Vicente Navarro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620073 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vicente Navarro |
| PRENOMES | Vicente |
| SOBRENOME | Navarro |
| ASSINATURA | NAVARRO V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidade Johns Hopkins |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6629-9293 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 230 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What Is Happening in the United States
In order to understand what is happening in the United States, in the aftermath of the presidential election, one needs to comprehend the distribution of power in the country
Salt crystallization dynamics in indoor environments
The Political Economy of Social Inequalities
Introduction PART I REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH A Historical Review (1965-1997) of Studies on Class, Health, and Quality of Life: A Personal Account Vicente Navarro PART II CAUSES FOR THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE Neoliberalism, Globalization, Unemployment, Inequalities, and the Welfare State Vicente Navarro Health and Equity in the World in the Era of Globalization Vicente Navarro The Political Economy of t…
Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities
Determination of the hygric properties of the heritage stone of the Cathedral of Cuenca through the water absorption by capillarity test
Why hasn’t China’s high-profile health reform (2003–2012) delivered? An analysis of its neoliberal roots
In March 2013, China’s so-called fourth generation of leadership stepped down. Upon taking office a decade ago, they launched a series of high-profile health reform programmes, which have often been touted as a prime example of their commitment to prioritizing social welfare. However, throughout their period in power the reform remained remarkably unsuccessful at delivering as promised. This paper explains the failure. Unlike most of the existing…
The Social Crisis of the Eurozone
This article discusses the consequences of the austerity policies promoted by the European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund and applied to the peripheral countries of the Eurozone, including Spain. In addition to deteriorating the economic conditions of these countries, these policies are hurting the social well-being of their populations.
Formation, infill, and dissection of a latest-Pleistocene landslide-dammed reservoir (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain)
Consequences of the Privatized Funding of Medical Care and of the Privatized Electoral Process
In the article the author reflects on the U.S. health care system. 47 million Americans are without health insurance coverage and insurance is primarily acquired through employment benefits. He opines that health care problems are caused by the privatization of campaign funding and the organization of medical care. Funding for political candidates comes from private sources such as insurance, pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies. He dis…
What We Mean by Social Determinants of Health
This article analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and other international agencies. It challenges interpretations by the analysts of “globalization,” including the common assumption that stat…
History of the Social Determinants of Health
Reviewed by: History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates Vicente Navarro Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, and Anne Hardy, eds. History of the Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates. New Perspectives in South Asian History 22. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2009. xvi + 364 pp. Ill. $16.50 (978-81-250-3508-4). The extensive literature produced over the past fi…
Neoliberalism and its Consequences
Neoliberalism as a Class Ideology; Or, the Political Causes of the Growth of Inequalities
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology permeating the public policies of many governments in developed and developing countries and of international agencies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and many technical agencies of the United Nations, including the World Health Organization. This ideology postulates that the reduction of state interventions in economic and social activities and the deregulation…
What is a National Health Policy?
