Health and Health Sovereignty

Seminar 1933

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Gonzalo Basile and Marinilda Rivera (International Health and Health Sovereignty Working Group)
Home: 25 / 07 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 22/07/2019

Teaching team: Gonzalo Basile, Marinilda Rivera and Carolina Tetelboin Henrion

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 15/07/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

South-South International Health (SSIH) is a new interdisciplinary field of knowledge, research, and public policy action grounded in a South-South and decolonial epistemology and geopolitics. It not only addresses issues related to collective health, illness, and the care of populations, as well as systems and policies beyond national borders, but also studies and acts upon the global determinants, dynamics, and agendas imposed by the Global North. Eurocentrism, in its variants of "Pan-Americanism of international health" and postmodern liberal "global health," are two variations of the same logic of dependency and worldview of the contemporary world system. Thus, the need to study international affairs and health from the Global South is not without epistemological and geopolitical disputes. In recent decades, a new direction has developed, known as SSIH, whose central objective is to promote a decolonial shift and the construction of health sovereignty in the region.

This course proposes to examine the field of Integrated Health Services (IHS) in our region, the foundations of the decolonial turn, global actors and health policies, comparative health systems, international epidemiology, emergencies and disasters, geopolitics, and the health cooperation system in the 21st century. It explores different theoretical and methodological frameworks and epistemologically discusses dominant and alternative hegemonic concepts.

Contents:

Biomedicine and the hegemonic biomedical model. Social Sciences and Health Sciences. Social Studies in Health. Critical Theory in Health. Foundations of Latin American Social Medicine. Collective Health Today.
The evolution of health as an international issue: origin, characteristics, and dimensions. - The construction of counter-hegemony from South-South International Health. Dimensions and central theses.
Global agenda for state reform. Health systems. Social security. Social risk management. Care model. Financing and management.
The process of globalization and the tensions and conflicts it brings. Actors in the field of international health: the private, philanthropic, and public sectors.
Theoretical foundations of International Relations, the international cooperation system, the development cooperation regime and health.
Theory of Autonomy and Regional Integration. Main Latin American intellectual traditions and their contribution to the regionalization of public policies, especially in health. Regional integration and health sovereignty: as a process and an instrument, tensions, challenges, and limitations.
The evolution of the field of Epidemiology: perspectives and approaches. Social determinants of health and the social determination of health. Socio-environmental determinants of health and disease from an international perspective. Critical/social epidemiology for the study of the International Determinants of Health. International epidemiology as a field of action for public policy and as a field of knowledge: South-South / North-South / Global directionality? Conceptual frameworks and models of analysis.
From "natural" catastrophes and disasters to socio-environmental emergencies and social studies. Intervention models and strategy design in comprehensive disaster risk management and public health. Humanitarian action, geopolitics, and the militarization of disaster management.
Dimensions of the field of public policy analysis: agendas, formulation, evaluation, actors and interests, negotiation, explicit and implicit content, and knowledge production.
Theoretical-methodological approaches in the analysis of health policies: Marxism; neo-institutionalism; the idea of “cycle” in the analysis of health policies; political analysis proposed by Ball; institutionalism; Foucault's archaeology and genealogy; evaluation of health policies and programs.

