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Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Edwin Ambani Ameso
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Border tuberculosis: Migrant tuberculosis screenings and the enactment of disease in the Indonesia–Malaysia migration corridor

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Documented migrant workers from Indonesia recruited for work in Malaysia need to undergo tuberculosis screenings before being issued work permits and visas. Centered on the production, circulation, and interpretation of chest X‐ray images, these screenings are shaped in concrete, practical ways by the demands of border control regulations ...
Jonathan Kraemer
wiley   +1 more source

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