PHM-Exch> [PHM NEWS] GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH 6 Call for case studies

[Claudio Schuftan]

GHW6 – Call for case studies
February 17, 2020 <https://phmovement.org/ghw6-call-for-case-studies/> by
Chiara <https://phmovement.org/author/chiara/>

https://phmovement.org/ghw6-call-for-case-studies/
About Global Health Watch (GHW)

GHW is a collaboration of multiple activist academics and NGOs, defining
itself as an *alternative world health report* that incorporates the voices
of marginalized people and civil society into discussions around social
justice and global health.

GHW aims to:

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   provide a forum for global civil society to *question and challenge the
   influence of neoliberalism on health* and global health policy;
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   shift the health policy agenda to recognize the *political, social and
   economic determinants of health*;
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   monitor the activities of *global institutions*;
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   highlight *resistance* and *alternatives*;
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   make *recommendations for change*.

The periodic production of GHWs is led by the *People’s Health Movement
(PHM)* (*https://phmovement.org/ <https://phmovement.org/>*) with
contributors elicited from a number of different academics and NGOs
worldwide. For more information, please visit its home page at:
*https://www.ghwatch.org/
<https://www.ghwatch.org/>*.

GHW6 builds upon the previous 5 volumes updating ongoing struggles for
health, introducing new topics and analyses, and describing the actions now
being taken by health activists, and those that need more attention, in our
era of profound ecological crises and global inequality.

Chiara Bodini (Italy; GHW coordinator within the PHM global Steering
Council) and Ronald Labonté (Canada) are the co-editors of GHW6, supported
by an Editorial Team: Mauricio Torres (Colombia), Sarojini Nadimpally
(India), Penina Khisa (Kenya), Lauren Paremoer (South Africa / Senegal),
David Woodward (UK), and Elias Kondilis (Greece). The volume will be
published by Zed Books (UK).
How you can contribute

The GHW6 Editorial Team has identified broad areas to be covered in the 6th
issue of GHW, which is officially scheduled for release in mid 2021. *We
are now seeking your assistance in sourcing case studies that can add value
to each of these important topics*.

These case studies and testimonies will form part of the electronic
accompaniment to the development of GHW6 and in some cases may also appear
in the electronic or print edition of the book (as boxes with the chapters
or, with the help of the chapter lead author or GHW6 co-editors, may be
integrated directly within the chapter text). The case studies will amplify
and give a more personal voice to the contents of GHW6. They will also make
the issues more accessible and meaningful to readers who may be able to see
their own experiences reflected in the experiences of others.

Case studies can be submitted by individual authors or by groups. Please *send
all contributions to Chiara Bodini* (GHW coordinator within the PHM global
Steering Council) at *chiara at phmovement.org <chiara at phmovement.org>*, *by
May 31**st** 2020.*
Guidelines and criteria for submission

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   We are looking for *short and concise submissions* *of 500-1000 words*.
   These can either be stories (personal story or reflections written in your
   own words) or case studies (synthesis of experiences which may include
   direct quotes illustrating an issue or a number of issues).
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   They should be relevant for people’s health, and reflect a personal or
   group experience.
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   They should cover issues broadly falling within the framework of GHW6
   outline (see below), for which lead authors have already been identified.
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   Statistical information should not be used except in support of case
   studies/testimony and in which case it should be kept to a minimum.
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   Please avoid academic and scientific jargon. The testimonies need to be
   accessible and readable.
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   If possible, they should have a narrative / story telling character.
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   Contributions can be submitted in the following languages: English,
   French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic (for additional languages, please check
   with Chiara Bodini at *chiara at phmovement.org <chiara at phmovement.org>*).

Please indicate:

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   your organisation (if you are part of one);
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   your locality/country/region;
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   whether you want your submission to be anonymous and why;
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   what section you think your case is most relevant to (see below).

The publication will be freely downloadable from the internet so
effectively there will be no copyright. Please inform us if your story or
case study has been submitted / published elsewhere. Also please make sure
that there are no personal details that anyone would not want made public;
names and place names can be changed.

The GHW6 Editorial Team will consider submitted stories and case studies
for inclusion on the website or within the electronic and/or print edition
of GHW6. Not all stories and case studies will be accepted for a variety of
reasons including space and consistency. The GHW6 Editorial Team reserves
the right to edit all submissions prior to publication.

Please note that case studies and stories posted on the website will have
the following disclaimer: “The views expressed do not necessarily represent
those of the editors of the GHW. While we make every effort to ensure that
all facts and figures quoted by authors are accurate, the GHW and the
editors of GHW cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies.”
GHW6 outline


*Part A: *

*Global Political and Economic Architecture – **The World Health Check-Up*

*A1. Overview of our leading (existential) health crises* *– *economic
inequalities, ecological degradation/climate change, migration/population
pressures and xenophobia, crisis situations, taxation systems; include the
rise of autocracy and nationalism/populism and the shrinking of political
space for health (causes, consequences, movements of resistance).

