Gavin Mooney
Gavin Mooney is based in Perth in Western Australia. He has worked as a health economist for 40 years and held academic positions in Scotland, Scandinavia, South Africa and Australia. In 2009 he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Cape Town as ‘one of the founding fathers of health economics’. He has published widely with over 20 books to his name. Gavin has also acted as a consultant to WHO and to the OECD. Equity is a key research focus. In recent years he has become particularly interested in the impact of poverty and inequality on health and in turn of neo liberalism on power structures in society and in healthcare systems. Much of this is reflected in his Challenging Health Economics for OUP in 2009. He is also an advocate for using community values through citizens’ juries in health care (see www.gavinmooney.com).
Books by Gavin Mooney
Health of Nations
Towards a New Political Economy
Gavin Mooney
Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health–both within and between countries–remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism. ’The Health of Nations’ analyses how power is exercised both in health-care systems and in society more… (more information)