Public Health Reform and Transition in Burma/Myanmar

Autor:	Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Saw Nay Htoo
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Economic growth Right to health Public health media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group Health equity Neglect Local community Political science Internally displaced person medicine Militarization media_common
Zdroj:	Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume I ISBN: 9789811596155 Demystifying Myanmar’s Transition and Political Crisis ISBN: 9789811666742
DOI:	10.1007/978-981-15-9616-2_10
Popis:	In eastern Burma/Myanmar, basic health statistics regarding internally displaced populations (IDPs) are poor because infant, child, and maternal mortality rates are higher than the official national figures. This official neglect has resulted in marginalization, abuse by agents of the central state, and widening health disparities between ethnic minority communities and predominately Burman and urban areas. Consequently, local community organizations have mobilized themselves to respond to these challenges in order to realise people’s right to health by providing services to long-neglected people who have been marginalized and abused by successive military administrations as well as by “securitisation” through the escalation of “militarisation”. The Ethnic Community Based Health Organisations (ECBHOs) in eastern Burma have proposed the so-called “Rocketship Model”, a model for health reform and convergence, which highlights the reality that health reform and convergence can progress only in conjunction with efforts towards achieving sustainable peace, and a federal union in Burma.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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