Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access

ISBN-13: 9781629583655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 190 str.

Bayla Ostrach

Opis

Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded abortion care. Situating their access in the context of austerity and threats to recently liberalized abortion laws, the book examines the actual level of access, disparities in access between communities, and the diverse approaches adopted to overcome obstacles to abortion care. Accounts from both abortion providers and women seeking care are contextualized by Ostrach s richly grounded analysis of what they reveal about healthcare systems during periods of economic crisis and disagreement over reproductive governance. The result is at once an important case study on true access to public health care and a compelling account of some women s determination to go to any length to get the health care they need. Engagingly written, it will make interesting reading for scholars, students and policymakers in the field of public health, as well as for the general reader concerned with the politics of abortion and public health."

Spis treści

1. People, Policy & Practice  2. Catalunya, Crisis, and Cuts  3. Uneasy Collaboration  4. Las Dones (The Women)  5. Enfrentando Obstáculos (Confronting Obstacles)

O autorze

Bayla Ostrach is an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice, appointed in the Family Medicine Department at Boston University School of Medicine. An applied medical anthropologist by training, their research is designed to be returned to affected communities that seek to prompt changes in policy and practice.