Unfortunately, most nation states have taken “health policy” to mean “medical care policy.” Medical care, however, is only one variable in a nation's health equation. The article describes what the main components of a national health policy should be, including (1) the political, economic, social, and cultural determinants of health, the most important determinants of health in any country; (2) the lifestyle determinants, which have been the mos…
Politics and health outcomes
The Worldwide Class Struggle
A trademark of our times is the dominance of neoliberalism in the major economic, political, and social forums of the developed capitalist countries and in the international agencies they influence-including the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the technical agencies of the United Nations such as the World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization, and UNICEF. Starting in the United States during the Carter administration, neoliber…
Is Globalization Undermining the Welfare State? The Evolution of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist Countries during the 1990s
The authors analyze the evolution of macro-indicators of social and economic well-being during the 1990s in the majority of developed capitalist countries, grouped according to their dominant political traditions since the end of World War II. Their analysis shows that, despite the economic globalization of commerce and finance, “politics still matters” in explaining the evolution of the welfare states and labor markets in these countries; the im…
Inequalities are Unhealthy
The growing inequalities we are witnessing in the world today are having a very negative impact on the health and quality of life of its populations. It is true, as many conservatives and neoliberal authors continue to stress, that health indicators are improving in many parts of the world, including in many underdeveloped countries. But what these authors are not saying is that the rate of improvements in these indicators have slowed down in mos…
Introduction
This article introduces a series of research projects (carried out by the International Network on Social Inequalities and Health) focused on the impact of politics on policy and the consequences for health and quality of life, an area that has been understudied in the social science literature. The introduction describes the conceptual model that guided the research, centered on the study of how political parties and social agents (such as trade…
Policy Without Politics
The extent of coverage provided by a country’s health services is directly related to the level of development of that country’s democratic process (and its power relations). The United States is the only developed country whose government does not guarantee access to health care for its citizens. It is also the developed country with the least representative and most insufficient democratic institutions, owing to the constitutional framework of …
The Inhuman State of U.S. Health Care
The health sector of the United States is in profound disarray. Even though the United States spends more on health care (14 percent of its GNP) than any other country, we still have problems that no other developed capitalist country faces. Let me list some of them. The first and most overwhelming problem is that no less than forty-four million of our people have no form of health benefits coverage whatsoever. The majority of them are working pe…
A Critique of Social Capital
This article critiques the concepts of communitarianism and social capital as used in the United States and in Europe. For the United States, the author focuses on Robert Putnam's understanding of both concepts, showing that the apolitical analysis of the Progressive Era, of the progressive developments in Northern Italy, and of the situation of labor unions in the United States is not only insufficient but wrong. The critique also includes the d…
The Promise of the Third Way
The Political Economy of Social Inequalities
The World Health Report 2000
ON JUNE 24, 2000, THE World Health Organization published its World Health Report 2000, Health Systems: Improving Performance, which ranked countries according to an overall single indicator of the performance of their health care systems.1 This indicator was an aggregate of 3 other indicators that supposedly measured (1) effectiveness of health care (basically, medical care and public health services), (2) responsiveness of the health care syste…
The political context of social inequalities and health
A critique of the ideological and political positions of the Willy Brandt report and the WHO Alma ata declaration
Social class, political power and the state and their implications in medicine
The Limitations of Legitimation and Fordism and the Possibility for Socialist Reforms
(1991). The Limitations of Legitimation and Fordism and the Possibility for Socialist Reforms. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 27-60
Neoliberalism and its Consequences
Produção e estado de bem-estar
The Crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications for the Welfare State
This article analyzes the current crisis of the international capitalist order and its consequences for the welfare state policies of developed and underdeveloped capitalist countries. Special emphasis is given to the impact of the crisis on state health care policies in those countries. The first part discusses capital's and labor's response to the crisis, with special focus on (a) capital's political and ideological interventions in the areas o…
Social Security and Medicine in the USSR
The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment
In this presentation it is postulated that the present maldistribution of human health resources in Latin America is brought about by the same determinants that cause the underdevelopment of most of that continent. It is indicated that contrary to the theories of development prevalent in the corridors of power and academic circles of developed countries (as well as in the leading circles of developing countries and in the international agencies) …
Determination of the hygric properties of the heritage stone of the Cathedral of Cuenca through the water absorption by capillarity test
