Health, trade and human rights. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Théodore H. MacDonald ; forewords by Mogobe Ramose and Desmond M. Tutu..
• Other Names: MacDonald, Theodore H (Theodore Harney), 1933-
• Contents: What are the problems? The link with imperialism. Whose WHO? Health planning for international trade. The 'brain drain' from third to first world. The health-wealth relationship. The health-wealth problem. Trips - WHO and trips. Global variations in health. Within poor community relations. First world finance - bad for Third World health. Brief conspectus of development. Effect of neoliberalism on primary healthcare. Origins of present trading system. Structural adjustment. Sequence of events behind the debt crisis. Debt, environment and health. Upholding the banks. The need to establish an economic basis for human rights. First the goods, then the people. Impact of emigration on society's health. The environment - our ultimate arbitrator. Environmental unsustainability. Environmental cost of air transport. Can carbon emissions be traded? Water, water everywhere - but not to drink. Growing first world control over water. How about a game of golf? What about climatic change? Consequences of lack of global control. Financial consequences. Big tidal waves and tsunamis. Mothers, milk and money. Powdered milk: a threat to third world babies. Support for third world services. Market forces, saps and private enterprise. Status of breastfeeding in the third world. Breastfeeding as health promotion. Third World economics and breastfeeding. The global decline in breastfeeding. Professional opposition to breastfeeding. Impact on the third world. The World Health Organisation's response. Breastfeeding vs. market forces. Breastfeeding worldwide. Nestlé and its impact on the Third World. Nestlé's use of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Other questionable practices revealed by IBFAN. The Third World face of HIV/AIDS. Capitalism: scourge of the Third World. Africa's relationship with HIV/AIDS. Some non-African Third World settings. Africa revisited. The Zimbabwe situation. Disempowerment of women with respect to HIV/AIDS. Why women are especially vulnerable. Local culture and HIV prevention. Male condoms: cultural consequences. Are female condoms the answer? Sexually transmitted disease as an acceptable risk. Impact of lack of basic education. A diluted WHO target on HIV/AIDS. What is to be done? What are the solutions? What's new? Approaches to environmental sustainabilty. Uses of biomass. How flexible is hydrogen power? Other renewable sources of energy. Ubuntu - one idea of community organisation. The people's health movement. The importance of the US contribution. Community health impact assessment. International association for impact assessment and HUIA. Political alternatives. Transnational mediation of equity. Is capitalism actually an option? The optimistic view as a solution. Pre-political greening. Can green political power survive bureaucracy?
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (136 pages)
• Subjects: 341.48; World health -- Economic aspects; Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Economic aspects; Free trade -- Health aspects; Human rights -- Health aspects; Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Developing countries -- Environmental conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315347486; 1315347482
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