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Neoliberalism, Philanthrocapitalism & Global Health

Development blocks diseases
• If people are happy diseases will go away
• ‘Imperialism medicine”
• If people live in better conditions the diseases will go away due to the improvement of
their surroundings
• Ie: coffee cultivation in kenya & DDT
• Dependency theory-ill health in the global south is caused by structural inequality
• Social, economical and cultural factors and health are closely tied
• Improving social conditions and reducing inequality will improve health

WHAT IS GLOBAL HEALTH:

• global health: ‘implies a shared global susceptibility to experience of, and responsibility
for health…. In its more collectible guide, global health refers to health and disease
patterns in terms of the interaction of global, national and local forces, processes and
conditional in political, economic, social and epidemiological domains”
• How global warming and climate change effects global health
• Hits us all
• Knowing power structures and learn to disrupt it and how to change it

GLOBAL HEALTH ACTORS (PLAYERS)

• World health organizations
• World bank
• IMF
• National based development Assistant programs
• International and national non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations
• Policy think tanks

WHO:
• COnvening of international effort and resources, global diseases surveillance, provide
technical assistance to all member countries, disease eradication (smallpox, polio), tackle
huge problem such as HIV/AID, TB, malaria
• 20% of funding is from members
• 80% of funds comes from outside people (government, etc)

WHATS IS PLIANTRROPCAPATLISM?
• Capitalism: accumulation of profits via exploitation of workers and natural resources
• Philanthropy- make lives better for other people
• Thus trying to do good thru harm
• Philanthrocapitalism- a way of doing philanthropy, which mirrors the way that business
is done in the for-profits world

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• Often used the same exploitative business approaches in the name of improving human
well being or “saving the world”

WHAT IS NEOLIBERALISM:
• Emphasizes the role of free market (competition)
• Minimize state intervention (cuts to public spending, privatization of public serves)
• Tax reform (to incentive investment)
• Fewer regulations
• Let innovators drive innovations
• Trade liberalization (exports and imports)
• Taxes (government so they can improve society)
• Deregulation of industries (allow companies to become more powerful)

STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH

• Debt crisis and conditions loans
• Implemented by world bank and IMF
• Liberalization and deregulation of markets
• Prioritizing the product of primary goods for export
• Spend less of infrastructure and social services
• Recipes for disasters

RAPID RISE OF THE BMGF

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