Today's global health crisis reflects widening inequalities within and between countries As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, advances in science and technology are securing better health and longer lives for a small fraction of the world's population Meanwhile children die of diarrhoea for want of clean water, people with AIDS die одцдъ for want of affordable medicines, and poor people in all regions are increasingly cut off from the political, social and economic tools they can use to create their own health and well-being The real scandal is that the world lacks neither funds nor expertise to solve most of these problems Yet the predominance of conservative thinking and neoliberal economics has led the institutions that were established to promote social justice into imposing policies and practices that achieve just the opposite They police an unjust global trade regime with a doctrinaire insistence on privatization of public services, and preside over the failure to curb disease by tackling the poverty that enables it to flourish "Global Health Watch 2005-2006" is a collaboration of leading popular movements and non-governmental organizations comprising civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics It has compiled this alternative world health report - a hard-hitting, evidence-based analysis of the political economy of health and health care - as a challenge to the major global bodies that influence health Its monitoring of institutions including the World Bank, the World Health Organization and UNICEF reveals that while some important initiatives are being taken, much more needs to be done to have any hope of meeting the UN's health-related Millennium Development Goals The report also offers a comprehensive survey of current knowledge and thinking in the key areas that influence health, focusing throughout on the health and welfare of poor and vulnerable groups in all countries These issues range from climate change, water and nutrition to national health services and the brain drain of health professionals from South to North "Global Health Watch 2005-2006" is above all a call for action, written in a clear, accessible style to appeal to grass-roots health workers and activists worldwide, as well as to international policy-makers and national decisionmakers Its resource sections advocate actions everyone can take, while its recommendations show how better global health governance and practice could work for Health for All rather than health for the privileged few Формат: 15,5 см x 23,5 см.  BluetooИздательство: Zed Books, 2005 г Мягкая обложка, 384 стр ISBN 1 84277 569 3 Язык: Английский.