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Contributions from
the Column
Monitor
UN Summit: saving what could be saved
UN summit press review
Commodity exporters enjoy high demand
UNCTAD: Happy times for commodity exporters
Taxing air travel to fund development
Japan to increase aid
Roads and development
Alternative health report for WHO reform
Women have higher crop yields
World Bank: inequality blocks development
10/2005
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Alternative health
report for WHO reform
A group of international non-governmental organisations, scientists, doctors and other actors from the health sector have declared themselves in favour of a fundamental reform of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The study, “Global Health Watch 2005-2006” calls for an increase of the WHO’s financial resources and for better coordination with other international health organisations. Furthermore, the WHO should stick to its mandate of being more active as a policy adviser to governments. WHO personnel should not only be recruited from the health sector, but should also include economists, political scientists and lawyers in order to better focus on the linkages between health and social, economic and political affairs. The report calls for all international economic agreements, for example within the framework of the World Trade Organisation, to be checked for possible health implications. In terms of international development aid in the field of health services, the report bemoans that there is too much focus on particular diseases rather than on improving the health system as a whole. (ell)
http://www.medico-international.de/material/downloads/ghw.pdf
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