Global Health Watch 3: An Alternative World Health Report
People´s Health Movement
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Description for Global Health Watch 3: An Alternative World Health Report
Hardback. Like its critically acclaimed predecessors, this third volume of Global Health Watch covers a comprehensive range of topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. Editor(s): Sengupta, Amit. Num Pages: 382 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: MBN; MBP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
In an increasingly globalised world with new cross-border threats to public health and widening disparities between populations, civil society actors are challenging the existing structures of global health policies. Like its critically acclaimed predecessors, this third volume 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 most documentations of global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors. Global Health Watch books are the definite independent sources ... Read more
In an increasingly globalised world with new cross-border threats to public health and widening disparities between populations, civil society actors are challenging the existing structures of global health policies. Like its critically acclaimed predecessors, this third volume 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 most documentations of global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors. Global Health Watch books are the definite independent sources ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780320342
SKU
V9781780320342
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About People´s Health Movement
The Global Health Watch is a broad collaboration of public health experts, non-governmental organisations, 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 the neo-liberal dominance in health.
Reviews for Global Health Watch 3: An Alternative World Health Report
'Provides us with compelling evidence about all that is wrong with the governance of health care systems across the world. At the same time it also provides us with hope, in the many stories about what can be done and what is being done. The challenge before us is to act decisively on the evidence provided.' - Dr.Hafden Mahler former ... Read more