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Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781913441265

ISBN 10:   1913441261
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   19 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Tables, Figures, and Graphs Introduction Chapter A1: From pre-pandemic pathologies to post-pandemic hopefulness Chapter A2: Gendered inequities during COVID-19 times: a view from the Global South Chapter A3: From unethical growth to ethical degrowth: can capitalism be transformed? Chapter B1: The Universal Health Coverage Primary Health Care divide Chapter B2: Global Health 2.0? Digital technologies, disruption, and power Chapter B3: Healthcare and COVID-19 privatization by stealth Chapter B4: Old-new politics of access to medicines Chapter B5: Transforming mental health care globally Chapter C1: Austerity rerun Chapter C2: Unequal labor markets meet a disequalizing pandemic Chapter C3: Confronting the commercial determinants of health Chapter C4: Development model, extractivism, and environment: Knitting resistances globally Chapter C5: Transforming food systems for healthy people and a healthy planet Chapter C6: Conflict and health in the era of coronavirus Chapter D1: WHO and the politics of pandemics Chapter D2: Shifting playing fields how new trade treaties govern governments Chapter D3: The United Nations, global governance, and the toll of funding failures Chapter D4: Watching the international financial Institutions: New rhetoric, old practice? Chapter D5: The World Economic Forum's Great Reset Conclusion List of Contributors

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GHW 6 is an essential guide to the many global and national forces that are threatening our health, our planet and our equity. While this analysis is frightening the celebration of the power and force of progressive civil society like the People's Health Movement is a call to collective action and to remaining hopeful. * Fran Baum, Professor of Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia * Global Health Watch 6 will assist readers to better understand the causes and consequences of the health crises now afflicting human and planetary health, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the climate emergency , deaths of despair, and rising health inequities. Even better, the book connects readers to the many organizations, movements, and individuals that are working to create a healthier, more equitable and more sustainable world. * - Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, City University of New York School of Public Health, USA * At a time when global health often takes little notice of history and resulting power relationships between and within countries, Global Health Watch reliably fills this gap. GHW6, as in previous editions, marshals data and scholarship to support the right to health for all people. It helps answer the call to decolonize global health scholarship and practice. In these times, when pandemics, climate crisis accelerate inequality, it should be required reading for all who work in the field. * Mary T. Bassett MD MPH, Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, USA * Its chapters provide an extraordinary collection of evidence, perspectives and importantly a number of propositions to move reflection and activism on health and well-being from exposure and complaint to justice-driven organization, challenge, and action. With COVID-19 and ecological degradation reflecting and intensifying the acquisitive inequities of a neoliberal globalization, the GHW contributes analysis that merits debate within different regions and contexts for both self-determined and convergent action to build forward fairer. * Dr Rene Loewenson, TARSC/ Equity Watch Cluster, EQUINET East and Southern Africa * In our present context of unbridled inequity and ecosystem peril, the appearance of the Global Health Watch (GHW6) is a powerful sign of resistance and consciousness. A tool for people and conscious health workers and scientists, it represents a methodological and ethical alternative to the acritical recitation of health statistics all too common in global health writing. It is the type of the critical independent science we have been calling for, a bold radical science for an ailing world. * Jaime Breilh, Md. MSc. Ph.D. Former Rector, Universidad Andina, Ecuador; Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation of Collective Health; author of Critical Epidemiology and the Peoples Health (2021) * COVID-19 exemplifies global inequality. It also demonstrates the great power of individuals and communities. The GHW raises our determination for humanity. Keep Watching and Moving toward a fairer and better world. * Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Advisor to the Ministry of Public Health in Global Health, Thailand; Vice Chair, International Health Policy Program Foundation (IHPF) *

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The Global Health Watch is a broad collaboration of public health experts, non-governmental organizations, civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics. It was initiated by the People's Health Movement, Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Medact as a platform of resistance to neoliberal dominance in health.

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