Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health Report

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Zed 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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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
Index
361
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