The Politics of Health Care Reforms in Kenya and their Failure

The current literature on the politics of social policy has two major shortcomings: health care reforms are undertheoretized and research on Anglophone Africa tends to neglect health reforms. To tackle this, a case study on Kenya presents (failed) re-forms such as universal or categorical free healt...

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spelling ftdatacite:10.18753/2297-8224-64 2023-05-15T13:16:17+02:00 The Politics of Health Care Reforms in Kenya and their Failure Unav 2016 PDF https://dx.doi.org/10.18753/2297-8224-64 http://www.sozialpolitik.ch/article/content/480/show/64/ en eng sozialpolitik.ch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC-BY-SA health; politics of social policy; Kenya Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.18753/2297-8224-64 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The current literature on the politics of social policy has two major shortcomings: health care reforms are undertheoretized and research on Anglophone Africa tends to neglect health reforms. To tackle this, a case study on Kenya presents (failed) re-forms such as universal or categorical free health care or the introduction of health insurance and the expansion of its coverage. The case study clearly shows that there is no single theoretical explanation of social policy reforms or their failure. Rather, there are different combination of factors at work in Kenya. Die wissenschaftliche Literatur zu den politischen Prozessen hinter sozialpolitischen Reformen hat zwei gewichtige Schwächen: Gesundheitspolitische Reformen sind untertheoretisiert und die Forschung zum englischsprachigen Ostafrika vernachlässigt Gesundheitsreformen. Diese Lücken werden mit einer Fallstudie zu den politischen Prozessen hinter (gescheiterten) gesundheitspolitischen Reformen in Kenya angegangen. Analysiert werden Reformen im Bereich der universell oder kategorisch kostenlosen Gesundheitsversorgung sowie der Krankenversicherung. Die Fallstudie zeigt deutlich, dass es keine theoretische Erklärung gibt, die alle alle gesundheitspolitischen Reformen sowie deren Scheitern erklären kann. Entscheidend sind vielmehr verschiedene Kombinationen von Faktoren. Text Alle alle DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) sozialpolitik ch 2016 1
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