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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.
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INDEX
3M Group company, 168
AAR Health Care Holdings, 313
Aboriginal children, forced removal of, 396
Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services (ACCHS), 7, 395, 399, 400
Aboriginal healthcare services, in Australia, 395–402
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the Northern Territory (AMSANT), 397–8, 399
Aboriginal peoples, self-determination of, 395
abortion, 147, 149, 154, 155, 216; declared illegal in Spain, 377
Abraaj Group, 311
absenteeism of health staff, 274
access to health facilities, 116–17, 151–4
Acciones Sociales Colectivas por el Derecho a la Salud (Colombia), 358
accountability, 37, 80, 92, 115, 125; in CHW programmes, 136; in clinical trials, 322–3, 322; in NHS, 100; lack of, 315; of private foundations, 280; of WHO, 263
ACHEST organization, 165
Actelion company, 324
Adams, Cary, 195
advocacy, 247, 264–5; global, 37
Afghanistan, 72
Africa Health Fund, 311
African Comprehensive AIDS and Malaria Partnership, 281
African Development Bank, 310
ageing: diseases of, 190; of societies, 86
agencification, 268
agricultural workers, declining demand for, 203
agriculture: sustainable, 208; traditional, undermined, 205
aid delivery mechanisms, neoliberal, 272
AIDS see HIV/AIDS
AIDS-related respiratory infections, 150
ALAMES organization, 1
alcohol: marketing of, regulation of, 260; use of, 188
Alice Springs (Australia), 395
Alliance D19–20 organization (Belgium), 379
alliances of social organizations, in Peru, 364
Alma Ata declaration (1978), 81, 134, 165, 396, 401
ancestral territory, preservation of, 336
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) system (UK), 100
Arab Spring, 2, 68–74
Arcelor-Mittal company, Genk (Belgium) factory, 37, 373
Argentina, 59, 63; clinical trials in, 324–6; ethical violations in, 320; IP legislation in, 290
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 301; return to Haiti, 302
arms industry, 273
arsenic, used in mining, 232
artificial hips, 171
asset-backed commercial papers (ABCPs), 19, 21
Astra Zeneca company, 326
asylum seekers, 252
austerity, 11, 22–4, 25, 31, 47, 50, 52, 88, 160, 401; rejection of, 28–30
Australia: Aboriginal Health Performance Fr...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Boxes, tables and figures
- Images
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section A The global political and economic architecture
- Section B Health systems: current issues and debates
- Section C Beyond healthcare
- Section D Watching
- Section E Resistance, actions and change
- Contributors
- Index