*A2. Gender equity and health / intersectionality* – gender
discrimination/inequalities in health and responses by movements; systemic
attack/setback towards sexual and reproductive health rights of women:
gendered interrogation of the rising global trend of fundamentalism, gender
based violence, social exclusion (abortion rights, Global Gag policy,
rampant sexual violence faced by women refugees like Rohingya women, etc.)

*A3. Displacing the consumption/growth model – *degrowth – wage/ green
employment-led growth – redistribution; alternative metrics; fossil fuel
(dis)investment; ‘Glocalization/deglobalization’ – revitalizing local
economies of sustainability; rebalancing consumption (less for some, more
for others, within environmental limits) -> applying these concepts to the
health sector; Doughnut economics (focus on ecological
safety/sustainability and social justice which are basic tenets of revised
imagination of a fair and just economics system/as represented in Doughnut
economics model)

*Part B: *

*Health Systems – **Health for All: A Luta Continua*

*B1. Primary Health Care (PHC) / Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – *updating
current discussion (move on from previous GHWs; increase in private
insurance; failure of coverage, gender aspect/impact of private insurance
policies); look at blended financing (Addis Ababa Statement) and equity
issues in seeking to mobilize private capital and investment; case studies
proposed by PHM Uganda (Public-Private Partnerships in UHC context + World
Bank Global Financing Facility).

*B2. Health implications of new or emergent technologies* – e.g.
implications for health systems of Artificial Intelligence, robotics,
digitalisation of healthcare; broader implications of breaking up the
health tech monopolies, technology and surveillance state/surveillance
capitalism and social determinants of health

*B3. Privatization* – increased emphasis on role of private sector in UHC,
drivers/mechanisms of privatization of health care, outsourcing and
fragmentation of care, impacts of outsourcing on health of health workers
in the private sector, role of private insurance in promoting
privatization, p4p/new public management as drivers of privatization, role
of private consulting firms in shaping health systems policies (including
privatization)

*B4. Access to medicines – *Essential Medicines List (EML), changes in
politics of medicines, new trade treaty provisions, biologics, financing
for research, transparency in pricing

*B5. Decolonising health *– integrating indigenous/community health
knowledges in health systems; respect self-care knowledge of different
groups; framed in the broader resistance/political struggles of indigenous
groups; contributions (short narratives) from different parts of the world.

*B6. Mental health care crisis in High, Low and Middle Income
Countries – *increased
funding -> big pharma; overly medicalised approach; strengthening users
networks; integrating with health system; social response; global led
initiative and mental healthcare

*Part C: *

*Beyond Health Care*

*C1. Austerity redux – *welfare benefits/entitlements/austerity and gender
inequalities-inherent biases and their impact on women within policies
driven by austerity measures; and failure of privatization of social
protection

*C2. Transformation of labour – *precarity, impacts on workers’ health,
informalisation; gendered implications, implications for health and rights
– social protection and gender equality as a policy response; include
Universal Basic Income (including feminist demand/analysis on basic income
incorporating aspect of reproductive labour and social production)

*C3. Commercial determinants of health: Challenging the rise of unhealthy
commodities – *trade, corporate stuff (e.g. Philip Morris International and
so-called smoke-free world, vaping), opposition to regulation, Chile
(labelling, etc.); the rise of syndemics (bringing together climate change,
under-nutrition and over-nutrition)

*C4. Protecting the health of the environmental commons *– planetary
health/ecological overshoot/biodiversity protection; climate breakdown; air
and water pollution; pesticides; agrotoxics; One Health, antimicrobial
resistance (AMR) and antibiotic resistance (ABR), and effective governance
of AMR

*C5. Sustainable food systems, food sovereignty, food ecology*

*C6. Challenging social exclusion and the rise of violent
discrimination – *rise
in ethnic and racial forms of xenophobia (also linked to increased
migration); examples of this being challenged and pushed back against (e.g.
indigenous people movements, sex workers movement, etc.)

*C7. Conflict, repression, opposition, and peace –* conflict and public
health (revitalizing global peace movements), war and security industry

*Part D: *

*Watching: Governing for Health Equity*

*D1. WHO Watch*

*D2. Governing trade and investment for health – *trade justice and gender
equality (specific negative impacts of free trade policies on women and
their economic/work security; overall impact/relationship of trade policy
on women; critically analysing the World Trade Organization – WTO joint
declaration on trade and women’s empowerment within the trade justice
framework)

*D3. State of the UN: challenges for healthy global governance: *human
rights; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); box on International
Conference on Population and Development ICDP+25 (Nairobi November 2019)
and Commission on the Status of Women CSW64/Beijing+25 (New York March
2020): need for bringing in focus on gender equality and Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights (SHRH) within UHC/SDG planning/commitment

*D4. Watching the IFIs – *World Bank, International Monetary Fund – IMF,
International Financing Facility – IFF, etc.

*D5. Corporate practices and behaviours* – corporatization of civil society
/ participation in global partnerships; developing corporate health impact
assessment; regulating transnational corporations (TNCs) – UN treaty;
Corporate Social Responsibility (pros and cons)

*Final chapter “Calling All Health Activists”*
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