PHM-Exch> New Book: The Health of Nations

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Gavin Mooney <gavin at gavinmooney.com>

New book: see   http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/the-health-of-nations and
below.

Gavin Mooney DSocSc (hc) Cape Town

The Health of NationsTowards a New Political Economy

Gavin Mooney

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is
there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive
inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this
devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin
Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of
neoliberalism.

The Health of Nations analyses how power is exercised both in health-care
systems and in society more generally. In doing so, it reveals how too many
vested interests hinder efficient and equitable policies to promote healthy
populations, while too little is done to address the social determinants of
health. Instead, Mooney argues, health services and health policy more
generally should be returned to the communities they serve.

Taking in a broad range of international case studies - from the UK to the
US, South Africa to Cuba - this provocative book places issues of power and
politics in health care systems centre stage, making a compelling case for
the need to re-evaluate how we approach health care globally.
Reviews

'The reader will be absorbed from the first to the last page. ... This book
is not only immediately relevant, it will become a classic' - Vicente
Navarro, in the Preface

'This is a biting and insightful book on what is wrong with the political
economy of the world today that so much goes wrong with our health systems.
Sharply written and informative in the best Zed tradition!' - Prof. Gita
Sen, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management

'This is Mooney at his 'no-holds-barred' best, laying bare the power
relationships affecting health. Unless health economists start paying
attention to the political economy of health, progress in solving the
health challenges facing us will be painfully slow. This book is setting us
on that path.' - Prof. Di McIntyre, Health Economics Unit, University of
Cape Town


Table of Contents

PART I - Introduction
Introduction: neoliberalism kills

PARTII - Why are things so bad?
1. Why has the economics of health care policy gone wrong?
2. Why have broader policies affecting health been inadequate ?
3. The malaise of neoliberalism in health, health care and health economics
4. Neoliberalism, the global institutions and health

PART III - Case studies
5. The US: the fear of ‘socialised’ health care
6. The UK National Health Service and the market
7. South Africa, neoliberalism and HIV/AIDS
8. Australia and victim blaming
9. Local community versus corporation
10. The pharmaceutical industry
11. Neoliberalism and global warming

PART IV - Solutions
12. The solutions in theory: communitarian claims
13. The solutions in health care
14. The solutions in society more generally

PART V - How things might get better
15. Kerala: community participation
16. Cuban health care and social determinants of health: just too good for
the US?
17. Venezuela: power to the community

PART VI - Conclusion
Conclusion: can we change?
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