Infiltration of neoliberal ideology in the World Health Organization

Infiltration of neoliberal ideology in the World Health Organization
Effects on global public health policy and practice
Alison KATZ
Introduction
The infiltration of neoliberal ideology in WHO today is profound and this is despite WHO's Constitution and many founding and key documents since then, which are explicitly oriented towards social justice as a solution to health problems and a goal in its own right. The WHO/UNICEF Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma Ata in the former Soviet Union in 1978, represented the flowering of this vision but the movement was swiftly and decisively silenced as early as 1980./.../