2016
DOI: 10.1097/01.xeb.0000511611.39756.62
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Political Efficacy and Political Participation among Nurses in Tertiary Hospitals, the Republic of Kenya

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“…They portray India as a medical destination offering the best global medicine at prices below those of Kenyan private hospitals, with Indian doctors having access to state‐of‐the‐art technologies (Mahugu, 2018). Medical travel facilitators—companies that act as brokers between hospitals, insurance companies, and patients—are crucial nodes in this health care terrain (Ahoya, 2018; Hartmann, 2018). In 2016, one of these companies, Agile Global Health (AGH), received a contract from Kenya's national health insurer to broker treatment in India for Kenyan customers (Agile Global Health, 2017).…”
Section: Health Insurance and Indian Corporate Hospitalsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They portray India as a medical destination offering the best global medicine at prices below those of Kenyan private hospitals, with Indian doctors having access to state‐of‐the‐art technologies (Mahugu, 2018). Medical travel facilitators—companies that act as brokers between hospitals, insurance companies, and patients—are crucial nodes in this health care terrain (Ahoya, 2018; Hartmann, 2018). In 2016, one of these companies, Agile Global Health (AGH), received a contract from Kenya's national health insurer to broker treatment in India for Kenyan customers (Agile Global Health, 2017).…”
Section: Health Insurance and Indian Corporate Hospitalsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The struggles of Roselida, Jacinta, and their families illuminate how realigned relations among capital, states, markets, patients, and medicine are shaping patterns of access to medical treatment (Ong & Collier, 2005; Rose, 2007; Sunder Rajan, 2012), as states disinvest from public services while promoting the marketization of health on a model of consumer choice (Wilson, 2011). Kenya, with its intensive “fintech” capitalism (Donovan & Park, 2019, 2022; Kusimba, 2021; Park, 2020; Schmidt, 2019), decades of public health care austerity (Kabia at al., 2019; Pfeiffer & Chapman, 2010; Prince & Marsland, 2013), expanding private health care markets (Ahoya, 2018), and growing middle class, is emerging as an important site for these forms of biocapital. As Kenya becomes a location for global investment in corporate medicine, the vulnerability of an exploitable middle class to biocapitalist ventures is recalibrating its value.…”
Section: New Terrains For Biocapital?mentioning
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