Coproduction of Health Care for Indigenous Women: Evaluating a Medical Intervention in the Great Chaco Region* Presenter and corresponding author: Tulia G. Falleti + Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics University of Pennsylvania
[email protected] Co-authors: Santiago L. Cunial +, Selene Bonczok Sotelo +, and Favio Crudo ++ Version: August 26, 2020 Paper prepared for presentation at the 2020 American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 12. Please do not cite this paper without prior email authorization from corresponding author. Comments are very welcome * Falleti, Cunial, and Sotelo are grateful to Dr. Alejandro Krolewiecki for introducing them to the ADESAR/Mundo Sano team and to the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) and the Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) Program of the University of Pennsylvania for funding. The paper benefited from participants’ comments at the 4th Mundo Sano research meeting; the Lansing B. Lee, Jr. Seminar in Global Politics at the University of Virginia; the Department of Political Science Seminar at University of Texas-Austin; and the David Rockefeller Center at Harvard University, where it was presented. + University of Pennsylvania ++ ADESAR 1 Abstract: Coproduction between state and civil society in the delivery of public goods and services raises a host of questions that go from capture of the state, to cooptation of civil society, and efficiencies or accountability in the delivery of public services. Moreover, when this cooperation focuses on vulnerable and historically marginalized indigenous populations, ethical concerns arise about intercultural sensitive care.