Global Health Watch 5

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 neoliberal dominance in health.

Introduction

Section A: The Global Political and Economic Architecture
A1: Sustainable Development Goals in the age of Neoliberalism
A2: ‘Leave No One Behind’ – Are SDGs the way forward?
A3: Advances and Setbacks towards a Single Public Health System in Latin America
A4: Structural Roots of Migration

Section B: Health Systems: Current Issues and Debates
B1: Universal Health Coverage: Only About Financial Protection?
B2: Revitalizing Community Control in Primary Health Care
B3: Healthcare in the USA: Understanding the Medical-Industrial Complex
B4 : Contexualizing the Struggle of Health Workers in South Africa
B5: The ‘New’ Karolinska Hospital: How PPPs Undermine Public Services
B6: Access to Healthcare of Migrants in the EU
B7: Informalisation of Employment in Public Health Services in South Asia

Section C: Beyond Healthcare
C1: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Health: Confronting the Realities
C2: Gendered Approach to Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights
C3: Health Reforms in Chile: Lack of Progress in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
C4: Trade Agreements and Health of Workers
C5 : Public Health in the Extractive Sector in East and Southern Africa
C6: The War on Drugs: From Law Enforcement to Public Health

Section D: Watching
D1: Money Talks at the World Health Organization
D2: Private Philanthropic Foundations: What do they mean for Global Health?
D3: Management Consulting Firms in Global Health
D4: GAVI and Global Fund: Private Governance Structures Trump Public Oversight in Public Private Partnerships
D5: Investment Treaties: Holding Governments to Ransom
D6: Framing of Health as a Security Issue
D7: Politics of Data, Information and Knowledge
D8: Access and Benefit Sharing: The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework
D9: Total Sanitation Programs at the Cost of Human Dignity

Section E: Resistance, Actions and Change
E1: Social Movements Defend Progressive Health Reforms in El Salvador
E2: Contestations Concerning Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in India
E3: People living with HIV in India: The Struggle for Access
E4: Community Engagement in the Struggle for Health in Italy