Author Archives: iahponline

European Network for the right to health

FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH A year after Florence, the European Network for the right to health strongly emphasises again the need for the movement to consider health care as a social right, universal and not commercial. In Paris we have transformed a charter of intents, like the oneContinue reading “European Network for the right to health”

European Social Forum, Paris, 12-15 November 2003

The European Social Forum to be held in Paris from the 12 to 15 November 2003 has a full programme of debates, seminars and discussions including health and social policy. IAHP is participating actively. Julian Tudor Hart, several friends from FADSP and Alexis Benos are participating in the meetings. Join this important movement and followContinue reading “European Social Forum, Paris, 12-15 November 2003”

Red de genero y salud colectiva: Simposio Varadero 2003

Simposio Internacional Salud Reproductiva en las Edades Extremas de la Vida de la Mujer Centro de Convenciones “Plaza Amιrica”, Playa de Varadero, octubre 16 al 18 del 2003. Estimadas/os compaρeras/os de la Red. Les hago llegar esta informaciσn que puede ser de interes para muchas/os. El evento se realizara en una de las layas masContinue reading “Red de genero y salud colectiva: Simposio Varadero 2003”

The Alma Ata Anniversary Pack by PHM

This collection of statements, reflections and papers is released for use by People’s Health Movement members, friends and enthusiasts all over the world to initiate a celebration for the Alma Ata Declaration anniversary particularly around 6-12th September 2003. (These are the actual dates of the meeting in 1978 when the Alma Ata Declaration was passedContinue reading “The Alma Ata Anniversary Pack by PHM”

Argentina: torture, silence and medical teaching

BMJ 2003;326:1405 More than 30 years ago I asked my surgical instructor about petechial lesions on the scrotums of some criminals interned in the surgical ward. The shocking answer was, “Oh, yes, the police make them all go through ‘the machine’ before taking them to the hospital.” The machine, the “picana el?ctrica,” was a deviceContinue reading “Argentina: torture, silence and medical teaching”

In Place of Bevan? Foundation hospitals bill

Briefing on the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill 2003 Allyson Pollock and David Price Public Health Policy Unit, University College London Published in association with The Society for Social Medicine and the NHS Consultations Association A Catalyst Briefing Paper. Published: July 2003 “The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards)Continue reading “In Place of Bevan? Foundation hospitals bill”

Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination

D Banerji, New Delhi Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination CONSTRAINTS IN DEVELOPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The composition of the WHO sponsored the Macroeconomic Commission on Health (MCH) and the sheer range of their terms of reference had tempted me to undertake the rather forbidding task of writing a critique onContinue reading “Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination”

European Network for the Defense of Health

link to the European Health Forum Incontro della Rete Europea per la difesa della salute nel contro-vertice organizzato dal Forum sociale Greco a Tessalonica 18-19 giugno 2003 Secondo quanto concordato nella riunione costitutiva della Rete Europea per la difesa della Salute, fatta a Parigi il 22 e 23 marzo, i membri greci della Rete hannoContinue reading “European Network for the Defense of Health”

Health Care or Health Trade? A historic moment of choice, by J.T. Hart

Paper presented at European Network for the Defense of Public Health of the European Social Forum Anti-Summit Conference on Globalisation, Thessaloniki, 18 June 2003. Since the 1970s, advanced medical care throughout the world has been dragged through a painful but apparently necessary and inevitable metamorphosis. This can be summed up as transformation of medicine toContinue reading “Health Care or Health Trade? A historic moment of choice, by J.T. Hart”