@misc{10481/75563,
year = {2014},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/75563},
abstract = {This article analyses the organisation of cancer control in Argentina, with a special
focus on the initiatives, institutions, and models that targeted female or gynaecological cancers.
It identifies and examines the main factors in the process of elaborating a national policy to
control the disease drawing on a series of actors and instruments such as the state, medical
professionals, institutions and services, and the use of technology (notably diagnostic tools)
for the detection of the disease. It traces the developments in the organisation highlighting
its transformations from a centralising to a decentralised model of service provision. Using the
concept of «path-dependence» the article examines the continuities and changes observed
in the organisation of female cancer critically signalling the particular time at which a path
was taken where «fragmentation» became consolidated within the health system. It also
argues that it was within the field of cancer diagnosis that Argentinian doctors first sought
to create the foundational structures of cancer organisation. The article contends that the
path-dependence analytical approach helps us acknowledge the importance of historical
analysis in the identification of factors that led to the lack of service coordination, including
the persistent strain between national/provincial states that hampered the development of
comprehensive programmes, aspects that have continued to mark efforts in the elaboration
of cancer policies to the present day.},
organization = {Research Fellowship awarded by the
Wellcome Trust (WT082964), United Kingdom},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Cancer organisation},
keywords = {Path-dependence},
keywords = {Gynaecological cancers},
keywords = {Diagnosis},
keywords = {Cancer control policies},
keywords = {Organización del cáncer},
keywords = {"Dependencia del camino"},
keywords = {Cáncer ginecológico},
keywords = {Diagnóstico},
keywords = {Políticas de control del cáncer},
title = {Controlling female cancer in Argentina. Divergent initiatives and the road to fragmentation},
author = {Eraso, Yolanda},
}