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The Public Good, Bad Policies, and Tough Times: When Profit and Public Interests Collide

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Privatization of public goods maximizes corporate profits while providing minimal benefits or protections to public health. When calamities such as infectious disease pandemics, natural disasters, and severe weather strike, privatized systems often fail to respond adequately. This issue brief describes how privatization of public goods undermines public health, damages public trust, and erodes democracy and provides suggestions for how we can rethink policies to value people over profits instead of valuing profits over people.

Source: Syracuse University Libraries (Syracuse University)

Authors: Austin Brown, Shannon M. Monnat

Language: English

Topic: Public Health Policies and Education

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3133731860

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