The anti-politics of health reform: household power relations and child health in rural Senegal

This article employs ethnographic evidence from rural Senegal to explore two dimensions of health sector reform. First, it makes the case that health reforms intersect with and exacerbate existing social, political, and economic inequalities. Second, the article explores how liberal discourses of health reform, particularly calls for ‘state–citizen partnerships’ and ‘responsiblization’, promote depoliticised understandings of health.