Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities
Subtitle: consequences for health and quality of life
By: edited by Vicente Navarro.
Contributors: Navarro, Vicente.
Series: Policy, politics, health, and medicine series; Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Baywood Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amityville, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780895033383; 9780895033444
Subjects: Neoliberalism -- Health aspects.; Globalization -- Health aspects.; Equality -- Health aspects.; Health services accessibility.; Public health -- Economic aspects.; Public health -- Political aspects.; Quality of life.; Welfare state.; World health.; Health Services Accessibility.; Health Policy.; Politics.; Socioeconomic Factors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Neoliberalism as a class ideology; or, the political causes of the growth of inequalities / Vicente Navarro; Is globalization undermining the welfare state? The evolution of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries during the 1990s / Vicente Navarro, John Schmitt, and Javier Astudillo; The future of the welfare state: crisis myths and crisis realities / Francis G. Castles; Should we worry about inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade; The causes of increasing world poverty and inequality; or, why the Matthew effect prevails / Robert Hunter Wade; Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade; The scorecard on development: 25 years of diminished progress / Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick; The world health situation / Vicente Navarro; Economic efficiency versus social equality? The U.S. liberal model versus the European social model / Vicente Navarro and John Schmitt; Is the United States a good model for reducing social exclusion in Europe? / John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer; Labor markets and economic inequality in the United States since the end of the 1970s / John Schmitt; The politics of health inequalities research in the United States / Vicente Navarro; An alternative to the neoliberal model in health: the case of Venezuela / Oscar Feo and Carlos Eduardo Siqueira; Venezuela's Barrio Adentro: an alternative to neoliberalism in health care / Carles Muntaner ... [et al.]; The dispossession of African wealth at the cost of Africa's health / Patrick Bond; Uneven health outcomes and political resistance under residual neoliberalism in Africa / Patrick Bond and George Dor; The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: a "disastrous" record / Demba Moussa Dembele; The Sachs report: investing in health for economic development? Or increasing the size of the crumbs from the rich man's table? / Alison Katz; Report of the WHO commission on macroeconomics and health: a critique / Debabar Banerji; Assessment of the World health report 2000 / Vicente Navarro; Serious crisis in the practice of international health by the World Health Organization: the commission on social determinants of health / Debabar Banerji; A critique of Jeffrey D. Sachs's The end of poverty / Doug Henwood.