Improving Accountability for Equitable Health and Well-being in Urban Informal Spaces: Moving from Dominant to Transformative Approaches

Tolhurst, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-6641 (2024) 'Improving Accountability for Equitable Health and Well-being in Urban Informal Spaces: Moving from Dominant to Transformative Approaches'. Progress in Development Studies, Vol 24, Issue 4, pp. 301-320.

Preview

Text 2024-improving-accountability-for-equitable-health-and-well-being_ARISE.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download (522kB) | Preview

Abstract

This article critically reviews the literature on urban informality, inequity, health, well-being and accountability to identify key conceptual, methodological and empirical gaps in academic and policy discourses. We argue that critical attention to power dynamics is often a key missing element in these discourses and make the case for explicit attention to the operation of power throughout conceptualization, design and conduct of research in this space. We argue that: (a) urban informality reflects the exercise of power to confer and withhold advantage; (b) the dominant biomedical model of health poorly links embodied experiences and structural contexts; (c) existing models of accountability are inadequate in unequal, pluralistic governance and provision environments. We trace four conceptual and empirical directions for transformative approaches to power relations in urban health equity research.

Item Type:	Article
Corporate Authors:	ARISE Consortium
Uncontrolled Keywords:	NOT_LSTM
Subjects:	W General Medicine. Health Professions > Health Services. Patients and Patient Advocacy > W 84.4 Quality of Health Care W General Medicine. Health Professions > Health Services. Patients and Patient Advocacy > W 84 Health services. Delivery of health care WA Public Health > WA 30 Socioeconomic factors in public health (General) WA Public Health > Health Administration and Organization > WA 525 General works
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231225530
Depositing User:	Lynn Roberts-Maloney
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2024 10:59
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 10:00
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/25322

Statistics

View details

Actions (login required)

Edit Item