TY - JOUR AU - Graziano, Valeria AU - Fragnito, Maddalena PY - 2021/05/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The medicalisation of politics or the politicisation of pedicine: the case of italian struggles to design public healthcare institutions JF - DAT Journal JA - DATJournal VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Dossiê Saúde(s) DO - 10.29147/dat.v6i2.390 UR - https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/390 SP - 75-94 AB - <p>In the present article, we reflect on some key aspects for the design of pub­lic health systems by retracing the history of the Italian National Health Service, or Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN), from its inception to the present days, analysing how a series of subsequent reforms and counter-reforms impacted its functions and services. Our reflection is based on a collective interview with Fulvio Aurora, Paolo Fierro and Edoardo Turri, three members of Medicina Democratica, which has been and continues to be one of the key organizations in the struggles for keeping health a public value in Italy. While our standpoint on the issue of health is geographically situated, we believe that an analysis of the Italian healthcare sector, with its success­es and its failures, can offer important points of departures for identifying some key characteristics to shape contemporary approaches to healthcare design that can be translocal and cosmopolitan in their application.</p> ER -