Maria Urbaneja: Un mensaje sobre Sergio Aruca

Amigos y amigas de la Salud Colectiva de América Latina, amigos y amigas de ALAMES Se nos fue Sergio amigo, compañero de sueños y de luchas por la defensa de la Salud como Derecho y como Bien Publico. Conocí a Sergio en aquella reunión de Ariccia, Roma en 1979 y desde ahí se tejió unaContinue reading “Maria Urbaneja: Un mensaje sobre Sergio Aruca”

Health Policy Reform: Driving the wrong way?, by John Lister

Health Policy Reform: Driving the wrong way? – A critical guide to the global ‘health reform’ industry author: John Lister Published July 5 2005 ISBN 1 904750 45 1 £25pb “This is an excellent book for students and policy makers and provides a useful overview of health care restructuring across the world. I recommend it.”Continue reading “Health Policy Reform: Driving the wrong way?, by John Lister”

Scientists against the new EU rules comercialising clinical trials research

Scientists beg EU to repeal new rules for clinical trials Brussels Rory Watson Thousands of academics and scientists across Europe are appealing to the European Union to repeal new legislation that they fear could seriously damage the prospects of non-commercial, academically led, patient focused clinical research. Opponents of the new rules, which are due toContinue reading “Scientists against the new EU rules comercialising clinical trials research”

Australian Health Inequities Program

Our agenda is ambitious – working across two Universities in different states and establishing an agenda on social determinants of health in a world where the health imagination is still firmly wedded to medical and behavioural solutions. We have made some steps towards this agenda through commencing a number of new research projects that areContinue reading “Australian Health Inequities Program”

Public Health disaster in Gaza strip

PMRS Urgent Appeal for Support to Avert Public Health Disaster in the Gaza Strip Gaza City, 28-06-06: Gaza has once again become the target of Israeli military invasions and the subject of methods of collective punishment, further exacerbating an existing, severe humanitarian situation in the Strip, and in Palestine as whole. Escalating levels of violence;Continue reading “Public Health disaster in Gaza strip”

XIV Congress of the International Association of Health Policy (IAHP) & the Latin-American Congress of Social Medicine (ALAMES) – Salvador, Brazil, 15 to 18 July 2007

HEALTH, ETHICS Y EQUITY: A CALL FOR POLICIES AND ACTION EQUIDAD Y DERECHO A LA SALUD: UN IMPERATIVO ÉTICO GLOBAL Salvador – Brazil 15 to 18 July, 2007

Saluco 8: Hormone Replacement Therapy in question – Tratamientos Hormonales de Reemplazo

SaluCo (De utilizar la informaci?n citar la fuente) Boletin 8 Tratamientos Hormonales de Reemplazo, Hormone Replacement Therapy Segunda Quincena Julio 2002 Nota editorial: Saluco, en esta oportunidad sale en los d?as en que nuestro pueblo se apresta a celebrar el 26 de Julio, sirva entonces para sumarnos a dicho homenaje, saludar a los/las colegas deContinue reading “Saluco 8: Hormone Replacement Therapy in question – Tratamientos Hormonales de Reemplazo”

Primary Health Care: an overview by D. Banerjee

Guest Lecture for National Seminar on Health For All in the New Millenium, NIHFW, February 24-26, 2003 (Professor Emeritus, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University) A WATERSHED IN PUBLIC HEALTH The concept of Primary Health Care (PHC), which was approved by the World Health Assembly in 1977 and endorsed at theContinue reading “Primary Health Care: an overview by D. Banerjee”

Transdisciplinary cardiology

El Grupo de Estudio en Cardiología Transdisciplinaria convoca a personas interesadas en el área de las enfermedades cardiovasculares. Se trata en su primera fase de vincular profesionales con intereses comunes. A partir de allí se propone establecer una agenda de actividades formativas, de investigación y comunitarias. Motiva esta propuesta el reconocimiento de la necesidad deContinue reading “Transdisciplinary cardiology”

A new book by Julian Tudor Hart

The political economy of healthcare: A clinical perspective by Dr. Julian Tudor Hart This new book, just published by Policy Press is written by our friend, longstanding leader of our strugles for another possible world, active member of IHAP Julian Tudor Hart. The book offers a passionate analysis of the historical development, current and potentialContinue reading “A new book by Julian Tudor Hart”