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Health for All? Disability, Diversity and Global Health

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This article deals with the question of access to health (care) for vulnerable groups of people and discusses how diversity aspects are reflected to the extent that health care is available to all people without barriers and/or discrimination. To this end, the text draws on governance issues by using the differentiation between a) “globalization and health governance”, b) “global governance and health” as well as c) “governance for global health”, suggested by Lee & Kamradt-Scott (2014: 5). The focus of the text is on the two diversity dimensions disability and migration.

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Bertmann-Merz, I. (2020). Health for All? Disability, Diversity and Global Health. In: Crepaz, K., Becker, U., Wacker, E. (eds) Health in Diversity – Diversity in Health. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29177-8_9

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