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Urgent alert from Palestine Medical Relief, 14 June2003

Palestine Medical Relief and Palestine Monitor URGENT ALERT Stop Attacks on the Village of Deir Ghassaneh Friday 13th June, 2003 Palestine Medical Relief and Palestine Monitor have just received an urgent call for help from the villagers of Deir Ghassaneh, near Ramallah in the West Bank. At 3am this morning, the Israeli occupying army surroundedContinue reading “Urgent alert from Palestine Medical Relief, 14 June2003”

Saluco: Red Cubana de Género y Salud Colectiva

Salud Reproductiva y edades extremas. Boletín No. 2 Año 2 Junio 2003. Boletín de la Red Cubana de Género y Salud Colectiva Ateneo Juan César García, Sociedad Cubana de Salud Pública Capítulo Cubano de la Red de Género y Salud Colectiva de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (ALAMES) Coordinadora: Leticia Artiles Vicecoordinadoras: Ada AlfonsoContinue reading “Saluco: Red Cubana de Género y Salud Colectiva”

Populations are people: choices for rural health care, by J.T. Hart

Populations are people: choices for rural health care Julian Tudor Hart Santiago, 2003 According to conventional wisdom, in a free public service available to everyone, finite resources face infinite demands. Needs of individuals therefore conflict with needs of communities and nations. For public services to survive, we’re told that doctors must harden their hearts andContinue reading “Populations are people: choices for rural health care, by J.T. Hart”

Stockholm 2003 Declaration

In the final discussion at the Stockholm conference we tried to synthesise what participants had learned from the conference, with their own experience and understanding. We produced three themes: a description of health care systems, in terms of their complexity; a critique of health system managerialism; and an agenda for change in European health careContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 Declaration”

Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Garcés, J. et al.

Garcés, J.; R?denas, F. & Sanjos?, V. “Social Welfare Policies” Research Unit (SWP). University of Valencia (Spain). Empyrical cost-profit analysis of long term care system from Social Sustainability Principle. In view of the fast increase of social and health care demand in Southern European Welfare States, it is necessary to increase the efficiency of welfareContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Garcés, J. et al.”

Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Marcelo Firpo de S. Porto

Marcelo Firpo de S. Porto Researcher at the Brazilian National School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) and visiting researcher at the Institute for Medical Sociology / University of Frankfurt. Globalization and Work in Brazil: recent trends and perspectives Abstract: This paper aims to show the recent impacts of globalization in the Brazilian labor market mainly duringContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Marcelo Firpo de S. Porto”

Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Sara Alander & Bo Burström

Sara Alander & Bo Burström Karolinska Institutet Economic strain and health among lone mothers in Sweden 1979-1998 Abstract A more equitable allocation of resources in a society may lead to improved population health. The situation of lone mothers may be seen as a litmus paper on how equitable a society is, and the performance ofContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Sara Alander & Bo Burström”

Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Rolf Gustafsson

Rolf Gustafsson Social capital -‘social’ or ‘capital’ ? Abstract This lecture presents a critical analysis of the metaphorical concept ‘social capital’ (SC) which is widely used in public discourse. It reports several problems with SC both conceptually and in terms of possible effects on the public discourse. The time is ripe for a thorough analysis ofContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Rolf Gustafsson”

Stockholm 2003 abstracts: B. Braun & J-U Niehoff

Bernard Braun (Universitat Bremen) Jens-Uwe Niehoff (Altwustrow) The German Health Services System under transformation The political languages still demands reforms. But the German health services system is going to transform into a different one. There are three main aspects of that transformation to identify: the transformation of financing the funds the transformation of the servicesContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: B. Braun & J-U Niehoff”