December 06: Socialist Medicine ERC Presentation at the Center of African Studies (UEM) in Maputo
Dr Alila Brossard Antonielli, currently doing fieldwork in Maputo, Mozambique, will present her research on the construction of the Health Systems of Angola and Mozambique at the Centro de Estudos Africanos Ad Hoc Seminar. The presentation in Portuguese will take place online and on site at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.
Prof. Sónia Nhantumbo Divage (Centro de Estudos Africanos, UEM) will be the discussant.
"The creation of Angola and Mozambique socialist health systems (1975-1987)"
https://zoom.us/j/99823140158?pwd=T0RjbEpGZHo0NjE5UExPd1lYREhUdz09
Meeting ID: 998 2314 0158
Passcode: 3j9kVA
Abstract:
After independence in 1975, Angola and Mozambique nationalized their health services and adopted a universal and free health care system, with emphasis on Primary Health Care models. I offer to investigate how medical and public health ideas, knowledge and organization models circulated to and from Angola and Mozambique in the years immediately following their independence. What models and technologies were discussed, adopted and adapted, what were the conditions and challenges to implement them? What kind of actors and experts participated in these exchanges and transfers? Both case studies and the circulations around them would contribute to the growing scholarship on international and global health beyond the WHO and the World Bank. The analysis of how Angolan and Mozambique health systems were shaped would allow for more nuances of the 1970s as a decade of confrontation of models between Western, Communist and Non-Aligned countries and aftermath of these. Angola and Mozambique are compelling cases as alternative histories of global health as we can characterize their politics and knowledge to create their health systems as nodes in diverse networks of socialist governments and progressive solidarity movements.
December 06: Socialist Medicine ERC Presentation at the Center of African Studies (UEM) in Maputo
Dr Alila Brossard Antonielli, currently doing fieldwork in Maputo, Mozambique, will present her research on the construction of the Health Systems of Angola and Mozambique at the Centro de Estudos Africanos Ad Hoc Seminar. The presentation in Portuguese will take place online and on site at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.
Prof. Sónia Nhantumbo Divage (Centro de Estudos Africanos, UEM) will be the discussant.
"The creation of Angola and Mozambique socialist health systems (1975-1987)"
https://zoom.us/j/99823140158?pwd=T0RjbEpGZHo0NjE5UExPd1lYREhUdz09
Meeting ID: 998 2314 0158
Passcode: 3j9kVA
Abstract:
After independence in 1975, Angola and Mozambique nationalized their health services and adopted a universal and free health care system, with emphasis on Primary Health Care models. I offer to investigate how medical and public health ideas, knowledge and organization models circulated to and from Angola and Mozambique in the years immediately following their independence. What models and technologies were discussed, adopted and adapted, what were the conditions and challenges to implement them? What kind of actors and experts participated in these exchanges and transfers? Both case studies and the circulations around them would contribute to the growing scholarship on international and global health beyond the WHO and the World Bank. The analysis of how Angolan and Mozambique health systems were shaped would allow for more nuances of the 1970s as a decade of confrontation of models between Western, Communist and Non-Aligned countries and aftermath of these. Angola and Mozambique are compelling cases as alternative histories of global health as we can characterize their politics and knowledge to create their health systems as nodes in diverse networks of socialist governments and progressive solidarity movements.
