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profit.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">John Lister, Libri Publishing<span style>  </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000076"><a href="http://www.libripublishing.co.uk/"><span style>www.libripublishing.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:TrajanPro-Regular;color:#000076"> <span style> </span>London</span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Paperback <b>• </b>ISBN: 978 1 907471 78 0 <b>• </b>360pp <b>• </b>228 x
152mm</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">£25.00, €30.00, US$ 40.00, C$ 40.00</span></p><br><b style><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000099" lang="EN-GB">Press </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000099" lang="EN-GB">release</span>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><u><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">New book dissects global
health reforms</span></u></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><em><b style><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:normal">“</span></b></em><b style><span style="font-family:Arial">As a journalist by trade I always want to get the
most up to date, accurate and readable account across, to make people aware of
the policies that are being promoted in our name by politicians at home and
abroad. </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style><span style="font-family:Arial">“I have always wanted to see a serious,
critical analysis of health policy reform, to give an overview of what is
happening and put specific issues in context. </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style><span style="font-family:Arial">“This is my best shot at doing just
that. <span style> </span>I hope it makes many more people
aware, angry and active – if we can achieve that, we can start to reverse some
of the damage that is being done.<em><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:normal">”</span></em></span></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">So says <b style>John Lister</b><b style>,</b> one of the leading advocates of </span></em><span style="font-family:Arial">equity-oriented,
rights-based approaches to the design and operation of health systems, in both
rich and poor countries alike.<em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span></em></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">John
 Lister</span></em><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">’s book ‘Health Policy Reform:
Driving the Wrong Way’, published in 2005, was hailed as ‘</span></em><i><span style="font-family:Arial">the definitive critique of market-oriented health
care ‘reforms’ that the World Bank has been promoting at least since 1993’. </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial">Now Libri Publishing is
pleased to announce the publication of his completely revised and restructured
analysis of health policy, </span><i style><span style="font-family:Arial">‘Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private
Profit’. </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial">In this, John Lister <span style>brings
his critique of health policy up-to-date. He continues to question whether </span>the
major 'reforms' which have been, and are still being, introduced are driven
primarily by the health needs of the wider population or, in fact, by
non-health considerations - the financial and political concerns of governments
and global institutions.<i style> </i><span style><span style> </span><span style> </span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Arial">John Lister’s writings fill a
gap in the literature covering the recent history of healthcare provision and
are unique in their global scope. In <i style>Health
Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit’ </i>Lister<i style> </i>presents the key issues facing health
professionals today. He produces a consistent and coherent critical analysis of
different situations in different countries, making his approach wholly unlike
those of previous, less comprehensive studies. With extensive evidence and over
60 pages of references, the book is essential reading for clinicians and
administrators alike, as well as for all students of health policy and
management.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Arial">Colin Leys, emeritus
professor of political studies Queen’s University, Canada, and joint author <i style>The Plot Against the NHS </i>says of <i style>‘Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus
Private Profit’ </i></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><i style><span style="font-family:Arial">“Lister’s knowledge of the literature, lucid
reasoning and clean prose are a class act. This is a major achievement which
everyone interested in health needs to read.”</span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Arial">Martin
McKee CBE, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine says:</span></p>

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 Lister takes on the narrative being peddled by the new global
elite and their cheerleaders who are mounting a sustained attack on what
remains of the welfare state, with health care as one of their prime targets.
Lister shows that there is an alternative, but it is up to us to seize it.”</span></i></p>

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<b style><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">If you would like a
review copy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> of <b style><i style>Health Policy Reform: Global
Health versus Private Profit</i></b> please contact Pat Graham at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:Pat.Graham@libripublishing.co.uk"><span style lang="EN-GB">Pat.Graham@libripublishing.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> or telephone 07540125926.<br>
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