fundamental international issue in health care access: the gap between codified policy-including health laws that guarantee access to particular kinds of health care as a human right, right of citizenship, or right of residence-and the actual ability of people to receive the supposedly guaranteed health services. The author-draws on her extensive fieldwork at an abortion clinic in Catalonia, Spain, to reveal the diverse problems women, and other marginalized people, face in seeking health-care services;-examines the larger political-economic and cultural contexts of Catalonian society to show how women can and do overcome obstacles;-using the ethnography of the abortion clinic, analyzes the impact of economic crisis, and the resulting shifts in cultural and political identities, on women's and providers' perceptions of proper access to public health services;-looks beyond Spain-to Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere-to the global problem regarding the delivery of health care to powerless peoples.- -
9781629583648 1629583642 9781629583655 1629583650
2017302092
Public health--Spain--Catalonia.
Medical policy--Spain--Catalonia.
Women's health services--Spain--Catalonia.
Public Health.
Abortion, Legal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Women's health services.
Spain.
Spain--Catalonia.
RA516.C37 / O88 2017
362.109467 / OSH
WA 540 G56 O85h 2017