General Bibliography of the Seminar

Granda, Edmundo. "What do we call collective health, today." Cuban Journal of Public Health 30.2 (2004): 0-0.
Menendez, Eduardo L. "The medical model and the health of workers." Collective Health 1.1 (2005): 9-32.
Paim, Jairnilson Silva, and Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho. "The crisis of public health and the collective health movement in Latin America." (1999).
Ugalde, Antonio and Homedes, Núria. “Latin America: capital accumulation, health, and the role of international institutions”. Salud Colectiva (2007): 33-48.
Precious, Jaime. "Latin America in the world-system: questions and center-periphery alliances." Caderno CRH 21.53 (2008).
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Remaking international health: Refreshing perspectives from Latin America", Pan American Journal of Public Health 30, no. 2(2011): 101-105.
Quijano, Aníbal. "Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism and Latin America." The coloniality of knowledge: Eurocentrism and social sciences. Latin American Perspectives (2000): 201-246.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. "Decolonization and the decolonial turn." Tabula rasa 9 (2008).
Basile, Gonzalo. "South-South International Health: Towards a Decolonial and Epistemological Turn". Dossier 2 of South-South International Health. CLACSO International Health Working Group Editions (2018).
De Sousa Santos, Boaventura. Decolonizing Knowledge, Reinventing Power. Trilce Editions, 2010.
Laurell, Asa Cristina. Impact of the popular insurance on the Mexican health system. CLACSO, 2013.
TETELBOIN Henrion, Carolina. 1998, “State, social policies and citizenship”. Sociology and Politics.
Almeida, Celia. "Health systems reform and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean: some lessons from the 80s and 90s." Cad. Saúde Pública 18.4 (2002): 905-925.
Basile, Gonzalo. "Creative tensions of Post-neoliberalism: advances in Social Security, setbacks in Collective Health?." X National Conference on Interdisciplinary Debate in Health and Population (2013).
Berlinguer, Giovanni. (1999). Globalization and global health. EstudosAvançados, 13(35), 21-38.
Ceceña, Ana Esther, and Sader, Emir. Hegemonies and emancipations in the 21st century. Buenos Aires: Clacso, 2004.
Granda E. Health: Globalization of life and solidarity. Juan César García Conference. In: Health and Life, volume 1, Quito, 2009.
ALMEIDA, C. (2013). Health, foreign policy and southern cooperation in health: elements for reflection on the case of Brazil. In: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. A health in Brazil in 2030 – strategic prospection of the Brazilian health system: development, State and health policies. Rio de Janeiro: FIOCRUZ/IPEA/Ministério da Saúde/Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos da Presidencia da República. Selected pages: 233-282.
Birn Anne-Emanuelle, MuntanerCarles, Afzal Zabia. South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice. Public Health Cad. [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2018 Feb 23] ; 33(Suppl 2).
De la Flor Gómez, José Luis. "The liberal political complex in the international regime of cooperation in health." (2005).
Basile, Gonzalo. "The ethical coloniality of the International Cooperation System: the case of Haiti." Dossier 1 of South-South International Health Editions of the CLACSO International Health Working Group. August (2018).
Jaguaribe, Helio. "The imperial condition." The Economic Quarter 45.177 (1 (1978): 21-50.
Katz, C. (2016). Criticisms and convergences with Dependency Theory. Social Sciences Journal, 1(38), 165-179.
Kaufman, Robert. "Morgenthau's Unrealistic Realism." Yale J. Int'l Aff. 1 (2005): 24.
Sanahuja, José Antonio. “From open regionalism to post-liberal regionalism. Crisis and change in regional integration in Latin America”. Yearbook of Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean 7. Buenos Aires: CRIES, 2008-2009.
Tokatlian, Juan Carlos. “South American Union: Inexorable or Contingent?”. Economic Development 41 (161). April-June 2001.
Breilh J. The social determinants of health as a tool for transformation towards a new public health (collective health). Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública. 2013; 31(Suppl. 1).
Franco-Giraldo A. Global determination and health: the broad framework of the determinants of health. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública 2013; 31 (suppl 1).
Velásquez, Germán. "Will the WHO survive the Ebola epidemic?". Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2015.
Hegoa – University of the Basque Country - Dictionary of Humanitarian Action and Development Cooperation.
Narvéz, Lizardo, Allan Lavell, and Gustavo Pérez Ortega. "Disaster Risk Management: A Process-Based Approach." Disaster Risk Management: A Process-Based Approach. Andean Community. General Secretariat; Project to Support Disaster Prevention in the Andean Community (PREDECAN), 2009.
Lavell, Allan Michael. State, society and disaster management in Latin America: in search of the lost paradigm. Practical Solutions, 1996.
Huertas, BF "Planning to govern: The PES method, Interview with Carlos Matus." Buenos Aires: National University of La Matanza (2006). (selected pages).
CLACSO - .: “Globalization and the Washington Consensus: its influences on democracy and development in the South”. Buenos Aires, CLACSO, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (2008). (selected pages).
De Sousa Santos, Boaventura. Reinventing democracy: Reinventing the State. Editorial AbyaYala, 2004. (selected pages).

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A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.