Global Health Watch 6 Book Chapters Available for Download

Global Health Watch 6 (GHW6) book chapters are now available for download. By adopting a political-economic lens, the chapters illustrate the connections between the social, economic, political, commercial and environmental determinants of health and the structure of global power relations and economic governance. They also emphasize the importance of people’s ongoing struggles towards the goal of “Health for All”, through narratives of resistance and social movement activism.

GHW6 Index
 

A1 From pre-pandemic pathologies to post-pandemic hopefulness
 

A2 Gendered inequities during COVID-19 times: a view from the Global South
 

A3 From unethical growth to ethical degrowth: can capitalism be transformed?
 

B1 The Universal Health Coverage/Primary Health Care divide
 

B2 Global Health 2.0? Digital technologies, disruption, and power
 

B3 Healthcare and COVID-19: privatization by stealth
 

B4 Old/new politics of access to medicines
 

B5 Transforming mental healthcare globally
 

C1 Austerity rerun
 

C2 Unequal labor markets meet a disequalizing pandemic
 

C3 Confronting the commercial determinants of health
 

C4 Development model, extractivism, and environment: knitting resistances globally
 

C5 Transforming food systems for healthy people and a healthy planet
 

C6 Conflict and health in the era of coronavirus
 

D1 WHO and the politics of pandemics
 

D2 Shifting playing fields: how new trade treaties govern governments
 

D3 The United Nations, global governance, and the toll of funding failures
 

D4 Watching the international financial institutions: new rhetoric, old practice?
 

D5 The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: corporate ambitions and the future of multilateralism in and beyond global health
 

Conclusion: Building power in the struggle for health (justice): a call to health activists
 

Contributors to the GHW6
 

GHW6 Table of Content