Anthropological Perspectives on Structural Adjustment and Public Health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Pfeiffer (0000-0002-7985-9437, University of Washington), Rachel R Chapman (0000-0003-2438-1410, University of Washington), Rachel Chapman (0000-0002-2417-4764, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-165 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105101 |
| OpenAlex | W2123513001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 167 |
| References cited | 121 |
Thirty years since its first public use in 1980, the phrase structural adjustment remains obscure for many anthropologists and public health workers. However, structural adjustment programs (SAPs) are the practical tools used by international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to promote the market fundamentalism that constitutes the core of neoliberalism. A robust debate continues on the impact of SAPs on national economies and public health. But the stories that anthropologists tell from the field overwhelmingly speak to a new intensity of immiseration produced by adjustment programs that have undermined public sector services for the poor. This review provides a brief history of structural adjustment, and then presents anthropological analyses of adjustment and public health. The first section reviews studies of health services and the second section examines literature that assesses broader social determinants of health influenced by adjustment
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Public health · Public sector · Sociology · Structural adjustment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine
Reparative Development
Global Health
Development
Prolegomenon to a Structural Human Ecology of Human Well-Being
Interrogating scarcity
Global Health
Neoliberalism
Human Resources for Health
Global Health
There Are No “Addicted” Babies in Appalachia
Inequity in Washington state covid-19-related crowdfunding
Equitable global health research collaborations with a mind of human dignity
Exposure of Syrian refugee agricultural workers to pesticides in Lebanon
Critical perspective on infodemic and infodemic management in previous Ebola outbreaks in Uganda
Corruption in the health sector
Structural adjustment
Immigration/migration and healthy publics
Covid-19 pandemic
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity
Rethinking (LGBT) empowerment
Antibiotic consumption, structured vulnerabilities, and networks of survival in Southern Pakistan
A qualitative descriptive (QD) analysis of community-level experiences of healthcare delivery in rural, post-structural adjustment Ghana
Aid and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala
Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora
Understanding the influence of power dynamics in intersectoral collaboration
Examining the militarised hierarchy of Sierra Leone’s Ebola response and implications for decision making during public health emergencies
Oppression, liberation, wellbeing, and ecology
Globalization and the health of Canadians
The future of human malnutrition
Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance
A critical assessment of the ideological underpinnings of current practice in global health and their historical origins
Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships
Legal but informal abortion
Approaching Actually Existing Neoliberalisms
Where Have All the Young Men Gone
Adjusting Photovoice for Marginalized Indigenous Women
When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture”
“Madness and Despair are a Force”
Barriers to Implementing the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview
Moving medicine inside the neighborhood
NGOs, partnerships, and public-private discontent in Nepal's health care sector
Global health futures
Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world
The Grammar of Leprosy
Anthropological Engagements with Global Health
Postfazione
Caring across borders
People without history in financial capitalism
Counterfeit Antimalarials and the Commodification of Health
Political ecology of household water security among the urban poor in Malawi
In Search of the State
Neglected chronic disease
Participation, decentralisation and déjà vu
Decolonising the global to local movement
Stock-outs! Improvisations and processes of infrastructuring in Uganda’s HIV/Aids and malaria programmes
Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America
Exotic no more’
International clinical volunteering in Tanzania
In the shadowlands of global health
Limits of neoliberalism
The invisible pandemic of antimicrobial resistance and its possible endings
Politics and practices of global health
The ‘indirect costs’ of underfunding foreign partners in global health research
HIV scale-up in Mozambique
Up-scaling expectations among Pakistan's HIV bureaucrats
All they do is pray’
Structural competency and global health education
Perceived Public Participation and Health Delivery in Local Government Districts in Uganda
Access to skilled attendant at birth and the coverage of the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine across 14 West African countries – an equity analysis
The publics of public health in Africa
Neoliberal epidemics’ and public health
An alternative imaginary of community engagement
The impact of vertical public health initiatives on gendered familial care work
When things fall apart
Interrogating the global health and development nexus
A Stalled Revolution? Misoprostol and the Pharmaceuticalization of Reproductive Health in Francophone Africa
Experts’ tools, altruists, and job-seekers
Neoliberalism and Health
Global Health Interventions and the “Common Sense” of Neoliberalism
I Was in Crisis”
Contextualising health seeking behaviours for febrile illness
Neoliberal regime change and the remaking of global health
Globalization and health
Biological embedding vs. embodiment of social experiences
A Women’s Development Army
Navigating the city
The US military's malaria research in Kenya and the geopolitics of global health
Markets and Mutations
The closure of the Australian car manufacturing industry
Re-Thinking a Matrilineal Myth of Healing
A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya
The urban and regional impacts of plant closures
Narrating health and scarcity
Uganda’s system to care for orphans and vulnerable children
Global Health Cadres
Structural adjustment and health
Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare
Producing a worthy illness
Human activities and microbial geographies. An anthropological approach to the risk of infections in West African hospitals
The moral economy of universal public healthcare. On healthcare activism in austerity Spain
Teetering on the Rim
Dying for growth
Pathologies of power
Structural adjustment and African women farmers
Privatizing health services in Africa
The Political Economy of Aids
When Bodies RememberExperiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa
Structural barriers and facilitators in HIV prevention
Adherence as therapeutic citizenship
Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries
Peace without profit
Aids, Sex, and Culture
Power, Production and Social Reproduction
Stories in the Time of Cholera
Aiding Violence
The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing
Pathologies of Power
Going Global in Century XXI
The Impact of Government's Alleviation of Poverty Program on the Urban Poor in Nigeria
Commodity Fetichismo The Holy Spirit, and the turn to Pentecostal and African Independent Churches in Central Mozambique
User fees and drugs
An unruly mélange? Coordinating external resources to the health sector
Engendering' Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
World Bank Policies and the Obligation of Its Members to Respect, Protect and Fulfill the Right to Health
Challenging Orthodoxies
Gender Matters
Global Health
Dalys
Adjustment with a Human Face? Evidence from Jamaica
Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
The gender dimensions of economic adjustment policies
Understanding and Addressing Aids-Related Stigma
Expanding Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Strengthening Health Systems in Poor Countries
New Revolts Against the System
The End of Poverty
Clinics, Communities, and Cost Recovery
World Development Report 1993
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Globalization and Health
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Infections and Inequalities
The role of the World Bank in international health
The Repositioning of Citizenship
The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues
Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status of populations
Endangering safe motherhood in Mozambique
Non-government organizations in the health field
Limitations of quantitative research in the study of structural adjustment
Women and health in Africa
The changing political economy of sex in South Africa
Experiences of stigma and access to Haart in children and adolescents living with HIV/Aids in Brazil
The Daly, context and the determinants of the severity of disease
Injections and self-help
Why health improves
International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique
Fruit of the accords
Professionalism, patient satisfaction and quality of health care
Conceiving the Health Commons
Encountering Development
Structural Adjustment Reconsidered
Health 'Anti-Reform' In El Salvador
Free Markets and Dead Mothers
Condom Social Marketing, Pentecostalism, and Structural Adjustment in Mozambique
African Independent Churches in Mozambique
Global Health Policy, Local Realities
The Holy Spirit in the Household
Globalization, Water, and Health
Beyond Bare Life
Structural Adjustment and the Globalization of Social Policy in Latin America
International Aids Research in Anthropology
Anthropology and Global Health
What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health
Treating Aids
Remaking the Guatemalan Midwife
A Nova Vida
Cash income, intrahousehold cooperative conflict, and child health in central mozambique
Your pocket is what cures you
| Unique citing works | 167 |
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| Citations per year | 11,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 165 |