Global Health Watch 6

In the Shadow of the Pandemic

Bloomsbury Publishing

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781913441265
• eBook ISBN:
  9781913441227
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, provides 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 was conceived in 2003 as a collaborative effort by activists and academics from across the world, and is designed to question present policies on health and to propose alternatives

Global Health Watch 6 (GHW6) has been coordinated by eight civil society organizations – the People's Health Movement, ALAMES, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, Third World Network, Medact, Sama and Viva Salud. With contributions from across the globe, GHW6 addresses key issues related to health systems and the range of social, economic, political and environmental determinants of health, locating decisions and choices that impact on health in the structure of global power relations and economic governance.

INDEX

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development here, here–here

Aarogya Setu App here

abortion here–here

AB-PMJAY see Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana

absolute income in US dollars 1980–2016 here

access here–here, here–here

Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here

access and UN funding here–here

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) here–here, here

ACT Health Promotion (Brazil) here–here

activism

degrowth here–here

digital health here–here

labor markets here, here

public health and geopolitics here–here

re-greening here

advertising here–here, here–here

advocacy efforts in Canadian mining here–here

Affordable Care Act (ACA) here

Afghanistan here

Africa

A&T healthcare here

austerity here–here

employment and COVID-19 here

inequality here–here

ISHU public–private partnership here–here

migration here

Ogoni People vs Shell in Nigeria here

politics of access here–here

trade and investment regimes here–here

trade treaties and government here

UNECA report here

unhealthy commodities here, here, here–here

Universal Basic Income here

universal/primary healthcare divide here–here, here, here–here

WEF treaty content here–here

World Bank/digital health startups here

World Economic Forum here–here see also South Africa

AGRA see Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

agriculture here, here–here, here–here, here–here

see also food

agroecology here–here

agro-industrial models here–here

AI see Artificial Intelligence

Aid and Trade (A&T) here, here

Alabama, US here, here

ALAMES see Latin American Social Medicine movement

alcohol here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Acronyms
• List of Images, Figures, Boxes, and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A1 From pre-pandemic pathologies to post-pandemic hopefulness
• A2 Gendered inequities during COVID-19 times: a view from the Global South
• A3 From unethical growth to ethical degrowth: can capitalism be transformed?
• B1 The Universal Health Coverage/Primary Health Care divide
• B2 Global Health 2.0? Digital technologies, disruption, and power
• B3 Healthcare and COVID-19: privatization by stealth
• B4 Old/new politics of access to medicines
• B5 Transforming mental healthcare globally
• C1 Austerity rerun
• C2 Unequal labor markets meet a disequalizing pandemic
• C3 Confronting the commercial determinants of health
• C4 Development model, extractivism, and environment: knitting resistances globally
• C5 Transforming food systems for healthy people and a healthy planet
• C6 Conflict and health in the era of coronavirus
• D1 WHO and the politics of pandemics
• D2 Shifting playing fields: how new trade treaties govern governments
• D3 The United Nations, global governance, and the toll of funding failures
• D4 Watching the international financial institutions: new rhetoric, old practice?
• D5 The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: corporate ambitions and the future of multilateralism in and beyond global health
• Conclusion: Building power in the struggle for health (justice): a call to health activists
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Imprint