Assembled (In)access: the borderlands of health care between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Lucia Vitale, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz, Adjunct Professor, School of Technology and International Affairs (STIA), Georgetown University

Comparing across the national border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the project is interested in rural healthcare access in the Global South and how an individual’s constant navigation both across borders and between state and non-state health services defines a new era of health service provision in which health systems are organized not by providers of care, but rather by the patients themselves. The project introduces the term “Assembled Access” to describe how those on the margins, with varying levels of success, assemble health services in a way that comprises bottom-up access to health care.

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