Rights Talk

E24: The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective: the WHO, North-South Systems, and Transnational Interdependencies with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter

October 03, 2021 CCNY Downtown
Rights Talk
E24: The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective: the WHO, North-South Systems, and Transnational Interdependencies with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
Show Notes

This episode is devoted to examining the right to health and health care systems in comparative perspective with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Political Scientist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Bremen, Senior Consultant at the World Health Organization, and editor of the Global Dynamics in Social Policy book series published by Palgrave Macmillan.  It engages the challenges and benefits of comparing Global North and Global South systems as well as the impacts of neoliberalism, aging populations, and migration, including of health care workers, on such systems. It considers the US health care system, its weaknesses, and impediments to reform as well as key global challenges regarding effective emergency response resulting from pandemics and climate change impacts.