Global Health Watch 4: An Alternative World Health Report

ISBN-13: 9781783602537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 432 str.

Global Health Watch

Opis

Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized world; a political assessment of the drive towards Universal Health Coverage; broader determinants of health, such as gender-based violence and access to water; stories of struggles, actions and change; and a scrutiny of a range of global institutions and processes. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggle and change to present a compelling case for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health.

Spis treści

Introduction Section A: The Global Political and Economic Architecture A1 The Health Crises of Neoliberal Globalization A2 Fiscal Policies in Europe in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Implications for Health A3 Social Struggle, Progressive Governments, and Health in Latin America A4 After the Arab Spring Section B: Health systems: current issues and debates B1. The Current Discourse on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) B2. The National Health Service (NHS): Prey to Neoliberal Lust for Markets B3. Reform of the Mexican Healthcare System: The Untold Story B4. Brazil: The Rocky Road to a Universal Healthcare System B5. South Africa: Building or Destroying Health Systems? B6. The Right to Health in Tunisia B7. The Revival of Community Health Workers in National Health Systems B8. The Crisis of Maternal and Reproductive Health B9. The Global Health Workforce Crisis B10. The Politics and Landscape of Medical Devices in a Global Market Section C: Beyond Healthcare C1. Social Protection: Reimagining Development C2. Non-Communicable Diseases: Is Big Business Hijacking the Debate? C3. Nutrition and Food Sovereignty C4. Breaking Free from Gender-Based Violence C5. Talking Shit: Is Community Led Total Sanitation Empowering or Divisive? C6. Extractive Industries and Health Section D: Watching D1. WHO Reform: For What Purpose? D2. A New 'Business Model' for NGOs? D3. Private Sector Influence on Public Health Policy D4. The TRIPS Agreement: Two Decades of Failed Promises D5. Cholera Epidemic in Haiti D6. The International Finance Corporation's 'Health in Africa' Initiative D7. The Ethical Cost of Offshoring Clinical Trials Section E: Resistance, Actions and Change E1. Reframing Health in Bolivia Around the Concept of 'Living Well' E2. Social Shange in El Salvador and the Health Sector E3. Venezuela: The Impact on Health of Social Change E4. Colombia: Social Struggles Against the Commodification of Health E5. Peru: Social Movement Against Neoliberal Reforms E6. Struggles for Health in Europe E7. The Struggle Against a Destructive Mining Project in Greece E8. The Right to Food campaign in India E9. Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services in Australia