Global Health Watch 2005-2006

This report is a joint production of the People's Health Movement, Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Medact. It is designed as an "alternative world health report that would highlight the root causes of poor health and reveal the gap between humanitarian rhetoric and reality." The report contains five thematic sections covering the context and status of global health, followed by a discussion of conclusions the authoring organisations draw from these topics.

Themes outlined in the report:

• Health and Globalisation-providing an overview of the harm to global health that the authors argue has been caused by economic globalisation
• Health Care Services and Systems-discussing medicines, the health worker crisis and gene technology
• Health of Vulnerable Groups-including indigenous groups and the disabled
• The Wider Health Context-covering the role of climate, water, food, education and war
• Holding to Account-discussing the role of global institutions, transnational corporations and the richer countries

The publication concludes with a discussion of "shared central concerns" raised throughout the report and considered of importance by the authoring organisations:

• Intolerable and worsening inequalities
• A deep democratic-deficit in global governance which underpins repeated policy failure
• Insufficient global health leadership
• The need to focus on rebuilding the public sector in the face of widespread commercialisation
• The need to strengthen synergies between public actions in a diversity of fields which benefit health

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