Main description:

Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, provides the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggles and change to present a compelling case for the imperative to work for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health. It was conceived in 2003 as a collaborative effort by activists and academics from across the world, and is designed to question present policies on health and to propose alternatives

Global Health Watch 6 (GHW6) has been coordinated by eight civil society organizations - the People's Health Movement, ALAMES, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, Third World Network, Medact, Sama and Viva Salud. With contributions from across the globe, GHW6 addresses key issues related to health systems and the range of social, economic, political and environmental determinants of health, locating decisions and choices that impact on health in the structure of global power relations and economic governance.

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
List of Tables, Figures, and Graphs
Introduction
Chapter A1: From pre-pandemic pathologies to post-pandemic hopefulness
Chapter A2: Gendered inequities during COVID-19 times: a view from the Global South
Chapter A3: From unethical growth to ethical degrowth: can capitalism be transformed?
Chapter B1: The Universal Health Coverage Primary Health Care divide
Chapter B2: Global Health 2.0? Digital technologies, disruption, and power
Chapter B3: Healthcare and COVID-19 privatization by stealth
Chapter B4: Old-new politics of access to medicines
Chapter B5: Transforming mental health care globally
Chapter C1: Austerity rerun
Chapter C2: Unequal labor markets meet a disequalizing pandemic
Chapter C3: Confronting the commercial determinants of health
Chapter C4: Development model, extractivism, and environment: Knitting resistances globally
Chapter C5: Transforming food systems for healthy people and a healthy planet
Chapter C6: Conflict and health in the era of coronavirus
Chapter D1: WHO and the politics of pandemics
Chapter D2: Shifting playing fields how new trade treaties govern governments
Chapter D3: The United Nations, global governance, and the toll of funding failures
Chapter D4: Watching the international financial Institutions: New rhetoric, old practice?
Chapter D5: The World Economic Forum's Great Reset
Conclusion
List of Contributors