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Embargoed until 00.01 hours 6 June, 2013

New book dissects global health reforms“As a journalist by trade I always want to get the most up to date, accurate
and readable account across, to make people aware of the policies that are
being promoted in our name by politicians at home and abroad.
“I have always wanted to see a serious, critical analysis of health policy
reform, to give an overview of what is happening and put specific issues incontext.
“This is my best shot at doing just that.”
So says John Lister, one of the leading advocates of equity-oriented, rights-based approaches to the designand operation of health systems, in both rich and poor countries alike.
John Lister’s book ‘Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way’, published in 2005, was hailed as ‘thedefinitive critique of market-oriented health care ‘reforms’ that the World Bank has been promoting at least since1993’. Now Libri Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of his completely revised and restructured
analysis of health policy, ‘Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit’. In this, John Lister brings
his critique of health policy up-to-date. He continues to question whether the major 'reforms' which have been,
and are still being, introduced are driven primarily by the health needs of the wider population or, in fact, by nonhealth considerations - the financial and political concerns of governments and global institutions.
John Lister’s writings fill a gap in the literature covering the recent history of healthcare provision and are uniquein their global scope. In Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit’ Lister presents the key issues
facing health professionals today. He produces a consistent and coherent critical analysis of different situations
in different countries, making his approach wholly unlike those of previous, less comprehensive studies. Withextensive evidence and over 60 pages of references, the book is essential reading for clinicians andadministrators alike, as well as for all students of health policy and management.
Colin Leys, emeritus professor of political studies Queen’s University, Canada, and joint author The Plot Against
the NHS says of ‘Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit’“Lister’s knowledge of the literature, lucid reasoning and clean prose are a class act. This is a majorachievement which everyone interested in health needs to read.”
Martin McKee CBE, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
says:“John Lister takes on the narrative being peddled by the new global elite and their cheerleaders who aremounting a sustained attack on what remains of the welfare state, with health care as one of their prime
targets. Lister shows that there is an alternative, but it is up to us to seize it.”John Lister will be speaking about Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit at the booklaunch at the National Union of Journalists HQ, Headlands House, 308 Gray’s Inn Road
London on Thursday 6 June from 1800 – 2030. To attend please contact Pat Graham atPat.Graham@libripublishing.co.uk or telephone 07540125926.

Further information
Publication date: 6 June 2013
If you would like a review copy of Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit
please contact Pat Graham at Pat.Graham@libripublishing.co.uk or telephone 07540125926.
For more information, or to arrange to interview John Lister, please contact Pat Graham atPat.Graham@libripublishing.co.uk
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Notes for Editors
Other endorsements received for Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus Private Profit
The political economy of health care remains largely camouflaged in 'zombie' ideas with deep roots in aneoliberal orthodoxy. …. John Lister’s book makes an important contribution to informed health policy debatesand should be essential reading for progressive health reformers worldwide.
Ronald Labonté, Canada Research Chair, Globalization/Health Equity, Professor, Faculty ofMedicine Institute of Population Health, Ottawa
Now is a critical time for public health care and health systems across the world …. John Lister’s book gives us
valuable insights into the forces that are arrayed against universal health care, and how capitalism is consuming
our basic rights and entitlements. It's up to us to organise to take them back.
Allyson Pollock, Professor of public health research and policy at Queen Mary, University ofLondon
John Lister’s book is a must-read for anyone passionate about universal health care to understand its greatest
obstacle and where we must focus our fight.
Anna Marriott, Health Policy Advisor, Oxfam GB
John Lister has written a really important book which is as ambitious, as all encompassing, and as undoctrinaire
as to qualify as a sort of Doyal 'Political Economy of Health' for the 21st Century.
John S Yudkin MD FRCP, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and former Director, International
Health and Medical Education Centre, University College London
John Lister's excellent book …. is essential reading for all students and practitioners of health and social care
who want to understand the context within which they are now being condemned to work, and start changing it.
Julian Tudor Hart, author of The Political Economy of Health Care: a clinical perspective
John Lister’s book is an encyclopaedic, thoroughly referenced update of his 2005 work. It is gives us an elegant
and comprehensive, crucial update on many issues as we begin to discuss what next after the Millennium
Development Goals.”Claudio Schuftan, People’s Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City