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Title Privatization and the new medical pluralism : shifting healthcare landscapes in Maya Guatemala / Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 193 pages)
Contents Strategic alliances: the shifting motivations for NGO collaboration with government programs / Jonathan Maupin -- "Mi familia probreza": conditional cash transfers and maternal-child health in rural Guatemala / Shom Dasgupta-Tsinikas and Paul Wise -- Forced motherhood in Guatemala: an analysis of the Thousand Days Initiative / Alejandra Colom -- "This disease is for those who can afford it": diabetes in Indigenous Maya communities / David Flood and Peter Rohloff -- Capitalizing on care: marketplace quasi-pharmaceuticals in the Guatemalan health-seeking landscape / Rachel Hall-Clifford -- Engaging mental healthcare in a disengaged system / Carla Pezzia -- Hysterectomies and healer shopping: cervical cancer and therapeutic anarchy in Guatemala / Anita Chary -- Leveraging resources in contemporary Maya midwifery / Nora King, Anita Chary, and Peter Rohloff -- Conclusion: a bad conscience of justice! / Peter Benson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-178) and index
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Subject Medical care, Cost of -- Guatemala
Privatization.
Integrative medicine.
Medical care, Cost of.
Health Services -- economics
Health Care Costs
Privatization
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Integrative medicine.
Medical care, Cost of.
Privatization.
Medizinische Versorgung
Privatisierung
SUBJECT Guatemala
Subject Guatemala.
Guatemala
Form Electronic book
Author Chary, Anita
Rohloff, Peter
LC no. 2021677701
ISBN 9781498505383
1498505384
9781498505383