Indigenous Peoples, Uncertainty and Exclusion in the Global South in Periods of the Pandemic

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5772/intechopen.98785 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Javier Lastra-Bravo

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Analytical Approach ◽

Global South ◽

Indigenous Groups ◽

Access To Health ◽

High Prevalence ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

Resilience Factors

The indigenous peoples are distributed in all regions of the world, representing more than 6% of the world’s population. According to UN data, the pandemic has disproportionately affected indigenous groups, aggravating the structural inequalities and processes of widespread historical discrimination and exclusion present in the Global South, for example, high rates of extreme poverty, social exclusion, high prevalence of the disease, and limited and in some cases non-existent access to health care. Also, indigenous peoples have a great wealth of knowledge, traditional practices, cultural forms, and access to natural resources, as well as forms of collective social organization and community life that result in resilience factors in response to adversity and uncertainty. In this way, the chapter focuses from a descriptive-analytical approach on the situation of indigenous peoples and the pandemic, analyzing the forms of responses, their resilient action in the face of uncertainties and structural exclusions in the Global South.

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Dimensions of Good Governance

Handbook of Research on Globalization, Investment, and Growth-Implications of Confidence and Governance - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8274-0.ch009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 176-190

Author(s):

Chhanda Mandal ◽

Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta

Keyword(s):

Good Governance ◽

Economic Recession ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Income Differentials ◽

Governance Indicators ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

Resilience Factors ◽

The Relationship

Effectiveness of governance is realised through its responses to any financial crisis. This was put in question as the Great Recession affected the core economies severely. This study empirically investigated the relationship between accountability, corruption, and government effectiveness during the period 2002-2012. Our main purpose was to highlight the sizable gap that exists in the performance literature on cross-country studies especially against the changing economic world scenario. A comparison of the World Bank governance indicators between three countries chosen on the basis of income differentials and hence different adaptive characteristics of each country to the economic recession has been studied. The behavior of the governance indicators in the context of the world has been examined against the background of the shock that the depression had brought and the resilience factors embedded within the indicators in the face of the shocks were studied.

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Has China’s Health Sector Development Matched the Rapid Growth in the Country?

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2017.v13n36p1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (36) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Marta Tripane

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Policy ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Health Sector ◽

The Third ◽

Health Area ◽

Access To Health ◽

The World ◽

Unequal Access

China is the world's largest country by population, the third largest by territory and the second largest world’s economy by GDP. Therefore it is important to follow the successes and failures of China in the field of health, because they affect the health area and processes in the world. This article includes retrospective analysis of empirical data to analyze the main inputs and outputs of China's health policy in order to identify the main problems and highlight the major challenges. In the article is concluded that main problems are related with insufficient and unequal access to health care.

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Screening endoscopy finds high prevalence ofHelicobacter pyloriand intestinal metaplasia in Korean American with limited access to health care

Journal of Surgical Oncology ◽

10.1002/jso.24622 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 116 (2) ◽

pp. 172-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yanghee Woo ◽

Carolyn E. Behrendt ◽

Garrick Trapp ◽

Jae Geun Hyun ◽

Tamas Gonda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Intestinal Metaplasia ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Korean American ◽

Limited Access ◽

Screening Endoscopy ◽

Access To Health ◽

High Prevalence

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Iran's Health Tourism Market during and after the Corona Pandemic and: Letter to the editor

Quarterly Journal of Management Strategies in Health System ◽

10.18502/mshsj.v5i3.4899 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hojjat Rahmani ◽

Mohammad Arab ◽

Jalal Saeedpour ◽

Ghasem Rajabi Vasokolaei ◽

Hiwa Mirzaii

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Human Beings ◽

Islamic Republic ◽

Health Tourism ◽

Seek Health Care ◽

Letter To The Editor ◽

Access To Health ◽

The World ◽

Islamic Republic Of Iran

The importance of maintaining and restoring health has always made human beings seek health care. Lack of proper access to health care, price and quality differences, as well as other factors among different countries have led to the formation of a long-standing industry called health tourism. Outbreak of coronavirus throughout the world has shocked and affected most countries. In this regard, the health tourism market of Islamic Republic of Iran was no an exception and was affected by this crisis. To meet this challenge, stakeholders of the health tourism market should determine their recession during this period, strengthen their weaknesses, and use the available opportunities. In this study, we intended to investigate effect of the coronavirus prevalence on the health tourism market of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Unravelling the strings attached: Philippine indigeneity in law and practice

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022463419000018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 107-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Noah Theriault

