From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gavin Mooney</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinmooney.com">gavin@gavinmooney.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br>New book: see <a href="http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/the-health-of-nations" target="_blank">http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/the-health-of-nations</a> and below.<br>
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The Health of Nations</h1><h2 style="font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.3em;font-weight:normal">Towards a New Political Economy</h2><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.1em">Gavin Mooney</span></p>
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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.<br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
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Reviews</h2><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px">'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<br>
<br>'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<br>
<br>'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<br>
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Table of Contents</h2><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px">PART I - Introduction<br>Introduction: neoliberalism kills<br><br>PARTII - Why are things so bad?<br>1. Why has the economics of health care policy gone wrong? <br>
2. Why have broader policies affecting health been inadequate ?<br>3. The malaise of neoliberalism in health, health care and health economics <br>4. Neoliberalism, the global institutions and health<br><br>PART III - Case studies<br>
5. The US: the fear of ‘socialised’ health care<br>6. The UK National Health Service and the market<br>7. South Africa, neoliberalism and HIV/AIDS<br>8. Australia and victim blaming<br>9. Local community versus corporation <br>
10. The pharmaceutical industry<br>11. Neoliberalism and global warming<br><br>PART IV - Solutions<br>12. The solutions in theory: communitarian claims <br>13. The solutions in health care <br>14. The solutions in society more generally<br>
<br>PART V - How things might get better<br>15. Kerala: community participation <br>16. Cuban health care and social determinants of health: just too good for the US?<br>17. Venezuela: power to the community<br><br>PART VI - Conclusion<br>
Conclusion: can we change?<br><br></p></div></span><br></div></div><br></div>