Access to Health Care and Preferences for Alternative Practices to Biomedicine in International Populations
Keywords:
Medical care, Biomedical practices, Alternative practices, Hospitalization, Specialized consultationsAbstract
In health policy formulation and decision-making within health management, a separation between clinical, epidemiological and public health often prevails. This segmentation, often assumed to be natural from the perspective of hospitals and ministries, is artificial in territories, where health problems do not arise according to disciplinary fragmentation, but rather in the complexity inherent to the needs of people and communities. From this perspective, this study compiles and analyses research on the ecology of medical care carried out between 1928 and 2018, based on the pioneering work “The ecology of medical care” by White, Williams and Greenberg. The analysis is structured around three main axes: 1) the regularities identified in studies of the ecology of medical care, regardless of the temporal and geographical context; 2) health information systems and health surveys; and 3) the institutional hegemony of the hospital within the health field.
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