Maureen Mackintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 143277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Mackintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MACKINTOSH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7000-4686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Building technological capabilities for local MedTech transformation in Africa
Medical devices (MDs) are crucial to the capabilities of a health system; however, their supply chains for African healthcare systems are under-researched. Kenya serves as a strong illustrative case: despite having robust manufacturing bases in East Africa, the health system is primarily import-dependent, and local MD manufacturing capacity is limited. This article employs a novel ‘capability–knowledge base matrix’, integrating the conceptual app…
Local manufacturing, local supply chains and health security in Africa
African commentators have long emphasised the importance of local manufacturing for local health security, but the argument has struggled to gain an international hearing. \n \nCOVID-19 has, however, demonstrated the health dangers from extreme import dependence and low purchasing power; it has also shown the scope and capability for local industrial innovation. \n \nLocal innovation and manufacturing scale-up during the pandemic was facilitated …
Upgrading under globalization in health-related industries in Tanzania
Globalization of markets and production networks has made it progressively harder for low income countries to industrialize. This article addresses a conundrum facing industrial firms and industrial policy in a low-income African country: how to achieve upgrading necessary for sustained competitiveness. Using data from a study of manufacturers of health products in Tanzania, we document the double 'squeeze' on firms' profits exerted by sharp pric…
Health-industry linkages for local health
The benefits of local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa for local access to medicines and to effective treatment remain contested. There is scepticism among health systems experts internationally that production of pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can provide competitive prices, quality and reliability of supply. Meanwhile low-income African populations continue to suffer poor access to a broad range of medicines, despite major i…
What is the private sector? Understanding private provision in the health systems of low-income and middle-income countries
Local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa and access to essential medicines
BACKGROUND: International policy towards access to essential medicines in Africa has focused until recently on international procurement of large volumes of medicines, mainly from Indian manufacturers, and their import and distribution. This emphasis is now being challenged by renewed policy interest in the potential benefits of local pharmaceutical production and supply. However, there is a shortage of evidence on the role of locally produced me…
Domestic Labour and the Household
A central theoretical concern of the Women's Movement in britain and elsewhere in the capitalist West has always been the analysis of the relation of the family to capitalism, or, more precisely, the relation of women's struggles within and concerning the family to her struggles in the sphere of wage work and other aspects of more public life. The debate over the theoretical analysis of domestic labour is just one of many attempts to address this…
Protecting the public or setting the bar too high? Understanding the causes and consequences of regulatory actions of front-line regulators and specialized drug shop operators in Kenya
Can NGOs regulate medicines markets? Social enterprise in wholesaling, and access to essential medicines
BACKGROUND: Citizens of high income countries rely on highly regulated medicines markets. However low income countries' impoverished populations generally struggle for access to essential medicines through out-of-pocket purchase on poorly regulated markets; results include ill health, drug resistance and further impoverishment. While the role of health facilities owned by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in low income countries is well docum…
Indian Generics Producers, Access to Essential Medicines and Local Production in Africa
Global Public Health Security
The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century . Geneva : World Health Organization , 2007 . 72 pp . CHF40.00/$36.00 paperback . The flagship publications of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have become key policy fora in their own right. They raise issues and reshape intellectual agendas; they seek to extend or reshape the mandate of particular organizations; they raise the …
Competitive and Organisational Constraints on Innovation, Investment and Quality of Care in a Liberalised Low-income Health System
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
The market shaping of charges, trust and abuse
Inclusion by design? rethinking health care market regulation in the Tanzanian context
Inclusion by Design? Rethinking Health Care Market Regulation in the Tanzanian Context
