Examine the link between structural adjustment programs / policies and health. That is, how does structural adjustment affect health of vulnerable populations such as women?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should state the main tenets of the SAPs that affect health: cuts in public spending; privatization; liberalization, etc, and relate these to health status in Third World countries. For example, cuts in public spending affected sustainability of hospitals, decreasing capacity to care for the sick; it also led to emigration of health care personnel unable to find reliable and long-term employment in the oft-common public institutions. Cuts in public spending increased vulnerability of women,especially to unemployment and consequential risks such as sex trade and prostitution which increasingly became the source of livelihood for women in communities severely affected by SAPs. In general, SAP restricted health care expenditures, severely limiting capacities of nation states to care for their citizens.
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__________________ are the existing structural elements of society
What will be an ideal response
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a. true b. false
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