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Global Health Watch 2005– 2006 An alternative World Health Report
About this book
Today's global health crisis reflects widening inequalities within and
between countries. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, advances
in science and technology are securing better health and longer lives for a
small fraction of the world's population. Meanwhile children die of
diarrhoeafor want of clean water, people with AIDS die for want of
affordable medicines, and poor people in all regions are increasingly cut
off from the political, social and economic tools they can use to create
their own health and well-being.
The real scandal is that the world lacks neither funds nor expertise to
solve most of these problems. Yet the predominance of conservative
thinking and neoliberaleconomics has led the institutions that were
established to promote social justice into imposing policies and practices
that achieve just the opposite. They police an unjust global trade regime
with a doctrinaire insistence on privatization of public services, and
preside over the failure to curb disease by tackling the poverty that
enables it to flourish.
Global Health Watch 2005-2006 is a collaboration of leading popular
movements and non-governmental organizations comprising civil society
activists, community groups, health workers and academics. It has compiled
this-alternative world health report - a hard-hitting, evidence-based
analysis of the political economy of health and health care - as a
challenge to the major global bodies that influence health. Itsmonitoring
of institutions including the World Bank, the World Health Organization
and UNICEF reveals that while some important initiatives are being taken,
much more needs to be done to have any hope of meeting the UN's
health-related Millennium Development Goals.
The report also offers a comprehensive survey of current knowledge and
thinking in the key areas that influence health, focusing throughout on the
health and welfare of poor and vulnerable groups in all countries. These
issues range from climate change, water and nutrition to national health
services and the brain drain of health professionals from South to North.
Global Health Watch 2005-2006 is above all a call for action, written in a
clear, accessible style to appeal to grass-roots health workers and
activists worldwide, as well as to international policy-makers and national
decision-makers. Its resource sections advocate actions everyone can
take,while its recommendations show how better global health governance and
practice could work for Health for All rather than health for the
privileged few.
'A very good reference work 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.' - VicenteNavarro, Editor-in-Chief,
International Journal of Health Services
'Combines academic analysis with a call to mobilize the health professional
community to advocate for improvements in global health and justice.I hope
it will be read by many health professionals in rich and poor countries
alike.' - Professor Andy Haines, Director, London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine
'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 due to inadequate nutrition and lack of
access to health care, safe drinking water, and clean sewage systems. Each
year, some 18 million of them, including 10 million children under 5, die
from preventable or treatable medical conditions - accounting for one third
of all human deaths ... 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
2005-2006 is a courageous and promising effort in this direction.' - Thomas
Pogge, Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy,
Australian National University
'Global Health Watch 2005-2006 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. Global Health
Watch shows clearly that whether we are healthy or not is deeply rooted in
our political, economic and social structures. More important, 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-centredworld.'
- 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, Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Each chapter can be downloaded, or the whole document accessed at
http://www.ghwatch.org/2005report/ghw.pdf
The Medicines chapter is at http://www.ghwatch.org/2005report/B2.pdf
Global Health Action 2005-2006 (the associated campaign tool) is at
http://www.ghwatch.org2005reportGlobalHealthAction0506.pdr
Global HelathWatch 2005-2006 could be downloaded from
http://www.ghwatch.org/2005_report_contents.php
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