Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare

David Primrose is Lecturer in Health Policy and Planning at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data, University of Sydney, AustraliaRodney Loeppky is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Canada.Robin Chang is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Canada.

‘A smorgasbord of insights into the world of healthcare, it is a celebration of the very best of political economy with its capacity to make sense of economic and social issues with immediate relevance for the health and well-being of humans.’Fran Collyer, Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong, and President RC08 International Sociological Association‘This book, containing a commendably broad array of chapters by international experts, takes stock of these main strands of research and the insights they offer. Right up-to-date, it looks at the key political economic lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking to the future, it identifies what changes to political economic arrangements would be conducive to creating healthy societies. It is an eye-opener and a must-read.’Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney‘This handbook is a vital contribution to our understanding of an impressive range of topics and critical perspectives. It diagnoses urgent shortcomings in the current system and offers constructive approaches for reducing health harms.’Susan K. Sell, Professor of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University‘The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare makes a superb contribution to the necessary and inevitable literature of what went wrong with the institutions responsible for the COVID-19 crisis.’Robert Chernomas, Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba

• 1. Revitalizing the political economy of health and healthcare in a context of crisis PART I Theorizing health and healthcare 2. Mainstream health economics and the COVID-19 pandemic 3. The economics of conventions 4. Understanding Marx on health: Towards a class-based approach 5. Feminist political economy, health and care 6. Post-Keynesian economics and healthcare 7. New materialisms and the (critical) micropolitical economy of health 8. A lop-sided reflation: The limited contribution of behavioral economics to the political economy of obesity PART II Contemporary political economic dimensions of health 9. A critical political economy of health inequities 10. Issues of social reproduction and the political economy of health 11. Health and the corporate agri-food system 12. Neoliberalism and health in global context: The role of international organizations 13.Neoliberalism and mental health 14. Occupational health and safety in the global garment industry 15. Political economy and social epidemiology in the context of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa 16. Digital health and capitalism 17. The political economy of health and place: From the Great Compression to COVID-19 PART III Contemporary political-economic dimensions of healthcare 18. Commodified healthcare, profits, priorities and the disregard for life under capitalism 19. The financialization of long-term care in Canada: The case of Ontario 20. The anatomy of Big Pharma 21. Automating the welfare state: The case of disability benefits and services 22. Understanding the health-politics nexus in the shadow of populism: Towards a political science of, and for, health 23. Trade and investment: The re-ordering of healthcare and public health policy? 24. Universal health coverage: A case-study of the political economy of global health PART IV Geographical varieties of health and healthcare 25. The critical political economy of Latin America’s healthcare systems: A century of struggles 26. The political economy of healthcare policy in Africa in the age of COVID-19 27. Transformation of healthcare in China: The pre-and post-Maoist eras 28. The political economy of health and healthcare in India 29. The political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis 30. Healthcare in Australia: Contesting marketized provision 31. The political economy of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom 32. Health and healthcare in the United States 33. The new health politics of austerity in Europe PART V Alternative paths toward health and healthcare 34. Social welfare and alternative forms of health provision: The UK experience and radical new frontiers 35. The need for comprehensive primary healthcare 36. The political economy of healthcare as commons: Exploring the commons health system and Indigenous peoples 37. Diverse economies of care-full healthcare: Banking and sharing human milk 38. The political economy of health and degrowth 39. Cuban medical internationalism: A radical alternative approach to medical ‘aid’ 40. The transition to post-capitalist health and healthcare