Global health watch 3 : an alternative world health report.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economic crises and systemic failure : why we need to rethink the global economy -- Primary health care : a review and critical appraisal of its 'revitalisation' -- Financing health care : aiming for long-term solutions -- Health financing models that make health systems work : case studies from Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, and Thailand -- Dysfunctional health systems : case studies from China, India, and the US -- Achieving a shared goal : free universal health care in Ghana -- Maternal mortality : need for a broad framework of intervention -- Research for health -- Pandemic influenza preparedness : in search of a global health ethos -- Mental health and inequality -- The global food crisis -- Health information, conflict, and the right to health -- Trade and health -- The future is now : genetic promises and speculative finance -- Climate crisis -- Challenging the population : climate connection -- World Health Organization : captive to conflicting interests -- UNICEF and the 'medicalisation' of malnutrition in children -- Conflicts of interest within philanthrocapitalism -- The pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical endeavour -- Health and global security : reasons for concern -- The International Health Partnership⁺ : glass half full or half empty? -- The movement for change -- The right to health : from concept to action -- Cuba's international cooperation in health.