Medical Populism and the Politics of Dengue Epidemics in the Global South

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: dengue; medical populism; politics of health; health crisis; epidemics; Global South; Health Law and Policy; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/72; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2021.1965181
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

With millions of cases and thousands of deaths every year in Asia and Latin America, dengue fever continues to be of global public health significance. This article uses the concept of ‘medical populism’ to analyse the political construction of the 2019 dengue epidemics in Bangladesh, the Philippine...