scholarly journals Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom

Public Choice ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Public Choice Theory ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
The Road ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Public Health Governance ◽  
Freedom Of Action

AbstractThis paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Friedrich Hayek to understand threats to personal and enterprise freedom, arising from public health governance. Whereas public choice theory examines the incentives these institutions provide to agents, the analysis here understands those incentives as framed by discursive social constructions that affect the identity, power, and positionality of different actors. It shows how overlapping discourses of scientific rationalism may generate a ‘road to serfdom’ narrowing freedom of action and expression across an expanding terrain. As such, the paper contributes to the growing literature emphasising the importance of narratives, stories and metaphors as shaping political economic action in ways feeding through to outcomes and institutions.

Public health governance:

2020 ◽  
pp. 383-406
Author(s):  
Vivian Lin ◽  
James Smith ◽  
Sally Fawkes ◽  
Priscilla Robinson ◽  
Sandy Gifford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Public Health Governance

scholarly journals Collaborative governance of public health in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from research in public administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (Suppl 4) ◽  
pp. e000381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Public Health Governance ◽  
Policy Arenas

Multisectoral governance, one of many terms used to describe collaborative, cross-boundary approaches to solving complex public problems, is being applied broadly in several policy arenas, most notably in environmental and natural resource management, but increasingly in public health in multiple settings and scales around the globe. This paper explores how to transfer knowledge about collaborative governance to challenging public health settings found in low-income and moderate-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents a general background on collaborative governance, summarises some relevant empirical findings on the performance of collaborative governance and lays out some of the challenges and considerations for thinking about improving collaborative public health governance in LMICs.

scholarly journals Lessons from Covid-19: A Plan for Action (Pages 59-67) in Journal of the Harvard Club of India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Datta Ghosh ◽  
Rakesh Sarwal
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Preventive Healthcare ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
Public Health Governance ◽  
Effective Public Health

The need for a National Public Health Agency in India is of crucial relevance today. Along with a responsive public health system, we need to focus on preventive healthcare and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. The country, as it marks its 75th year of Independence, must remember that it is essential to bring in structural change for effective public health governance.

scholarly journals PANDEMONIUM IN PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE – A SNAPSHOT ON COVID CRISIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-64
Author(s):  
M. Madhuri Irene
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Eye Health ◽  
1918 Influenza ◽  
Public Health Governance

Covid-19 confirmed idiocy of intelligence and perils of powers exasperating the governance ethics of globe and castrated canons of human values. Corona blasted derisively the tenacity and techniques of 'Corona meter' in recording the victimization of health, wealth, economy, environment, education, and governance genuflection before the virility and victory of undaunted virus of SARS genesis. Learned gentry captioned the proliferation of Corona virus as 'Pandemic' of course with doubtful accuracy. The reference of pandemic as a term could have been justified in earlier historical cases of influenza, plague, ebola and SARs etc gracing the meaning of “a set of mutually exacerbating catastrophes” (referring to 1918 Influenza episode) but the present global Corona death dance devastating the material and mental health of individuals, institutions and society needs, probably, a better and appropriate word or phrase. Surprisingly, even before the blink of an eye, health crisis is transformed into multiple conundrums – economic, research, medical, political and governance mocking at all public and private institutions.

scholarly journals Learning from COVID-19: a systems approach for public health governance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieling Liu ◽  
Yurong Wu ◽  
Cunrui Huang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Economic Goods ◽  
Public Health Governance ◽  
And Control

Abstract The COVID-19 rapidly evolved into a global pandemic. Countries have taken measures widely to prevent and control the epidemic. China for example, has control the spread effectively, while many countries are still striving to cope with the increasing COVID-19 confirmed cases. The epidemic revealed serious problems of public health governance in many countries with long lasting social and economic consequences. This commentary reviews the pandemic response measures in five selected countries: China, Italy, the United States, Brazil and India. Building on critical reflections on the problems incurred in each country's pandemic responses, we provide a theoretical framework to reconceptualize public health as multiple types of economic goods. We further couple this reconceptualization with a systems approach to public health and wellbeing to offer new thinking on health governance. Finally, we propose suggestions for better, preventative and comprehensive epidemic prevention and health governance in an increasing urban future.

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