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Global Health Watch
Global Health Watch offers a comprehensive survey of the key areas that influence the health of poor and vulnerable groups all over the world. It is also a call to all health workers to broaden and strengthen the global community of health advocates who are taking action on global ill-health and inequalities, and their underlying political and economic determinants. Published in England by Zed Press, Hesperian is carrying this book on behalf of Global Health Watch and the People's Health Movement (US). In order to make this information as widely available as possible, Global Health Watch has authorized us to make the entire book available as a free download. You can also purchase a copy of the book by clicking here:
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View and download chapters and fact sheets of this Global Health Watch publication:
- Global Health Watch 2005-2006 in one file
- Global Health Watch 2005-2006 by chapter
- Cover
- Preliminaries:
- Introduction
- Part A: Health for All in the 'borderless world'?
- Part B: Health care services and systems
- B1: Health care systems and approaches to health
- B2: Medicines
- B3: The global health worker crisis
- B4: Sexual and reproductive health
- B5: Gene technology
- Part C: Health of Vulnerable Communities
- C1: Indigenous peoples
- C2: Disabled people
- Part D: The wider health context
- D1: Climate change
- D2: Water
- D3: Food
- D4: Education
- D5: War
- Part E: Holding to account: global institutions, transnational corporations, rich countries
- E1: World Health Organization
- E2: UNICEF
- E3: World Bank and International Monetary Fund
- E4: Big business
- E5: Aid
- E6: Debt relief
- E7: Essential health research
- Part E: Conclusions
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