1. Introductions:

• Short, 5-minute Introduction to EG4Health campaign (5 mins).
• Longer Introduction to EG4Health campaign (15 mins) and introductory flyer.
• Detail on EG4Health? (30 mins) and accompanying handout.

1.2 Supporting Graphs and Diagrams:

• How does the global economy damage global health?      (old version, and some old campaigns, and detail on economic mechanisms).
• A selection of illustrations on economic and health inequalities.

2. On why the global economy is failing to develop low and middle income countries:

• Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and its discontents. 2002. Chapter 1.

3. On why health is so poor in many developing countries:

• WHO: Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
  
• WHO: Action on the Social Determinants of Health pp 14-17. (2008)
• ILO: The social dimensions of globalisation (2004)

4. Detailed articles on how the global economy influences health:

On INEQUALITY and health - Detailed explanation of how wealth inequality influences health (pp 23-40), and strong, evidence-based summaries across a range of health areas from The Equality Trust.

On TRADE and health - The Lancet series on Trade and Health.

On PRIVATISATION and health – Why mass privatization is bad for health.

On our Moral mandate – why we have the right to improve the social determinants of health.

On the IMF in particular:

• The IMF’s effect on T.B. (also on the BBC)
• The IMF’s effect on tobacco: A product like any other?
• The IMF’s effect on global health, after the 2008 financial crisis: paper 1, paper 2
• Reviving the International Monetary Fund: Concerns for the Health of the Poor.
• Scaling up global social health protection: Prerequisite reforms to the International Monetary Fund.

5. A positive vision of the future:

• Global Health Watch (pp 14-48).
• Global health Watch 3

6. EG4Health past activities:

Raising awareness in the media:

• The Lancet
• Medact

Influencing policy:

• Policy statement by the International Federation of Medical Student Associations.
• Our response to the EU’s consultation on global health, the initial response, and the EU’s final policy on global health
• Our response to the UN World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, and some reactions.
• Letters by  the EU DG for Trade, about their bilateral trade negotiations with India concerning patent rules.
• Our letters to G20 finance ministers, and the final communique from Cannes, 2011.

7. Miscellaneous

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

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