Commendations of the GHW 2

‘Ambitious, daring and foresighted, everyone should read GHW2.
This is a brave report, and everyone will take something from it …’

Gill Walt
Professor of international health policy, LSHTM

‘Excellent … I highly recommend this treasure trove, which is
full of food for thought, to scholars and health workers alike.’

Dr Maria Isabel Rodriguez,
Rector of University of El Salvador 1999–2007

‘We shall require many more social innovations, like the People Health
Charter, the People Health Movement and the Global Health Watch,
if mankind is to survive.’

Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert, MD,
Senior advisor on disease control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

‘… an extremely important intervention in the debate on global health
policies … sets a new standard for international reports into global
social, economic and political issues. All those interested in such
critical international issues will find GHW2 essential reading …
an important and unique document.’

Don Robotham
Professor of anthropology, City University of New York

‘… an important contribution to understand the overwhelming
health problems and their relation to the globalised oppressive
world economy.’

Asa Cristina Laurell,
Former secretary of health of Mexico City
and secretary of health of the legitimate government of Mexico

‘This edition explicitly builds upon its predecessor so that the
two volumes can be used together … this book makes a compelling
and coherent case.’

Professor Vic Neufeld
National coordinator,Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research

‘This second Global Health Watch again gives us a comprehensive
accounting of what constitutes our health – or lack of it …
now it is up to us to act.’

Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj
Socialist MP for Sungai Siput, Malaysia
and secretary of the Coalition against the Privatisation of the (Malaysian) Health Service

 ‘For everyone who remains disappointed by the inability of the many
global accounts of health and disease to address the fundamental causes of global ill-health and premature death, this is the alternative. GHW2 looks fearlessly and truthfully at issues which daily occupy the minds of thinking health professionals: reversing poverty, eliminating inequities, tackling environmental change and dealing directly with the delivery of effective health and social services. … GHW2 focuses on realisable solutions to each of these problems.’

Hoosen M. ‘Jerry’ Coovadia,
Victor Daitz professor of HIV/AIDS research, University of KwaZulu–Natal, Durban

‘An incisive socio-political critique of contemporary global health issues
which focuses on determinants rather than diseases, enables the reader to unravel the complexity of global economic governance of health, and helps us understand why appalling health inequities persist across and within nations – a must-read for anyone involved or interested in public health.’

K. Srinath Reddy,
President, Public Health Foundation of India

‘Global Health Watch 2 is insightful and provocative. It goes beyond
the traditional health sector. It discusses economic, social and political
preconditions for improving health for all. It does not shy away from
highlighting the relation between the health of poor and marginalised
people with the wealth appropriated by richer people, who have access to political power. In this sense, it is a true developmental report. The facts presented are a reason for great concern. They call for action.’

Jan Pronk
Professor of theory and practice of international development,
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague