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Health policy in a time of crisis : Abortion, austerity, and access / Bayla Ostrach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in critical medical anthropologyPublisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: �2017Description: xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781629583648
  • 1629583642
  • 9781629583655
  • 1629583650
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.109467 23 OSH
LOC classification:
  • RA516.C37 O88 2017
NLM classification:
  • WA 540 G56 O85h 2017
Contents:
People, policy, and practice -- Catalunya, crisis and cuts -- Uneasy collaboration -- Las Does (The Women) -- Confronting obstacles.
Summary: 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.- - Source other than the Library of Congress.
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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.- - Source other than the Library of Congress.

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