Introductions:

• Introduction to EG4Health campaign (5 mins) and accompanying handout (Sept 2009).
• Introduction to EG4Health issues (30 mins) and accompanying poster (Dec 2009).

What’s wrong with the wealth system: Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and its discontents. 2002. Chapter 1.

What’s wrong with the health system: WHO: Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2008); ILO: The social dimensions of globalisation (2004).

How do wealth systems influence health:

• The International Monetary Fund’s effects on global health: before and after the 2008 financial crisis.
• Reviving the International Monetary Fund: Concerns for the Health of the Poor.
• The International Monetary Fund and tobacco: A product like any other?
• Scaling up global social health protection: Prerequisite reforms to the International Monetary Fund.
• Flowchart summarizing how economic governance influences health.

What we want: Global Health Watch pp 14-48.

Relavant video news.

Some films to pass the time: The Fever, Sicko, Zeitgeist Addendum, The Constant Gardener.