Policy Without Politics
The extent of coverage provided by a country’s health services is directly related to the level of development of that country’s democratic process (and its power relations). The United States is the only developed country whose government does not guarantee access to health care for its citizens. It is also the developed country with the least representative and most insufficient democratic institutions, owing to the constitutional framework of …
Existe uma terceira via? uma resposta à 'terceira via' de Giddens
Discute-se o livro em que Anthony Giddens propõe uma 'terceira via' como solução política mais adequada para às sociedades contemporâneas. Sustenta-se que as posições de Giddens são menos originais do que ele julga, e em vários pontos retomam propostas já bem estabelecidas da Democracia Cristã européia
Has Socialism Failed? An Analysis of Health Indicators under Capitalism and Socialism
According to a widely held position in academia and the mainstream press, capitalism has proven superior to socialism in responding to human needs. However, analysis of health conditions of populations continent by continent shows that, contrary to dominant ideology, socialism and socialist forces have, for the most part, been better able than capitalism and capitalist forces to improve health conditions. In the underdeveloped world, socialist fo…
Welfare e 'keynesianismo militarista' na era Reagan
Historical Triumph
Thank you very much for inviting me to comment on the issue, widely debated today, of the assumed superiority of capitalism over socialism. The mainstream media bombard us day after day with the message that the historical conflict between these two approaches to human social development has already been resolved in favor of capitalism. This message is even heard in some sectors of the left in this country: Robert Heilbroner, a political economis…
Welfare States and Their Distributive Effects
The Limits of the World Systems Theory in Defining Capitalist and Socialist Formations
The World Health Report 2000
ON JUNE 24, 2000, THE World Health Organization published its World Health Report 2000, Health Systems: Improving Performance, which ranked countries according to an overall single indicator of the performance of their health care systems.1 This indicator was an aggregate of 3 other indicators that supposedly measured (1) effectiveness of health care (basically, medical care and public health services), (2) responsiveness of the health care syste…
Radicalism, Marxism and medicine
This article presents a critique of recent radical interpretations of medicine and provides an alternative explanation of such interpretations. It analyzes 1) the articulation of medical practices, knowledge, and institutions within specific modes of production and social formations; 2) the dual functions of medicine within capitalist relations of production; 3) the reproduction of power within medicine; and 4) the meaning of capitalist, socialis…
The Rainbow Coalition and the Challenge of Class; Racism and Class
Dear Sheila Collins: I have just read your book, The Rainbow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics (Monthly Review Press, 1987). What a treat! When I started reading it I could not stop. I was so absorbed in it that I had to put aside everything else I was doing in order to finish the book. It is an excellent piece! You have put together the best written record of one of the most exciting pages of our history. As an over…
Salt crystallization dynamics in indoor environments
Why hasn’t China’s high-profile health reform (2003–2012) delivered? An analysis of its neoliberal roots
In March 2013, China’s so-called fourth generation of leadership stepped down. Upon taking office a decade ago, they launched a series of high-profile health reform programmes, which have often been touted as a prime example of their commitment to prioritizing social welfare. However, throughout their period in power the reform remained remarkably unsuccessful at delivering as promised. This paper explains the failure. Unlike most of the existing…
Consequences of the Privatized Funding of Medical Care and of the Privatized Electoral Process
In the article the author reflects on the U.S. health care system. 47 million Americans are without health insurance coverage and insurance is primarily acquired through employment benefits. He opines that health care problems are caused by the privatization of campaign funding and the organization of medical care. Funding for political candidates comes from private sources such as insurance, pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies. He dis…
The Worldwide Class Struggle
A trademark of our times is the dominance of neoliberalism in the major economic, political, and social forums of the developed capitalist countries and in the international agencies they influence-including the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the technical agencies of the United Nations such as the World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization, and UNICEF. Starting in the United States during the Carter administration, neoliber…
Class and Race
As you may have noticed, class is rarely discussed in the scientific and mainstream media in the United States; it is considered an almost un-American category. In other countries, class is an extremely important category in understanding how people live, work, dress, vote, enjoy themselves, get sick, and die. You hear, see, and smell class in the streets. When you arrive in the United States, however, the whole category of class disappears; the …
Planning Personal Health Services
A Markovian planning model is presented. It takes into account the dynamics of the health services system and allows health planners flexibility in a continuously changing environment Analysis of the Markovian model leads to its three applications: 1) prediction, i.e., determining future requirements for manpower and resources for any population defined in terms of desired or specified demographic and/or eptdcmiologic characteristics; 2) simulati…
Methodology on Regional Planning of Personal Health Services