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Environmental Regulations ◽

Indigenous Rights ◽

Civil Case ◽

Ecological Balance ◽

Indigenous Groups ◽

The World ◽

Governmental Power ◽

Conservation Interventions ◽

Unexpected Consequences

After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, Philippine policymakers became the first in Asia to recognise indigeneity and Indigenous rights. By law, Indigenous groups throughout the archipelago now have priority rights to their ‘ancestral domains’, but in return they are expected to maintain an ‘ecological balance’ and cooperate with environmental regulations. As in many other parts of the world, the conditionalities of recognition mean that invocations of Indigenous rights often serve to initiate ever-deeper entanglements with governmental power. At the same time, however, Indigenous Peoples and their advocates do not approach the dilemmas of recognition as hapless bystanders; rather, they negotiate them in strategic and often unexpected ways. This article considers how members of Indigenous Palawan communities in the southwestern Philippines have used dominant policy assumptions to intervene in dispossessory processes. Specifically, I examine instances in which they have: (1) codified a ‘tradition’ of inheritance to influence legislative outcomes; (2) performed the policy narrative of ‘ecological balance’ to shape the outcome of conservation interventions; and (3) filed a civil case tacitly challenging official expectations that they govern themselves as homogenous collectivities. These examples, I argue, offer broader insights into the paradoxical and at times unexpected consequences of legislating Indigenous rights.

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Americans’ View of the Impact of COVID-19: Perspectives on Racial Impacts and Equity

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law ◽

10.1215/03616878-9156033 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine Carman ◽

Anita Chandra ◽

Carolyn Miller ◽

Christopher Nelson ◽

Jhacova Williams

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

African Americans ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

The Public ◽

Equity And Access ◽

Access To Health ◽

The Face ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

The Impact ◽

Over Time

Abstract Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on African Americans and Latino groups. But it is unknown how aware the public is of these differences, and how the pandemic has changed perceptions of equity and access to health care. Methods: We use panel data from nationally representative surveys fielded to the same respondents in 2018 and 2020 to assess views and changes in views over time. Findings: We found that awareness of inequity is highest among Non-Hispanic Black respondents and higher income and higher educated groups, and that there have been only small changes in perceptions of inequity over time. However, there have been significant changes in views of the government’s obligation ensure access to health care. Conclusions: Even in the face of a deadly pandemic, one that has killed disproportionately more African Americans and Latinos, many in the U.S. continue not to recognize that there are inequities in access to health care and the impact of COVID-19 on certain groups. But policies to address inequity may be shifting. We will continue to follow these respondents to see whether changes in attitudes endure over time or dissipate.

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Global Mapping of Indigenous Resilience Facing the Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Challenges ◽

10.3390/challe12010015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 15

Author(s):

Diosey Ramon Lugo-Morin

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Informal Institutions ◽

Development Scenarios ◽

Secure Access ◽

International Policies ◽

The World ◽

Global Mapping ◽

The Face ◽

Access To Food

Indigenous social development scenarios must be understood as the possibility of improving the sustainability of the planet and human health in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Integrating the institutional resilience approach by learning from the experience of indigenous peoples’ informal institutions through the design of public policies can be a reality. To demonstrate the potential of this premise, a case study was conducted that examined the institutional resilience of one indigenous people, whose findings under nomothetic conditions may be useful for other territories around the world. These peoples provide lessons on how they cope with adversity, the COVID-19 pandemic being one of them. Institutional resilience is a step towards reaching out to the world’s ancestral populations to learn from their knowledge. These scenarios can help us understand the implications of international policies on the capacities of nations to secure access to food and resources and, subsequently, to be better prepared for future pandemics.

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The English and Swedish Health Care Reforms

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.2190/blnn-d9ne-g3xq-wpew ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 231-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Howard Glennerster ◽

Manos Matsaganis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Health Care ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Universal Access ◽

The United States ◽

Health Care Reforms ◽

Swedish Health Care ◽

Early Results ◽

Access To Health ◽

The World

England and Sweden have two of the most advanced systems of universal access to health care in the world. Both have begun major reforms based on similar principles. Universal access and finance from taxation are retained, but a measure of competition between providers of health care is introduced. The reforms therefore show a movement toward the kind of approach advocated by some in the United States. This article traces the origins and early results of the two countries' reform efforts.

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Generations of Stateless People: Many Years of The Rohingya’s Personal Security at Risk and the Support of the EU

Security Dimensions ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.8238 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (35) ◽

pp. 22-49

Author(s):

Katarzyna Daniel

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Historical Context ◽

The European Union ◽

Humanitarian Crisis ◽

Personal Security ◽

Access To Health ◽

The World ◽

The 1960S

The Rohingya is an ethnic-religious Muslim minority that has struggled with serious human rights violations for decades. Indian migration to Burma, stimulated by British colonial rule, is pointed to as the main cause of the Muslim-Buddhist conflict. Although Indians in Burma currently constitute a fraction of the population (2.3%), resentment remained. The aim of the article is to analyze the threats to many aspects of the personal security of the Rohingya population. It is one of the most populous groups of stateless persons in the world; moreover, since the 1960s, this ethnic group has experienced oppression on a huge scale: from restrictions related to work and movement as well as difficult access to health care and education, through deprivation of civil rights , to physical violence and even death. All this is happening in the 21st century in front of the world. In order to better understand the Rohingya conflict with the Burmese army, the historical context and the course of the conflict were presented. The assistance activities of the European Union and possible solutions to this humanitarian crisis were also indicated.

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