This comprehensive source, "Mobilizing for health justice: Global Health Watch 7," presents a critical analysis of global health, advocating for health justice through various lenses. It explores the commercial and corporate determinants of health, detailing how neoliberal policies and transnational corporations prioritise profit over public well-being, influencing everything from healthcare privatisation and financialisation to pandemic preparedness and response. The text also addresses the intertwined issues of war, conflict, and displacement and their devastating health consequences, alongside the impact of digital technologies and AI on health systems, particularly highlighting biases and the rise of "digital colonialism." Furthermore, the book champions ancestral and ecofeminist perspectives as transformative alternatives to capitalist systems, emphasising the concept of Buen Vivir (living well) and the importance of social movements and advocacy in national and global struggles for the right to health, including specific case studies on gender-transformative health systems and abolition medicine. The overarching narrative critiques the current global political-economic paradigm and calls for systemic change towards a more equitable and sustainable world.
Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus and former Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. His early work focused on health promotion, community, community empowerment, and social determinants of health. For the past 30 years his research focused on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health, published over 380 scientific papers, and is active with the People's Health Movement (PHM). A frequent contributor to its flagship publication Global Health Watch, he is co-editor of its 6th and 7th editions, and a member of the PHM global Steering Council.
Chiara Bodini is a founding member of the Centre for International and Intercultural Health (CSI) of the University of Bologna. Her work focuses on the social determination of health inequalities, community participation in health promotion and primary health care. She is a long standing activist of the People's Health Movement and co-editor of Global Health Watch 6 and 7
