Examining Inequality, Governance, and Health Justice In Low-and-Middle Income Countries

Global health crises, such as pandemics, climate crisis, economic crises, political crises, mass migrations, and rising inequality, are now centered on developing nations. The aforementioned factors are crucial in determining the condition of the healthcare system, health-seeking behavior, and population well-being.

In addition to biological factors, structural inequality, colonial history, global political economy, and unequal development processes all have an impact on health outcomes in the global south. Due to their scarcity and reliance on external factors, health systems in LMICs are susceptible to global instability.

By situating health sociology inside LMIC reality and examining how global crises are viewed, handled, and resisted in Global South contexts, we hope to rethink the field in this session. In addition to highlighting innovation that arises in these situations, our session will examine how disparities in class, gender, location, and immigration status lead to unequal health outcomes.

This session will connect LMIC experiences from the periphery to the centre of theoretical inquiry, which is consistent with the ISA subject "Sociology in a Turbulent World."

We will be expecting papers on how health outcomes in LMICs are impacted differentially by global crises, political economy and structure of health disparities in Global South setting, governance and climate change, how health systems function in unstable and scarce environments, grassroots, indigenous, and local health ideas.