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<h1 class="entry-title">GHW6 – Call for case studies</h1> <div class="entry-meta">
<span class="gmail-posted-on"><a href="https://phmovement.org/ghw6-call-for-case-studies/" title="4:58 pm" rel="bookmark">February 17, 2020</a></span> <span class="gmail-byline"><span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard">by <a class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" href="https://phmovement.org/author/chiara/" title="View all posts by Chiara" rel="author"><span class="gmail-author-name">Chiara</span></a><br></span></span></div><div class="entry-meta"><br></div><div class="entry-meta"><a href="https://phmovement.org/ghw6-call-for-case-studies/">https://phmovement.org/ghw6-call-for-case-studies/</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> </span><br><span class="gmail-byline"><span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard"></span></span> </div>
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<h2 class="gmail-western" align="justify">About Global Health Watch (GHW)</h2>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">GHW is a collaboration of multiple activist academics and NGOs, defining itself as an <b>alternative world health report</b> that incorporates the voices of marginalized people and civil society into discussions around social justice and global health.</p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">GHW aims to:</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">provide a forum for global civil society to <b>question and challenge the influence of neoliberalism on health</b> and global health policy;</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">shift the health policy agenda to recognize the <b>political, social and economic determinants of health</b>;</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">monitor the activities of <b>global institutions</b>;</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">highlight <b>resistance</b> and <b>alternatives</b>;</p>
</li><li>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">make <b>recommendations for change</b>.</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">The periodic production of GHWs is led by the </span><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif"><b>People’s Health Movement (PHM)</b></span><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif"> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><a href="https://phmovement.org/"><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">https://phmovement.org/</span></a></u></span><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">)
with contributors elicited from a number of different academics and
NGOs worldwide. For more information, please visit its home page at: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><a href="https://www.ghwatch.org/"><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">https://www.ghwatch.org/</span></a></u></span><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">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.</span><b> </b></p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify"><span style="font-family:Liberation Serif,serif">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). </span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif">The volume will be published by Zed Books (UK).</span></p>
<h2 class="gmail-western" align="justify">How you can contribute</h2>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">The GHW6 Editorial Team has identified broad areas to be covered in the 6<sup>th</sup> issue of GHW, which is officially scheduled for release in mid 2021. <b>We are now seeking your assistance in sourcing case studies that can add value to each of these important topics</b>.</p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">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.</p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">Case studies can be submitted by individual authors or by groups. Please <b>send all contributions to Chiara Bodini</b> (GHW coordinator within the PHM global Steering Council) at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><a href="mailto:chiara@phmovement.org">chiara@phmovement.org</a></u></span>, <b>by May 31</b><sup><b>st</b></sup><b> 2020.</b></p>
<h2 class="gmail-western">Guidelines and criteria for submission</h2>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">We are looking for <b>short and concise submissions</b> <b>of 500-1000 words</b>.
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).</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">They should be relevant for people’s health, and reflect a personal or group experience.</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">They should cover issues broadly
falling within the framework of GHW6 outline (see below), for which lead
authors have already been identified.</p>
</li><li>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">Statistical information should not be
used except in support of case studies/testimony and in which case it
should be kept to a minimum.</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">Please avoid academic and scientific jargon. The testimonies need to be accessible and readable.</p>
</li><li>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">If possible, they should have a narrative / story telling character.</p>
</li><li>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">Contributions can be submitted in the
following languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic (for
additional languages, please check with Chiara Bodini at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><a href="mailto:chiara@phmovement.org">chiara@phmovement.org</a></u></span>).</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">Please indicate:</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">your organisation (if you are part of one);</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">your locality/country/region;</p>
</li><li>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">whether you want your submission to be anonymous and why;</p>
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<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">what section you think your case is most relevant to (see below).</p>
</li></ul>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">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.</p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">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.</p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify">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.”</p>
<h2 class="gmail-western">GHW6 outline</h2></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p><b>Part A: </b></p>
<p><b>Global Political and Economic Architecture – </b><i><b>The World Health Check-Up</b></i></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>A1. Overview of our leading (existential) health crises</b></span> <span lang="en-GB"><b>– </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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).</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>A2. Gender equity and health / intersectionality</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
– 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.)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>A3. Displacing the consumption/growth model – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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)</span></p>
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<p><b>Part B: </b></p>
<p><b>Health Systems – </b><i><b>Health for All: A Luta Continua</b></i></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B1. Primary Health Care (PHC) / Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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).</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B2. Health implications of new or emergent technologies</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
– 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</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B3. Privatization</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
– 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)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B4. Access to medicines – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">Essential
Medicines List (EML), changes in politics of medicines, new trade
treaty provisions, biologics, financing for research, transparency in
pricing</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B5. Decolonising health </b></span><span lang="en-GB">– i</span><span lang="en-GB">ntegrating
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.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>B6. Mental health care crisis in High, Low and Middle Income Countries – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">increased
funding -> big pharma; overly medicalised approach; strengthening
users networks; integrating with health system; social response; global
led initiative and mental healthcare</span></p>
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<p><b>Part C: </b></p>
<p><b>Beyond Health Care</b></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C1. Austerity redux – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C2. Transformation of labour – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C3. Commercial determinants of health: Challenging the rise of unhealthy commodities – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C4. Protecting the health of the environmental commons </b></span><span lang="en-GB">– pl</span><span lang="en-GB">anetary
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</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C5. Sustainable food systems, food sovereignty, food ecology</b></span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C6. Challenging social exclusion and the rise of violent discrimination – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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.)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>C7. Conflict, repression, opposition, and peace –</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> conflict and public health (revitalizing global peace movements), war and security industry</span></p>
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<p><b>Part D: </b></p>
<p><b>Watching: Governing for Health Equity</b></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>D1. WHO Watch</b></span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>D2. Governing trade and investment for health – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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)</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>D3. State of the UN: challenges for healthy global governance: </b></span><span lang="en-GB">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</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>D4. Watching the IFIs – </b></span><span lang="en-GB">World Bank, International Monetary Fund – IMF, International Financing Facility – IFF, etc.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><b>D5. Corporate practices and behaviours</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
– 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)</span></p>
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<p><b>Final chapter “Calling All Health Activists”</b></p></div></div>