Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Giorgio Solimano Cantuarias, Oscar Arteaga Herrera The Chilean health system underwent drastic neoliberal reform in the 980s, with the creation of a dual system: public and private health insurance and public and private provision of health services. • This reform served as a model for later World Bank–inspired reforms inContinue reading “Chile’s Neoliberal Health Reform: An Assessment and a Critique”
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Medical Education for the 21st Century – Teaching for Health Equity, 30 November to 3 December 2008, Havana, Cuba
IAHP and ALAMES join in organizing the Medical Education for the 21st Century: Teaching for Health Equity. This conference, will bring together health professionals and researchers in the fields of medical and health sciences education; public health; and basic, clinical and social sciences to exchange the latest thinking and construct new paradigms in medical andContinue reading “Medical Education for the 21st Century – Teaching for Health Equity, 30 November to 3 December 2008, Havana, Cuba”
FADSP is denouncing Madrid’s Regional Governement that abolishes Public Health Structures
IAHP executive expressed its solidarity to our friends of the Federación de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Sanidad Pública http://www.fadsp.org “La IAHP (International Association of Health Policy) adhiere y se solidariza con la denuncia de la desaparición de la Dirección General de Salud Pública de Madrid, sustanciada por decreto el pasado 3 de abril. Esta medidaContinue reading “FADSP is denouncing Madrid’s Regional Governement that abolishes Public Health Structures”
Health Policy In Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges, a new book by IAHPE
IAHPE new book This book is an effort to describe and critically analyse the recent experience of various European countries and discuss the dilemmas and challenges that confront health policy and policy-makers in this period of time and geopolitical setting, providing concrete evidence from various countries. Specific chapters address issues in Germany, Sweden, the UnitedContinue reading “Health Policy In Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges, a new book by IAHPE”
Challenging health inequalities, a new book edited by Elizabeth Dowler and Nick J. Spencer
This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges. The book presents an overview of progress since the publication of the seminal and ambitious 1998 Acheson Inquiry into health inequalities, and the theoretical and methodologicalContinue reading “Challenging health inequalities, a new book edited by Elizabeth Dowler and Nick J. Spencer”
ALAMES: Declaracion de Salvador de Bahia
Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (ALAMES) Catalina Eibenschutz Leticia Artiles Visbal Coordinación General DECLARACIÓN DE SALVADOR DE BAHÍA En la ciudad de Salvador de Bahía, a los 18 días del mes de julio del año 2007, en ocasión de celebrarse los congresos IV Brasileño de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas en Salud, XIV de IAHP yContinue reading “ALAMES: Declaracion de Salvador de Bahia”
A note for the IAHP’s History, by Vinçen Navarro
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the International Association of Health Policy: It gives me enormous pleasure to see that the International Association of Health Policy (IAHP) has now completed its XIV Conference in Salvador de Bolivia, Brazil. When many, many years ago, a few of us got together in Amsterdam at the European Center ofContinue reading “A note for the IAHP’s History, by Vinçen Navarro”
The Political and Social Contexts of Health, by Vicente Navarro
This analysis of the political and social forces that shape the well-being and quality of life of populations in developed capitalist countries is written by scholars based in several different countries. The book shows how the varying political traditions in the developed world—social democratic, Christian democratic, conservative, and liberal traditions—have affected populations’ health and qualityContinue reading “The Political and Social Contexts of Health, by Vicente Navarro”
Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health & Well-Being:Controversies & Developments, by V. Navarro & C. Muntaner
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro’s edited collection of The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the area of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics and healthContinue reading “Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health & Well-Being:Controversies & Developments, by V. Navarro & C. Muntaner”
Universal Health Care Systems (UHCS) on the Periphery of Capitalism, by H.U. Deppe
Hans-Ulrich Deppe, MD Professor for Medical Sociology and Social Medicine J.W. Goethe-University of Frankfurt/ Germany Ulrich.Deppe@em.uni-frankfurt.de X Congreso Latinoamerikano de Medicina Social, IV Congresso Brasileiro de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas em Saude, XI Congress of the International Assotiarion of Health Policy , Equidade, Etica e Direito a Saude: Desafios a Saude Coletiva na Mundializacao vomContinue reading “Universal Health Care Systems (UHCS) on the Periphery of Capitalism, by H.U. Deppe”
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