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”

Centre for International Public Health Policy

The Centre for International Public Health Policy has been newly established in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. It offers MSc programmes in global health policy, and carries out research into international health, public health policy, and the use of private finance in public services, including the use ofContinue reading “Centre for International Public Health Policy”

PHM letter to Lancet on arm trade activities of Reed Elsevier

2 years ago your Editorial staff and International Advisory Board took the courageous and correct step to criticise the practices of your parent company, Reed Elsevier, in the hosting of arms trade fairs.(1) The arms trade industry as it stands has little good to say for itself. It encourages transgressions of the various Geneva ConventionsContinue reading “PHM letter to Lancet on arm trade activities of Reed Elsevier”

Medico International looking for a coordinator in Ramallah

medico international e.V. a Frankfurt-based German Non-Governmental Organization, provides emergency relief and supports human rights and development projects to secure access to health care for those in need. For the implementation of the envisaged ECHO-funded project “meeting the health needs of communities in the Ramallah district by sustaining and improving the health care services” inContinue reading “Medico International looking for a coordinator in Ramallah”