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.

Introduction
Section A: The Global Political and Economic Architecture
A1 The Health Crises of Neoliberal Globalization
A2 Fiscal Policies in Europe in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Implications for Health
A3 Social Struggle, Progressive Governments, and Health in Latin America
A4 After the Arab Spring

Section B: Health systems: current issues and debates
B1. The Current Discourse on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
B2. The National Health Service (NHS): Prey to Neoliberal Lust for Markets
B3. Reform of the Mexican Healthcare System: The Untold Story
B4. Brazil: The Rocky Road to a Universal Healthcare System
B5. South Africa: Building or Destroying Health Systems?
B6. The Right to Health in Tunisia
B7. The Revival of Community Health Workers in National Health Systems
B8. The Crisis of Maternal and Reproductive Health
B9. The Global Health Workforce Crisis
B10. The Politics and Landscape of Medical Devices in a Global Market

Section C: Beyond Healthcare
C1. Social Protection: Reimagining Development
C2. Non-Communicable Diseases: Is Big Business Hijacking the Debate?
C3. Nutrition and Food Sovereignty
C4. Breaking Free from Gender-Based Violence
C5. Talking Shit: Is Community Led Total Sanitation Empowering or Divisive?
C6. Extractive Industries and Health

Section D: Watching
D1. WHO Reform: For What Purpose?
D2. A New 'Business Model' for NGOs?
D3. Private Sector Influence on Public Health Policy
D4. The TRIPS Agreement: Two Decades of Failed Promises
D5. Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
D6. The International Finance Corporation's 'Health in Africa' Initiative
D7. The Ethical Cost of Offshoring Clinical Trials

Section E: Resistance, Actions and Change
E1. Reframing Health in Bolivia Around the Concept of 'Living Well'
E2. Social Shange in El Salvador and the Health Sector
E3. Venezuela: The Impact on Health of Social Change
E4. Colombia: Social Struggles Against the Commodification of Health
E5. Peru: Social Movement Against Neoliberal Reforms
E6. Struggles for Health in Europe
E7. The Struggle Against a Destructive Mining Project in Greece
E8. The Right to Food campaign in India
E9. Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services in Australia