Global Health Watch 4

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 the neoliberal dominance in health.

• IntroductionSection A: The Global Political and Economic ArchitectureA1 The Health Crises of Neoliberal GlobalizationA2 Fiscal Policies in Europe in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Implications for HealthA3 Social Struggle, Progressive Governments, and Health in Latin AmericaA4 After the Arab SpringSection B: Health systems: current issues and debatesB1. The Current Discourse on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)B2. The National Health Service (NHS): Prey to Neoliberal Lust for MarketsB3. Reform of the Mexican Healthcare System: The Untold StoryB4. Brazil: The Rocky Road to a Universal Healthcare SystemB5. South Africa: Building or Destroying Health Systems?B6. The Right to Health in TunisiaB7. The Revival of Community Health Workers in National Health SystemsB8. The Crisis of Maternal and Reproductive HealthB9. The Global Health Workforce CrisisB10. The Politics and Landscape of Medical Devices in a Global MarketSection C: Beyond HealthcareC1. Social Protection: Reimagining DevelopmentC2. Non-Communicable Diseases: Is Big Business Hijacking the Debate?C3. Nutrition and Food SovereigntyC4. Breaking Free from Gender-Based ViolenceC5. Talking Shit: Is Community Led Total Sanitation Empowering or Divisive?C6. Extractive Industries and HealthSection D: WatchingD1. WHO Reform: For What Purpose?D2. A New 'Business Model' for NGOs?D3. Private Sector Influence on Public Health PolicyD4. The TRIPS Agreement: Two Decades of Failed PromisesD5. Cholera Epidemic in HaitiD6. The International Finance Corporation's 'Health in Africa' InitiativeD7. The Ethical Cost of Offshoring Clinical TrialsSection E: Resistance, Actions and ChangeE1. Reframing Health in Bolivia Around the Concept of 'Living Well'E2. Social Shange in El Salvador and the Health SectorE3. Venezuela: The Impact on Health of Social ChangeE4. Colombia: Social Struggles Against the Commodification of HealthE5. Peru: Social Movement Against Neoliberal ReformsE6. Struggles for Health in EuropeE7. The Struggle Against a Destructive Mining Project in GreeceE8. The Right to Food campaign in IndiaE9. Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services in Australia

Global Health Watch 4 challenges us to look at health and health care from a critical perspective, providing a bridge between big, global questions and independent local issues. It not only 'watches' what is unfolding before our eyes but also offers inspiration and strategies for changing what we do not like. Essential reading for the movers and shakers in health policy the world over.