Global Health Watch 3: An Alternative World Health Report

ISBN-13: 9781780320335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str.

Global Health Watch

Opis

In an increasingly globalized world with new cross-border threats to public health and widening disparities between populations, civil society actors are challenging the existing structures of global health policies. Like its critically acclaimed predecessors, this third volume of "Global Health Watch" covers a comprehensive range of topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. Unlike most documentations of global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors. "Global Health Watch" books are the definitive independent sources of data on global health, and this third volume offers unique and essential information for anyone working in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction Section I: The Global Political and Economic Architecture A.1 Economic Crisis and Systemic Failure: Why we need to rethink the global economy Section II: Health Systems - Current Issues and Debates B.1. Primary Health Care: A Review and Critical Appraisal of its Revitalization B.2 Financing Health Care: Aiming for long-term solutions B.3 Health Financing Models that Make Health systems work: Case Studies from Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Thailand B4 Dysfunctional Health Systems: Case Studies from China, India, US B5 Achieving a shared goal: Free Universal Health Care in Ghana B6 Maternal Mortality: Need for a broad framework of intervention B7 Research for Health B8 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: In Search of A Global Health Ethos B9 Mental Health and Equality Section III: Beyond Health Care C1 The Global Food Crisis C2 Conflict, Information and Right to Health C3 Trade and Health C4 The Future is Now: Genetic Promises and Speculative Finance C5 Climate Crisis C6 Challenging the Population Climate Connection Section IV: Watching D1 WHO: Captive to Conflicting Interests D2 UNICEF and the Medicalisation of Malnutrition in Children D3 Conflict of Interest Within Philanthrocapitalism D4 The Pharmaceutical Industry and Pharmaceutical Endeavour D5 Health and Global Security: Reasons for Concern D6. International Health Partnerships+: Glass Half Full or Half Empty D7. New Reproductive Technologies Section V: Resistance, Actions, and Change E1 The Movement for Change E2. The Right to Health: From Concept to Action E3. Cuba's International Co-operation in Health