The Health Policy Advisory Center, Community Organizing, and the Big Business of Health, 1967--1975.

• Autores: Merlin Chowkwanyun
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 101, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 238-249
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Soon after its founding in the politically tumultuous late 1960s, the Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC) and its Health/ PAC Bulletin became the strategic hub of an intense urban social movement around health care equality in New York City. I discuss its early formation, its intellectual influences, and the analytical framework that it devised to interpret power relations in municipal health care. I also describe Health/PAC's interpretation of health activism, focusing in particular on a protracted struggle regarding Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over the years, the organization's stance toward community-oriented health politics evolved considerably, from enthusiastically promoting its potential to later confronting its limits. I conclude with a discussion of Health/PAC's major theoretical contributions, often taken for granted today, and its book American Health Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]