Third World Health Aid – Médecine pour le Tiers Monde (M3M) - affiliated network of PHM presents:
Empowerment. Look it up on the internet and you will find a wide variety of definitions. Some people associate it with self-confidence or autonomy, others with participation or mobilisation, and still others with liberation.
The Lancet—University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health' has been released.
This report examines power disparities and dynamics across a range of policy areas that aff ect health and that require improved global governance: economic crises and austerity measures, knowledge and intellectual property, foreign investment treaties, food security,transnational corporate activity, irregular migration, and violent conflict.
Here at IoM, the Institute of Medicine, Nepal, Prof. Dr. Govinda KC began his fast-unto-death against political appointment of the dean. The Tribhuvan University Executive Council appointed Dr.Sashi Sharma dean of IoM only a month after Dr. Prakash Sayami had resigned amid unrelenting pressure regarding granting affiliations to new medical colleges. Dr. KC has demanded that the government stop affiliating new medical colleges, end political interference in IoM and take action against the present concerned office bearers of the university.
The South African national newspaper has published a report on accessing health care during the farmworkers strike submitted by volunteers of PHM South Africa together with Women on Farms Project and several farm workers! The Department of Health will be publishing a response in next weeks edition of the newspaper.
Topic 8 of the International People's Health University - Online is: The People's Health Movement. The learning objectives of this topic include familiarising ourselves with the PHM globally and learning about PHM in our respective countries locally.
This webinar is a great introduction to the People's Health Movement. It explains the core of the People's Charter for Health and provides background to the many struggles PHM is involved with globally and locally.
Chiara from PHM Italy, is part of the Italian Observatory on Global Health. They published following article on UHC:
Universal Health Coverage is likely to become the backbone on which the health development agenda beyond 2015 will be constructed. To avoid unintended effects, Universal Health Coverage should keep away from committing seven sins and should try to practice seven virtues.
On April 24th PHM some PHM people attended an event on "Health R&D as a Global Public Good" co-organized by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the Harvard Global Health Institute. The purpose of the event was to examine how to secure collective action to provide global public goods through research and development (R&D) and innovation for the specific health needs of low‐ and middle‐income countries.
This is the true story about the lucrative dead body parts business in western world.BBC Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts and uncovers the growing industry and grisly black market that supplies human bodies for a price.
The draft health chapter of the 12the Five Year Plan document is being discussed for final adoption by the Planning Commission by the end of August, 2012. The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (Peoples Health Movement – India) expresses concern regarding the present recommendations and plans outlined in the draft chapter.
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Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (Peoples Health Movement – India)
Our gathering We, as signatories of this statement, express our protest at the current economic, social & political world order. We stand in solidarity with a global assembly of the People’s Health Movement in Cape Town and share their energy & vision for a better future. We convey our outrage at the remaining inequalities both within and between countries despite previous commitments at the global, national and local levels. We express our support for the People’s Charter for Health and reinforce health as a fundamental human right.
Climate change is the largest threat to global health in history. Health systems, on the other hand, exist to promote, protect and improve people’s health, and to prevent and treat disease. As large, resource and energy-intensive organizations that employ many people, health systems produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. Therefore, they contribute to climate change, raising the paradox that, on balance, they may, inadvertently, do people’s health more harm than good in the long term.
The advent of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme opens up a political space to campaign for a health service that will best address South Africa’s health crisis and reduce the extreme inequities between poor and rich, rural and urban, and public sector and private health service users.
