Codification and Implementation of the Right to Health in Agro-Industrial Companies in an African Context: Analysis of Western “Modernity” Vs. Traditional Values
摘要
The issue of healthcare for workers in many companies, in Africa in general and in Cameroon in particular, presents numerous shortcomings due to the mismatch between the principles that have structured the right to health and traditional African values. Indeed, the disparity in healthcare provision between Westerners and Africans is perceptible in the fact that the right to health has been structured by the values of those who introduced capitalism to Africa and, by extension, the notion of enterprise in the mercantile sense of the term. In African societies, however, the patient belongs to the whole community, including the care of their health, for which the whole group feels responsible. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how the right to health in Africa has been codified with values from elsewhere and is still materializing today in agro-industrial companies in Cameroon.