After polio: Imagining, planning, and delivering a world beyond eradication.

After polio: Imagining, planning, and delivering a world beyond eradication. Health Place. 2018 Sep 18;54:29-36 Authors: Taylor S Abstract As the world comes closer to the eradication of polio, the question of preparing for life after this debilitating disease becomes increasingly pertinent. This paper focuses on on-going institutional attempts to conceptualise, plan, and deliver a world after polio. Drawing upon interviews with global health officials and ethnographic fieldwork with eradication initiatives in Nigeria and Pakistan, I explore how international donors are transitioning towards life after the disease and the curtailment of the substantial resources it has successfully mobilised. Focusing specifically on the wind-down of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, I critically examine key risks emerging from polio transition and highlight a series of spatial and political assumptions about the emergent post-polio contours of global health that have largely been obscured by attempts to render transition planning as little more than a technical exercise. PMID: 30240932 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Health and Place - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Health Place Source Type: research