Cross-posted from: PHM News
*Global Health Watch 4An Alternative World Health Report*Launch November 13, 2014
The Global Health Watch is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggles and change to present a compelling case for the imperative to work for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health. It is designed to question present policies on health and to propose alternatives.
GHW4 is a collaborative effort by activists and academics from across the world, and has been coordinated the People’s Health Movement, Asociacion Latinoamericana de Medicina Social, Health Action International, Third World Network and Medact.
This edition of the GHW, published by ZED Books, will be available in November 2014.
We call upon all progressive health and development movements and NGOs to disseminate the evidence and analysis in GHW4.
We invite you to consider launching the GHW4 in your region, starting from December 2014. For this purpose ‘launch kits’ will be avail-able by early November 2014.
Find out more by visiting:
www.ghwatch.org, or e-mail
sbarria@phmovement.org, or
asengupta@phmovement.org
*Contents:*
Section A:
The global political and economic architecture Health crises of neoliberal globalization - Fiscal policies in Europe - Social struggles in LatinAmerica - After the Arab Spring
Section B
Health systems: current issues and debates
Universal health coverage – case studies from UK, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Tunisia –
Revival of community health workers -
Crisis of maternal and reproductive health -
Global health workforce crisis -
Medical devices in a global market.
Section C
Beyond healthcare
Social protection -
Non-communicable diseases -
Nutrition and food sovereignty -
Gender-based violence -
Community led total sanitation –
Extractive industries
Section D
Watching
WHO reform –
NGOs in service delivery -
Private sector influence on public health policy -
TRIPS agreement -
Cholera epidemic in Haiti -
IFC’s ‘Health in Africa’ initiative –
Offshoring clinical trials.
Section E
Resistance, actions and change
Social change and health in Bolivia, El Salvador and Venezuela –
Colombia and Peru: resistance to neoliberal reforms -
Struggles for health in Europe -
Destructive mining in Greece -
Right to food campaign in India -
Australia: Aboriginal community-controlled health services.
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Susana Barria
mailto:sbarria@phmovement.org