Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Health and poverty
Life and death in Cambodia
Comparative wealth of nations
TRIPS
WHO and TRIPS
Healthcare and health promotion
Within-community variation and between-community variation
Within-poor-community variation
References
Chapter 2 Problems caused by inequities in wealth and by environmental damage
The Christmas 2004 earthquake and tsunamis
The broad picture
War as a solution?
Global finance
Water, water everywhere --
but not to drink
How about a game of golf? What about climate change?Implications
Attendant consequences of lack of global control
Financial consequences
Big tidal waves and tsunamis
References
Chapter 3 Mortgaging the third world
Holding health hostage
Squeezed between 'upstream' and 'downstream' forces
The IMF and the World Bank
Origins of the IMF and World Bank
Structural adjustment
Sequence of events behind the debt crisis
Some consequences of the debt crisis
Jubilee 2000: a Christian Aid initiative
Environmental is international
Collective vs individual
Are the drug trade and debt linked? How can the first world protect itself?Upholding the banks
Lowering standards in the first world
A simple explanation of compound interest
First the goods, then the people
Impact of emigration on a society's health
Impact of immigration on first world social health
Wars, health promotion and the debt
References
Chapter 4 The conflict between global health and global finance: a case study approach
Addressing health inequalities
Reinforcing global inequalities
Case study 1: Uganda
Case study 2: privatising pharmaceutical provision in India
Privatisation, trade and the global market The impact of global finance on global healthPossible solutions
Cancellation of world debt
Accountability and sovereignty
Collective vs individual
Enforceable social charters and lobbying for change
Free trade vs fair trade and the WTO
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 The third world helping itself --
community health programmes
Forms of financing healthcare
Involving the community
What about the poorest of the poor in Nepal?
Trafficking for prostitution in Nepal
Similar community-based health programmes elsewhere
India
Men having the snip
Kerala --
a sustained success story PakistanYouth resource centres
The youth resource centre health camps
Pakistan and the refugees from Afghanistan
Sri Lanka and the condom
One more society vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
References
Chapter 6 Poverty, health and finance
Measuring poverty
What about measures of health inequality?
Establishing an agenda for global equity in health
The Maximin principle
Analysis of health financing strategies
Making locally financed policies 'pro-poor'
Tax-based financing
Social insurance funding
Private health insurance cover
User fees
Community-based health insurance
References
