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Global Health Watch 2005-06: An Alternative World Health Report

Global Health Watch 2005-06: An Alternative World Health Report

by Global Health Watch (Author)

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Synopsis

In 2003 the People's Health Movement, the Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Medact came together to plan a review of the performance of the very institutions that normally write global reports. To turn the tables by reporting and assessing the actions of international health agencies such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank. It was time to produce an alternative world health report that would highlight the root causes of poor health and reveal the gap between humanitarian rhetoric and reality. This book presents a challenge to the major global bodies that influence health. The real scandal, it argues, is that the world lacks neither funds nor expertise to solve most of these problems. It is the predominance of conservative thinking and neoliberal economics that has led these institutions, established to promote social justice, into imposing policies and practices that, despite some important initiatives, are actually blocking any hope of meeting the UN's health-related Millennium Development Goals.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 1842775693
ISBN 13: 9781842775691

Media Reviews
'A very good reference for people working in areas affecting the health of populations. It deals with some of the most important issues in today's world. I highly recommend it.' Vicente Navarro, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Services 'Combines academic analysis with a call to mobilize the health professional community to press for improvements in global health and justice. I hope it will be read by many health professionals in rich and poor countries alike.' Andy Haines, dean of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 'It is very good to see issues of trade and globalization reflected prominently in a report aimed at health professionals. Global Health Watch provides them with a resource to engage in debates about these non-clinical, structural determinants of poor health.' Martin Khor, director of the Third World Network 'Governments and intergovernmental organizations have structured our social world so that half of humankind still lives in severe poverty. These global poor suffer vast health deficits. This greatest moral outrage of our time will continue until citizens reflect on its causes and firmly place the human rights of the global poor on the political agenda. Global Health Watch is a courageous and promising effort in this direction.' Thomas Pogge, professorial research fellow with the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Australian National University 'Global Health Watch offers a critique of global trends that threaten health including the practices of multinational corporations, the false promise of the genetics revolution, the scandal of hunger in a world of plenty and the failure of UN institutions such as WHO to live up to their original mission to promote the health of poor people. It also demonstrates, with practical suggestions, that another world is possible. It will become the essential guidebook for health activists who want to campaign for a kinder, more equitable, healthier and people-centred world.' Fran Baum, member of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health 'A much-needed resource, unique, and reflecting the work of well qualified authors from all continents. I applaud the effort - and the result.' Philip R. Lee, MD, University of California, San Francisco
Author Bio
Global Health Watch 2005 is a collaboration of leading popular movements and nongovernmental organizations comprising civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics.