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Mauri Johansson & Timo Partanen Trade Unions in workplace safety- and health promotion. With focus on cooperation between workers and academics in promoting health Public Health Partner, Denmark Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Mauri Johansson, MD, Denmark Since the middle of the nineteenth century, workers have organized in unions and parties to strengthen their effortsContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Johansson et al”

Marciano S. Bayle, Carlos Ponte, Manuel Martin, Hixinio Beiras and Felix Payo Social Movements against the privatization policy of the National Health Service in Spain Federacion de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Salud Publica, Spain During the last years several social movements of general people have been produced, inside and outside of the healthContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al (2)”

Dorte Gannik Is General Practice trapped? Reflections on health care, liberalisation and research priorities Central Research Unit for General Practice, Panum Institute, Copenhagen Dorte Gannik, Assoc.Professor, DscSoc For a while, reforms with a liberal tendency have been discussed with regard to health care in Denmark. Today, health care is largely a public responsibility. 81% ofContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: D. Gannik”

Marciano S. Bayle, Carlos Ponte, Manuel Martin, Hixinio Beiras and Felix Payo The privatization policy of the National Health Service in Spain Federacion de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Salud Publica, Spain Spain is endowed of a powerful National Health Service with free and universal coverage, with a high degree of equity as theContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: M. Bayle et al.”

Alexis Benos*, Stathis Giannakopoulos**, Theodore Zdoukos***, The ongoing health services reforms by the greek social-democratic governement: a fast way backwards *Assistant Prof In Social Medicine, **General Practitioner, Research Fellow, ***General Practitioner, Secretary of the Union of Physicians working in the NHS Laboratory of Hygiene & Social Medicine, Medical Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Contact:Continue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: A. Benos et al.”

Eva Bejerot and Hans Hasselbladh Quality systems in Swedish Health Services: Examination and confession technologies National Institute for Working Life School of Economics and Commercial Law S-112 79 Stockholm Box 610, S- 40530 Gothenburg Eva Bejerot e-mail Hans Hasselbladh e-mail A Swedish law was passed in 1996, which stipulated that appropriate quality systems should beContinue reading “London 2001 Conference Abstracts: E. Bejerot”

Alicia Stolkiner and research team PT48 UBACyT Research and Health Policies: including the social actors in research Institution: Secretariat of Science and Technology of the Buenos Aires University Address: Conde 665 (cp1426) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Phone / Fax: (54-11) 4555-7365 E-mail Introduction I am grateful for this opportunity to participate in this meeting with you.Continue reading “London 2001 Conference abstracts: A. Stolkiner”