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.

An invaluable alternative health report to the mainstream consensus that privatized health insurance (known as Universal Health Coverage) is the answer to the world’s health problems.'

• IntroductionSection A: The Global Political and Economic ArchitectureA1: Sustainable Development Goals in the age of NeoliberalismA2: ‘Leave No One Behind’ – Are SDGs the way forward?A3: Advances and Setbacks towards a Single Public Health System in Latin AmericaA4: Structural Roots of MigrationSection B: Health Systems: Current Issues and DebatesB1: Universal Health Coverage: Only About Financial Protection?B2: Revitalizing Community Control in Primary Health CareB3: Healthcare in the USA: Understanding the Medical-Industrial ComplexB4 : Contexualizing the Struggle of Health Workers in South AfricaB5: The ‘New’ Karolinska Hospital: How PPPs Undermine Public ServicesB6: Access to Healthcare of Migrants in the EUB7: Informalisation of Employment in Public Health Services in South AsiaSection C: Beyond HealthcareC1: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Health: Confronting the RealitiesC2: Gendered Approach to Reproductive and Sexual Health and RightsC3: Health Reforms in Chile: Lack of Progress in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and RightsC4: Trade Agreements and Health of WorkersC5 : Public Health in the Extractive Sector in East and Southern AfricaC6: The War on Drugs: From Law Enforcement to Public HealthSection D: WatchingD1: Money Talks at the World Health OrganizationD2: Private Philanthropic Foundations: What do they mean for Global Health? D3: Management Consulting Firms in Global HealthD4: GAVI and Global Fund: Private Governance Structures Trump Public Oversight in Public Private PartnershipsD5: Investment Treaties: Holding Governments to RansomD6: Framing of Health as a Security IssueD7: Politics of Data, Information and Knowledge D8: Access and Benefit Sharing: The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness FrameworkD9: Total Sanitation Programs at the Cost of Human DignitySection E: Resistance, Actions and ChangeE1: Social Movements Defend Progressive Health Reforms in El SalvadorE2: Contestations Concerning Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in IndiaE3: People living with HIV in India: The Struggle for AccessE4: Community Engagement in the Struggle for Health in Italy