Global Health Watch 2

Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report
by the People’s Health Movement, Medact, and Global Equity Gauge Alliance
Zed Books, October 2008
386 Pages, Paperback, $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-84813-035-7

In an increasingly integrated, globalized world with new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in both health and access to health care, and an unacceptable level of human suffering and premature mortality in developing countries, this book asks: why is so little progress being made in global health?

Like its critically acclaimed predecessor, the second edition of Global Health Watch covers a comprehensive range of topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict.

Unlike other reports on global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key players. Global Health Watch 2 includes chapters on the United States foreign assistance program, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Global Health Watch 2 is not only an educational resource for health professional and activists; it also makes clear the need for global health activists to engage in lobbying key people and organizations to do better and to do more, and resisting those that do harm.

Related Materials

• To learn more about the struggle for global health, read the first volume of Global Health Watch

What people are saying about Global Health Watch 2:

"Ambitious, daring and foresighted, everyone should read GHW2. This is a brave report, and everyone will take something from it…"
- Gil Walt
Professor of International Health Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

"This edition explicitly builds upon its predecessor so that the two volumes can be used together…This book makes a compelling and coherent case. "
- Vic Neufeld
National Coordinator, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research

"This second Global Health Watch again gives us a comprehensive accounting of what constitutes our health – or lack of it….Now it is up to us to act. "
- Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj
Member of Parliament, Malaysia