The Global Health Watch is a call to all
health workers to broaden and strengthen the global community of health
advocates who are taking action on global ill-health and inequalities,
and their underlying political and economic determinants.
The global community has failed to achieve 'Health for All by the
Year 2000'. New targets such as the Millennium Development goals
look increasingly unachievable. Questions need to be asked about
whether current policies in global health are working. The Global
Health Watch for 2005-2006 looks at some of the most important problems,
suggests solutions, and monitors the efforts of institutions and
governments concerned with promoting health world-wide.
This report arises out of many civil society and professional campaigns
and struggles for better health, and has been released to coincide
with the Second People's Health Assembly, held in Cuenca, Ecuador,
at which two thousand people from across the world have gathered
to discuss and debate strategies to overcome the political, economic
and social barriers to better and fairer health.
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