Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health ReportZed Books, 2005 - 368 pages This alternative world health report offers a comprehensive survey of the key areas that influence the health of poor and vulnerable groups in all countries. They range from climate change, water and nutrition to national health policies and services andthe 'brain drain' of health professionals from South to North. |
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... research questions 347 Figures A1 Trends in G7 development assistance 25 A2 B1.1 How debt servicing dwarfs development assistance Immunization coverage rates 25 71 B1.2 The circus of external agencies and initiatives B1.3 Factors vii.
... research questions 347 Figures A1 Trends in G7 development assistance 25 A2 B1.1 How debt servicing dwarfs development assistance Immunization coverage rates 25 71 B1.2 The circus of external agencies and initiatives B1.3 Factors vii.
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An Alternative World Health Report. B1.2 The circus of external agencies and initiatives B1.3 Factors undermining the PHC approach 8888 78 80 B1.4 Healthy life expectancy and private spending as per cent of total health spending 82 B1.5 ...
An Alternative World Health Report. B1.2 The circus of external agencies and initiatives B1.3 Factors undermining the PHC approach 8888 78 80 B1.4 Healthy life expectancy and private spending as per cent of total health spending 82 B1.5 ...
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Contents
Boxes figures and tables | 11 |
Part B Health care services and systems | 53 |
Countries in decline health and health care in Africa the former | 57 |
New Public Management | 66 |
The pitfalls of expanding antiretroviral treatment in developing | 73 |
The circus of external agencies and initiatives | 78 |
Millennium Development Goals for the financing of health care | 85 |
B2 Medicines | 100 |
The effect of transport on climate change and health | 195 |
Adaptation to climate change and equity | 204 |
D2 Water | 207 |
The public sector can do it just as well | 214 |
D3 Food | 225 |
Trends in child malnutrition in developing countries 19902000 | 226 |
Regulating the food industry | 236 |
D4 Education | 239 |
The mismatch between expenditure on medicines and health need | 101 |
The USAustralia free trade agreement | 107 |
How much does it cost to develop a new medicine? | 109 |
B3 The global health worker crisis | 119 |
The negative correlation between mortality rates and health worker | 120 |
The impact of HIVAIDS on health worker retention and performance | 124 |
The global human resources for health conveyor belt | 126 |
B4 Sexual and reproductive health | 134 |
B4 1 | 139 |
B5 Gene technology | 147 |
Health of vulnerable groups | 161 |
a failure? | 163 |
Health status of Indigenous peoples in four countries | 169 |
National Indigenous health research as a catalyst for development | 176 |
C2 Disabled people | 179 |
The facts about disability | 180 |
The independent living movement in the South some examples | 186 |
D1 Climate change | 193 |
Education and womens health | 242 |
D5 War | 253 |
The disastrous impact of war on the environment | 256 |
whose priorities? | 262 |
global institutions | 267 |
Milestones in WHO history | 273 |
WHO and the Peoples Health Movement | 286 |
E2 UNICEF | 293 |
E4 Big business | 307 |
Average company tax rates in the EU and OECD 19962003 | 320 |
E5 Aid | 322 |
Key privatization advisers | 328 |
Tables | 329 |
inflation or death? | 335 |
E7 Essential health research | 339 |
The value of national health research capacity in low and middle | 342 |
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