In Tanzania, as in many other low income countries, health care is largely obtained through out-of pocket payment. The current liberalised health care market displays a pattern of exclusion, impoverishment, abuse and poor quality care alongside substantial patches of accessibility and probity, while the government has few resources for inspection and control. This article summarises new evidence on these points. It argues that it is nevertheless …
Flexible Contracting? Economic Cultures and Implicit Contracts in Social Care
Drawing on case studies from two local authorities, this article identifies two distinct economic cultures in social care contracting. An arms-length contracting culture was emerging in interaction with risk-averse commercial suppliers, while a 'partnership' contracting culture was developing in association with non-profit providers who actively sought risk and responsibility. The article explores the discursive construction of the distinct impli…
Economic culture and quasi‐markets in local government
Trading work
Local authorities increasingly use ‘trading’ language to describe and debate inter and intra-departmental working relations. This article explores the meanings given to this contested language in context, drawing on case studies of internal trading in two authorities. The objective of this interpretative exercise in economic discourse is to explore the extent to which a dominant discourse of internal ‘trading’ exists within the two authorities, a…
Competition and Contracting in Selective Social Provisioning
Unpaid Labour and Economic Policy
Partnership
"Partnership " has become one of the code words of our times in the field of public policy generally, and local economic develop-ment in particular. Central government has promoted public-private partnership as the solution to inner city economic decay
Structures and Networks in the British Health Service Reforms
The current British health service reforms are an example of public service reorganization based on ‘public choice’ theoretical assumptions. This article examines the logic of these reforms, considered as a model for export. It argues that they are based on doubtful assumptions about the market they seek to create, and that their internal logic threatens the quality of service provision. The diversity of response to the reforms in practice demons…
Gender, Class and Rural Transition
A Taste of Power
The market shaping of charges, trust and abuse
Reproduction and Patriarchy
Agricultural marketing and socialist accumulation
This article analyses maize marketing and its implications for producers, traders and consumers in one area of Mozambique before and after Independence. On the basis of this case, it discusses some of the policy problems encountered by the Mozambican government between 1977 and 1983 in planning agricultural marketing in the context of the wider objective of socialist transformation and development of agriculture. Notes Research Fellow, Developmen…
Indian Generics Producers, Access to Essential Medicines and Local Production in Africa
Flexible Contracting? Economic Cultures and Implicit Contracts in Social Care
Drawing on case studies from two local authorities, this article identifies two distinct economic cultures in social care contracting. An arms-length contracting culture was emerging in interaction with risk-averse commercial suppliers, while a 'partnership' contracting culture was developing in association with non-profit providers who actively sought risk and responsibility. The article explores the discursive construction of the distinct impli…
Economic culture and quasi‐markets in local government
Fruit and vegetables as an international commodity
Economic tactics
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Competition and Contracting in Selective Social Provisioning
Economic Policy Context and Adjustment Options in Mozambique
Gender, Class and Rural Transition
Upgrading under globalization in health-related industries in Tanzania
Globalization of markets and production networks has made it progressively harder for low income countries to industrialize. This article addresses a conundrum facing industrial firms and industrial policy in a low-income African country: how to achieve upgrading necessary for sustained competitiveness. Using data from a study of manufacturers of health products in Tanzania, we document the double 'squeeze' on firms' profits exerted by sharp pric…
Competitive and Organisational Constraints on Innovation, Investment and Quality of Care in a Liberalised Low-income Health System
Health-industry linkages for local health
The benefits of local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa for local access to medicines and to effective treatment remain contested. There is scepticism among health systems experts internationally that production of pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can provide competitive prices, quality and reliability of supply. Meanwhile low-income African populations continue to suffer poor access to a broad range of medicines, despite major i…
The Charity of Nations
Journal Article The Charity of Nations: The political economy of foreign aid Get access The Charity of Nations: The political economy of foreign aid, by David Wall. Macmillan, 1973. 181 pp. £3.95. Promoting African Enterprise, by Bruce Dinwiddy. Croom Holm/ODI, 1974. 118pp. MAUREEN M. MACKINTOSH MAUREEN M. MACKINTOSH Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
Fruit and vegetables as an international commodity
Femmes, Greniers et Capitaux
