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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Politics of Health"”.
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Social policy and the politics of health: Three empirical essays
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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The Politics of Health: Community Engagement in South African HIV Vaccine Trial Sites
This research responds to limited evidence of the social and political aspects of health biotechnologies. Reaching beyond the literature on trial participation, it explores the extent to which members of Community Advisory Boards (CABs) play meaningful political roles in South African vaccine …
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MOVING BODIES, FEELING HEALTH: EXAMINING THE EMBODIED POLITICS OF HEALTH-PROMOTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN SINGAPORE
… to reconfigure their environments to meet public health goals. This includes the city-state of Singapore that seeks to secure population access to physical activity by mobilising an infrastructural configuration in its health governance efforts. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 17 fitness …
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The Making of a 'Crisis': Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Health in Jordan
… years, the pace at which apparent refugee and health ‘crises’ – and their humanitarian responses – are being subsumed within foreign policy agendas appears to be accelerating. From the Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe in 2015, to the outbreak of Ebola, the Zika virus and, more recently, …
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The politics of health taxes: Understanding the power and influence of the food and alcohol industries in New Zealand
Background and Aims: The consumption of ultra-processed foods and alcohol are key risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—the leading cause of death and disability globally. Evidence-informed policies and interventions to reduce these risk factors are urgently required. However, around the …
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The U.S. Opioid Crisis and the Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Politics of Health Policy Decision-Making by Republican Governors, Senators, and States
The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 represented the most significant expansion of access to healthcare and health insurance in the modern United States. Support for the ACA, as well as a major component Medicaid expansion, was significantly dictated by …
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International Politics of Health Promotion and Tobacco Control - Improvement of the Process of Transcultural Transfer // Международна политика за промоция на здраве и контрол на тютюнопушенето - подобряване процеса на транскултурален трансфер
… the porting process (transcultural transfer) of European policy on health promotion and tobacco control to Bulgarian context is the subject of this thesis. Along with it, we try to identify the difficulties in this process and develop a performance improvement approach. International …
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Performance evaluation in the National Health Service - a systems approach
… models can make in the design and application of effective performance-evaluation processes. Approaches to performance assessment of organisations are reviewed, and the history and structure of the NHS, its objectives, and dimensions for evaluation are described. Drawing on questionnaire and …
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Antimalarial Afterlives: Medicine for a Planetary Age from Madagascar
… ethnographic dissertation investigates the politics of health and medicine in central Madagascar. Focusing on the island’s Covid-19 response, which revolved around the commercialization of “homegrown” pandemic therapeutics, I examine what made rapid development of “Made in Madagascar” …
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Binge-Restrict-Repeat: The Governmentality of Eating Regimes
… employs Michel Foucault's conceptualization of governmentality, or dispersed rationalities that seek to calculate and maximize the health of the population, to study how eating regimes of truth influence how individuals relate to their bodies and each other. Importantly, the study of eating …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
… food system, and the production and promotion of less healthy, heavily processed foods pose significant public health challenges. Decades of economic policies that have enabled the concentration of food production and retail among a small number of large, multinational corporations, and the …