For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global governance mechanisms and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Like its predecessors, it challenges conventional wisdom while pioneering innovative new approaches to the field.Collaboratively written by academics and activists drawn from a variety of movements, research institutions and civil society groups, it covers some of the most pressing issues in world health, from the resurgence of epidemic diseases such as Ebola to the crisis in the WHO, climate change and the 'war on drugs'. Combining rigorous analysis with practical policy suggestions, Global Health Watch 5 offers an accessible and compelling case for a radical new approach to health and healthcare across the world.

Introduction Section A: The Global Political and Economic Architecture A1: Sustainable Development Goals in the age of Neoliberalism A2: 'Leave No One Behind' - Are SDGs the way forward? A3: Advances and Setbacks towards a Single Public Health System in Latin America A4: Structural Roots of Migration Section B: Health Systems: Current Issues and Debates B1: Universal Health Coverage: Only About Financial Protection? B2: Revitalizing Community Control in Primary Health Care B3: Healthcare in the USA: Understanding the Medical-Industrial Complex B4 : Contexualizing the Struggle of Health Workers in South Africa B5: The 'New' Karolinska Hospital: How PPPs Undermine Public Services B6: Access to Healthcare of Migrants in the EU B7: Informalisation of Employment in Public Health Services in South Asia Section C: Beyond Healthcare C1: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Health: Confronting the Realities C2: Gendered Approach to Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights C3: Health Reforms in Chile: Lack of Progress in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights C4: Trade Agreements and Health of Workers C5 : Public Health in the Extractive Sector in East and Southern Africa C6: The War on Drugs: From Law Enforcement to Public Health Section D: Watching D1: Money Talks at the World Health Organization D2: Private Philanthropic Foundations: What do they mean for Global Health? D3: Management Consulting Firms in Global Health D4: GAVI and Global Fund: Private Governance Structures Trump Public Oversight in Public Private Partnerships D5: Investment Treaties: Holding Governments to Ransom D6: Framing of Health as a Security Issue D7: Politics of Data, Information and Knowledge D8: Access and Benefit Sharing: The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework D9: Total Sanitation Programs at the Cost of Human Dignity Section E: Resistance, Actions and Change E1: Social Movements Defend Progressive Health Reforms in El Salvador E2: Contestations Concerning Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in India E3: People living with HIV in India: The Struggle for Access E4: Community Engagement in the Struggle for Health in Italy