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Globalisation and the Impact on Health - A Third World View - Issue Papers

Globalisation and the Impact on Health - A Third World View 

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Evelyne Hong

August 2000 
Third World Network, 228, Macalister Road, 10400 Penang

 

prepared for 

The Peoples’ Health Assembly

December 4-8, 2000

Savar, Bangladesh

 

Contents

 

• Introduction
   
• The Colonial Enterprise
   
• Integration into the Market
   
• Post-Colonial Development Strategy
   
• Free Market Reform
   
• Free Market Rules
   
• The Role of the World Bank in Global Economic Reform
   
• Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)
   
• Impact of SAPs in Third World
   
  • Increased Poverty
  • Corruption
  • Social Dislocation and Unrest
  • Social Conditions Worsen
  • SAPs Reform in Peru
  • Famine in Somalia
  • Economic Reform in Vietnam
    • Health System Collapse
        
• The Global Assault on Health
   
  • WHO under Attack
  • The Alma Ata Declaration
  • Undermining Primary Health Care
    • UNICEF’s Role in SPHC
    • The Indian Experience with SPHC
    • SPHC in Africa
    • UNICEF and User Fees
         

    

• The Role of the World Bank
   
  • Privatisation and Profits
    
     
• The World Trade Organisation (WTO)
   
  • The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)
  • Health Implications
     
• The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)
   
• The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
   
• The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS)
   
  • Negative Impact
  • Privatising Knowledge
  • Trade Marks
  • Price Increase on Medicines
  • Lack of Access to Essential Medicines
  • US Bullies Thailand
  • US Threatens South Africa
  • US Unilateral Action against Argentina
  • BioPiracy
  • Health Threats from Biotechnology
     

• The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
   
  • Selling Health
  • Prise Open Markets
  • The ‘Agreement’ on Government Procurement
  • The ‘Agreement’ on Competition Policy
  • The ‘Agreement’ on Investment
  • Corporations Shape Health
     
• The Agreement on Agriculture
    
• The Globalisation of Culture
    
• The Culture of Violence
    
• The US-UN Sanctions on Iraq
   
  • Infant and Child Deaths
  • Malnutrition
  • Cancer Epidemic
  • Emerging Diseases
  • Health System Collapse
      

    

• The Asian Financial Crisis
   
• Socio Economic Causes of Ill Health
   
  • Threat to Life Support Systems
  • Debt-Induced Disasters
  • Diseases Out of Control
  • Global Microbial Traffic
  • Altered Ecosystems
  • Climate Change
    • Global Warming Spreads Diseases
       
• Conclusion
   
  • Global Level Initiatives
    • Reform of the WTO
    • Debt Cancellation
    • Democratisation of the UN
    • Stengthening the Role of WHO
  • National Level Initiatives
    • Role of Government
    • Local Level Initiatives
        
• References