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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”

VIth European Conference on Health Promotion and Education

VIth European Conference on Health Promotion and Education Equity, solidarity and responsibility for health JUNE 18-21, 2003 PERUGIA, ITALY

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”