The methods used by health planners in Sweden to regionalize personal health services are presented. In the first part, the methodology used to estimate future demand is described, and special mention is made of the consumption unit index, by which health planners estimate the effect of demographic development upon demand for personal health services. The resources required to meet this demand for each regional level are also defined, as well as …
Medical Manpower
This study is a multivariate analysis of physicians' distribution in urban United States which examines the relationship between community characteristics in 299 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas and 27 physicians-population ratios listed by type of medical practice and specialty. The community characteristics arc: population size, population density, per capita buying power, per household buying power, the existence of a more populous metr…
The City and the Region
A Critique of the Present and Proposed Strategies for Redistributing Resources in the Health Sector and a Discussion of Alternatives
This paper is divided into three parts. The first contains a brief description of the past and present distribution of physicians in the United States 1) by levels of care in the four United States census regions, 2) by community size in the nation, 3) by areas, according to the median income of the population in areas within an Eastern state, and 4) by the four main sections of a metropolitan region in that Eastern state, i.e., the business dist…
The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment
In this presentation it is postulated that the present maldistribution of human health resources in Latin America is brought about by the same determinants that cause the underdevelopment of most of that continent. It is indicated that contrary to the theories of development prevalent in the corridors of power and academic circles of developed countries (as well as in the leading circles of developing countries and in the international agencies) …
The Industrialization of Fetishism or the Fetishism of Industrialization
This article critically assesses the ideology of industrialism in light of Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section is a description of the main features of that ideology, the most prevalent and influential one used in sociological literature to explain the state both of Western societies and of our health services. Also in this section, it is shown how these features appear in Illich's analysis o…
The industrialization of fetishism or the fetishism of industrialization
Navarro Response
Navarro Response Vicente Navarro CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.12.1208-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
Social class, political power and the state and their implications in medicine
The Fetishism of Industrialization
The Western system of power is in crisis, Consequently, many interpretations of the nature of Western societies are appearing. And of these, "industrialism" is the most prevalent ideology used to explain the nature and form of these societies. Grounded largely in technological determinism and owing much to Max Weber, it suggests that the industrial nature of technology defines social organizations in their entirety. Among the primary characterist…
Justice, Social Policy, and the Publicʼs Health
This research developed a methodological protocol that allows the triangulation of accelerometer data with time use and food intakes in rural settings of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Household and individual surveys were administrated to 120 individuals in rural Ghana (Upper West Region), India (Telangana State) and Nepal (Province #3). The data collection spanned from June 2017 to November 2018 and participants were invited to wear …
On the nature of cold war soldiering and “Red”-Baiting
Class Struggle, the State and Medicine
Social Security and Medicine in the USSR
Medicine under Capitalism
Work, ideology, and science
Class Struggle, the State and Medicine
Genocide in El Salvador
As explained in the report which follows, Dr. Navarro, Professor of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University, was a member of the Tribunal on El Salvador which met in Mexico City on February 9-11. The full report of the Tribunal, together with supporting documents and legal argumentation, will be published by the secretariat of the Tribunal, but unfortunately this will take time and money. Meanwhile, the situation in El Salvador both domesti…
The Crisis of the International Capitalist Order and its Implications for the Welfare State
This article analyzes the current crisis of the international capitalist order and its consequences for the welfare state policies of developed and underdeveloped capitalist countries. Special emphasis is given to the impact of the crisis on state health care policies in those countries. The first part discusses the response of capital and labor to the crisis, with special focus on capital's political and ideological interventions in the areas of…
The Crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications for the Welfare State
This article analyzes the current crisis of the international capitalist order and its consequences for the welfare state policies of developed and underdeveloped capitalist countries. Special emphasis is given to the impact of the crisis on state health care policies in those countries. The first part discusses capital's and labor's response to the crisis, with special focus on (a) capital's political and ideological interventions in the areas o…
The Limits of the World Systems Theory in Defining Capitalist and Socialist Formations
A critique of the ideological and political positions of the Willy Brandt report and the WHO Alma ata declaration
Double standards in the analysis of Marxist scholarship
The Road Ahead
Signs accumulate that the Reagan administration, only a half year into its second term in office, is headed for a crisis, or perhaps more accurately a series of crises, that could develop into a historic turning point comparable to that which engulfed U.S. society in the 1930s. In these circumstances, we see it as the responsibility of the U.S. left to do two things: first, analyze the underlying causes of the process now coming to a head; and se…
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