Journal Article Femmes, Greniers et Capitaux Get access Femmes, Greniers et Capitaux, by Claude Meillassoux. Maspero, Paris, 1975. 256pp. Tables, bibliography. 40,00FF. MAUREEN M. MACKINTOSH MAUREEN M. MACKINTOSH Institute of Development StudiesSussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 113-114, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096803 Publ…
Reproduction and Patriarchy
Economic tactics
Economic Policy Context and Adjustment Options in Mozambique
Socialist Enterprise
Agricultural marketing and socialist accumulation
This article analyses maize marketing and its implications for producers, traders and consumers in one area of Mozambique before and after Independence. On the basis of this case, it discusses some of the policy problems encountered by the Mozambican government between 1977 and 1983 in planning agricultural marketing in the context of the wider objective of socialist transformation and development of agriculture. Notes Research Fellow, Developmen…
Accumulation, social services and socialist transition in the third world
The purpose of this article is to argue for the viability, and the logic, of a distinctive approach to planning economic development and socialist transition in poor economies. The components of this distinctive approach are: more decentralised, and popularly‐based, planning and control of accumulation; the close interlinking of investment in social services and in rural production; and an emphasis on intervention in the market as a tool of socia…
Gender, Class and Rural Transition
Partnership
"Partnership " has become one of the code words of our times in the field of public policy generally, and local economic develop-ment in particular. Central government has promoted public-private partnership as the solution to inner city economic decay
Structures and Networks in the British Health Service Reforms
The current British health service reforms are an example of public service reorganization based on ‘public choice’ theoretical assumptions. This article examines the logic of these reforms, considered as a model for export. It argues that they are based on doubtful assumptions about the market they seek to create, and that their internal logic threatens the quality of service provision. The diversity of response to the reforms in practice demons…
Unpaid Labour and Economic Policy
Competition and Contracting in Selective Social Provisioning
Economic culture and quasi‐markets in local government
Trading work
Local authorities increasingly use ‘trading’ language to describe and debate inter and intra-departmental working relations. This article explores the meanings given to this contested language in context, drawing on case studies of internal trading in two authorities. The objective of this interpretative exercise in economic discourse is to explore the extent to which a dominant discourse of internal ‘trading’ exists within the two authorities, a…
Flexible Contracting? Economic Cultures and Implicit Contracts in Social Care
Drawing on case studies from two local authorities, this article identifies two distinct economic cultures in social care contracting. An arms-length contracting culture was emerging in interaction with risk-averse commercial suppliers, while a 'partnership' contracting culture was developing in association with non-profit providers who actively sought risk and responsibility. The article explores the discursive construction of the distinct impli…
Inclusion by design? rethinking health care market regulation in the Tanzanian context
Inclusion by Design? Rethinking Health Care Market Regulation in the Tanzanian Context
In Tanzania, as in many other low income countries, health care is largely obtained through out-of pocket payment. The current liberalised health care market displays a pattern of exclusion, impoverishment, abuse and poor quality care alongside substantial patches of accessibility and probity, while the government has few resources for inspection and control. This article summarises new evidence on these points. It argues that it is nevertheless …
The market shaping of charges, trust and abuse
Competitive and Organisational Constraints on Innovation, Investment and Quality of Care in a Liberalised Low-income Health System
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Global Public Health Security
The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century . Geneva : World Health Organization , 2007 . 72 pp . CHF40.00/$36.00 paperback . The flagship publications of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have become key policy fora in their own right. They raise issues and reshape intellectual agendas; they seek to extend or reshape the mandate of particular organizations; they raise the …
Indian Generics Producers, Access to Essential Medicines and Local Production in Africa
Can NGOs regulate medicines markets? Social enterprise in wholesaling, and access to essential medicines
BACKGROUND: Citizens of high income countries rely on highly regulated medicines markets. However low income countries' impoverished populations generally struggle for access to essential medicines through out-of-pocket purchase on poorly regulated markets; results include ill health, drug resistance and further impoverishment. While the role of health facilities owned by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in low income countries is well docum…
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