Heywood on Politics and Health

Chapter Three: South Africa´s Treatment Action Campaign (TAC): An example of a successful human rights campaign for health

Mark Heywood — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:19:34 +0200

Heywood on Politics and Health

Chapter Two: Health and the Inequality of Poverty: Towards a Right-based Convention on Global Health

Mark Heywood — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:19:34 +0200

Introduction:

This article continues the argument that there is a political reason for deteriorating public health. However, whilst declining health can be partly attributed to political neglect it is not its direct cause. Rather, it is the growth of socio-economic inequalities that are coming about as a result of changed patterns of production and economic growth, combined with human insecurity, that is putting millions of people at risk of ill health and disease. Heywood on Politics and Health read more

Chapter One: Politics and the Global Public Health Crisis

Mark Heywood — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:15:56 +0200

“If you can have full employment by killing Germans, why can’t you have it by building hospitals?”

– Tony Benn, Labour Party MP, UK, referring to the move to set up a National Health Service in Britain after the end of World War II¹

Despite remarkable advances in modern medicine the health of millions of people throughout the world is declining.² Problems of malnutriti

Heywood on Politics and Health

Introduction: Politics, Human Rights and Poor Global Health

Mark Heywood — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:12:34 +0200

Can Campaigns to Prevent and Treat HIV and AIDS Revive and Strengthen Campaigns for the Right to Health, Access to Legal Services and Social Justice?

Introduction^{Heywood on Politics and Health}