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Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report
Global Health Watch
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Description for Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report
Paperback. Covers a comprehensive range of health topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. This book also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors. Editor(s): Health Systems Trust. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 602.
In an increasingly integrated, globalised 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, civil society actors are asking, why is so little progress being made by global health actors? 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 ... Read more
In an increasingly integrated, globalised 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, civil society actors are asking, why is so little progress being made by global health actors? 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848130357
SKU
V9781848130357
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Global Health Watch
Global Health Watch is a collaboration of leading popular movements and nongovernmental 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report
'Ambitious, daring and foresighted, everyone should read GHW2. This is a brave report, and everyone will take something from it' Gill Walt, LSHTM 'Excellent ... I highly recommend this treasure trove, which is full of food for thought, to scholars and health workers alike' Maria Isabel Rodriguez, University of El Salvador 'We shall require many more ... Read more