AUTHOR=Light Donald W. TITLE=Addressing Health Care Disparities: A Radical Perspective and Proposal JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sociology VOLUME=5 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00029 DOI=10.3389/fsoc.2020.00029 ISSN=2297-7775 ABSTRACT=

This paper begins by rethinking the sociological theory that social conditions are fundamental causes of health disparities and that controlling disease ironically increases or creates them. While usually true, the radical proposal of non-profit health care and pharmaceutical development could ameliorate health disparities if a nation like Canada or a region like the EU looked to radically different but successful models such as the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative. It uses what could be called entrepreneurial collaboration for public health markets and inverts intellectual property to public health IP to maximize health gain instead of profits.