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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
Global Health Promotion as Distorted by Trading Relations 1
A Nest of problems
Bases of Eurocentric attitudes
Limited applicability of Eurocentric models 4
What is the third world?
Health In the Third World 7
The IMF and the World Bank 8
Origins of the IMF and the World Bank 10
Structural adjustment
Sequence of events behind the debt crisis *3
Some consequences of the debt crisis 16
Jubilee 2000: A Christian Aid initiative 17
19
References
Chapter Two
Negative Impacts on First World Communities of Third World
Debt
Economies, society, health promotion and equity 21
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Environment is international 23
Table 2.1. Between Third World Debt and Third World
Relationship Rates of Deforestation 27
Are the drug trade and debt linked? 28
How can the First World protect itself? 31
Upholding the banks 32
Table 2.2. Bank Loans To and Returns From LDC Debtors 34
Lowering standards in the First World 35
A simple explanation of compound interest 36
First the goods, then the people 41
Impact of emigration on a society s health 42
Impact of immigration on First World social health 44
Table 2.3. Rank of Countries Sending Immigrants to USA as
at 1988: Range of Number Sent 1983 8 ( 000s, rounded) 46
Wars, health promotion, and the debt 47
Table 2.4. Debtors at War 48
References 51
Chapter Three 53
Structural Adjustment and its effects on Third World Health 53
How Structural Economic Adjustment impacts upon health in
the Third World 55
Particular impact on women and children s health 58
The influence of market economics on primary health care in
Nepal 61
Factors affecting primary health care 62
Product advertising 63
Pharmaceuticals 64
High technology medicine 64
Physician workforce, practice, and ethics 66
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Conclusion 67
References 68
Chapter Four 71
The Conflict Between Global Health and Global Finance: A
Case Study Approach 71
Addressing health inequalities 71
Reinforcing global inequalities 73
Case study 1: Uganda 75
Case study 2: privatising pharmaceutical provision in India 77
Privatisation, trade and the global market 80
The impact of global finance on global health 81
Possible solutions 83
Cancellation of World Debt 84
Accountability and Sovereignty 85
Collective versus Individual 86
Enforceable social charters and lobbying for change 87
Conclusion 88
References 89
Chapter Five 91
Environmental Costs of the Global Market 91
Introduction 91
The global economy 92
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund 94
Impact of SAPs on the environment 96
Currency values and the environment 98
The World Bank s environmental legacy 99
Impact on health 101
Health as the last domino 102
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Global effects 104
Implications for health promotion 106
References 108
Chapter Six 111
Milk and Imperialism 111
Links between global health and western wealth 111
Support for third world health services 112
Market forces, SAPs, and private enterprise 113
Status of breast feeding in the third world 114
Breastfeeding as part of the health promotion agenda 115
Third world economics and breast feeding 116
Addressing the global decline in breast feeding rates 117
Professional opposition to breast feeding 119
Impact on the third world 120
Table 6.1. Breast feeding Rates In Developing Countries 121
The World Health Organisation s response 122
Breast feeding versus market forces 123
The Breast feeding issue worldwide 125
References 128
Bibliography 130
Chapter Seven jjj
The Impact of First World Wealth on Third World Health: British
American Tobacco in China 13 j
Introduction j 3 2
How access to China benefits BAT 133
Penetrating the Chinese market 135
First world finance bodies in the Chinese tobacco trade 137
The Asian Monetary Fund j 33
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Targeting Chinese health with Western advertising 141
BAT s denial of the health risks versus the statistical evidence 143
China s own health promotion initiatives 145
Conclusions and recommendations 148
References 149
Chapter Eight 155
An African Health Promotion Remit—HIV/AIDS 155
Contextualisation 155
The situation in Zimbabwe 156
Health promotion, empowerment, and African Women 157
HIV/AIDS in the African context 158
Why women are especially vulnerable 160
Local culture and HIV prevention 161
Male condoms: culture and consequences 162
Are female condoms the answer? 164
Sexually Transmitted Diseases as an acceptable risk 165
Impact of lack of basic education 166
Empowering function of local advocacy groups 168
Entrenching poverty—an SAP bequest 169
Conclusion 171
References 172
Bibliography 175
Chapter Nine 177
Western Democratic Values Will Save You! 177
Introduction 177
Sen s basic theory 177
Looking at China more closely 178
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The problems of Chinese literacy 179
What about India? 181
Critiques of Sen s model 182
Conditions within Africa 185
Colonialism and nationhood 185
Is the Sen argument invalid? 187
Famine in India 188
Entitlement theory 189
Famine in Africa 190
Why African anti famine strategies failed 191
The role of humanitarianism 192
References 195
Chapter Ten 199
Peru—A Detailed Case Study of one Third World Country 199
Introduction 199
Movement into debt 200
The economic and political context 202
Peru under Fujimori (1990 2000) 204
Table 10.1. The Impact of the August 1990 Shock Treatment
on Consumer Price 205
Table 10.2. The Impact of the August 1990 Shock Treatment
on Consumer Prices, Lima Metropolitan Area, August 1990 206
Table 10.3. Index of Real Wages (1974 1991) 207
Fujimori s conservatism 208
Health in Peru under adj ustment 210
Circumventing impacts on health of SAPs 214
Conclusion 217
References 220
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Bibliography 222
Chapter Eleven 227
Cuba—Model or Maverick? 227
Introduction 227
People centred government 228
Cuba as virus 230
The long blockade 231
Can Cuban public health survive the blockade? 235
Health promotion and social attitudes 236
Differences in the Cuban context 238
The vulnerability of Cuban health promotion 240
Potential of the Cuban experience 243
HIVVAIDS in Zimbabwe 245
Cuban Doctors in post Apartheid South Africa 247
References 250
Chapter Twelve 253
Pivotal Strategies for Creating a Favourable Context for Global
Health Promotion 253
A Conspectus of possible strategies 253
Unsustainability 255
Figure 12.1. Regional Contributions to Global Atmospheric
Increases in Carbon Dioxide, 1980 1988 256
The problems of comparative measures 257
Figure 12.2. Cumulative Share of World Income by
Percentage of Global Population 258
Specifics of food supply and health 258
Varying health promotion parameters 259
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Table 12.1. Social marginalisation: poverty in subgroups
(families with children, 1980s) 260
Table 12.2. Exit times from poverty status in rural households
in Indian (two states compared) 261
Is capitalism actually an option? 261
The optimistic view as a solution 264
The Marxist view 266
The phenomenon of alienation 268
Disalienation and democracy 269
Pre political Greening 272
Can Green political power survive bureaucracy? 273
References 275
Appendix A 277
The Compound Interest Formula Explained 277
AppendixB 280
Protecting Breastfeeding from Unethical Marketing 280
Appendix C 281
Nutrition League Table 281
AppenddcD 283
Peru Letter of Intent, May 5, 1998 283
AppendixE 289
A New Framework and Guidelines enshrining a Fundamental
Humanitarian Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health 289
Index 313
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