id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-035133-znbqpwgu Aye, Baba Health Workers on the Frontline Struggle for Health as a Social Common 2020-11-10 .txt text/plain 2948 155 58 'Since the 1970s, neoliberal health and social welfare policies around the world shifted resources from the public to the private sector'. An increasing number of workers delivering health and social care in public health systems became fixedterm contract staff. There is a pressing need to go beyond the limited and feeble demonstrations of government's turn to seeming consideration of health as a social common, and only so during emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Services International, the global trade union federation which brings together thirty million workers across the world, about half of which are in the health and social sector has called for 'rapid changes in policies….that put people and planet over profit'. Privatization and Pandemic: A Cross-Country Analysis of COVID-19 Rates and Health-Care Financing Structures ./cache/cord-035133-znbqpwgu.txt ./txt/cord-035133-znbqpwgu.txt