Global health watch 2005-2006 : an alternative world health report / People's Health Movement, Medact, Global Equity Gauge Alliance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health and globalization -- Health for all in the 'borderless world'? -- Health care services and systems -- Health care systems and approaches to health care -- Medicines -- The global health worker crisis -- Sexual and reproductive health -- Gene technology -- Health of vulnerable groups -- Indigenous peoples -- Disabled people -- The wider health context -- Climate change -- Water -- Food -- Education -- War -- Holding to account: global institutions, transnational corporations and rich countries -- World Health Organization -- UNICEF -- The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- Big business -- Aid -- Debt relief -- Essential health research.

This alternative world health report offers a comprehensive survey of the key areas that influence the health of poor and vulnerable groups in all countries. They range from climate change, water and nutrition to national health policies and services andthe 'brain drain' of health professionals from South to North.

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