Istanbul Chamber of Physicians made a press declaration in front of the hospital building onFebruary 7, 2011 to support our colleagues striking against the conditions ofthe physicians who have not received their salaries for months while working at JFK Hospital that owned by Şafak HospitalsGroup and Marfin Investment Group (HYGEIA) partnership and at the otherhospitals.Continue reading “Systematic Usurpation of salaries by Marfin Investment Group (Hygeia) in Turkey”
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The advertising to users of medicines puts at risk the health and sustainability of health care systems
December 2, 2010 The European Parliament has just approved the possibility that the pharmaceutical industry to report directly to patients about medication on prescription. This measure, which supposedly done to improve the information of the citizens, is really a major setback to the right of reliable information and quality. There is much evidence that theContinue reading “The advertising to users of medicines puts at risk the health and sustainability of health care systems”
UK: criticism of the coalition government’s controversial White Paper “Liberating the NHS”
PRESS RELEASE: Friday October 1, Immediate BMA right to slam Lansley’s “deeply flawed” White Paper Pro-NHS pressure group Heath Emergency today welcomed the shift of position by the BMA to open criticism of the coalition government’s controversial White Paper “Liberating the NHS”. Health Emergency Director Dr John Lister published a widely publicised open letter toContinue reading “UK: criticism of the coalition government’s controversial White Paper “Liberating the NHS””
The right to health for citizens of the European Union, Brussels 20 October 2010
Edificio Van Maerlant: Van Maerlant Building (VMA1) 2, Rue Van Maerlant 1000 Bruxelles The objective of the conference is to analyze the currentsituation of the right to health in EU regulations, the situation in thecountries of the European Unionand to propose a letter from the right to health of EUcitizens. 9 A.m.: Roundtable .- TheContinue reading “The right to health for citizens of the European Union, Brussels 20 October 2010”
Maria Urbaneja: Un mensaje sobre Sergio Aruca
Amigos y amigas de la Salud Colectiva de América Latina, amigos y amigas de ALAMES Se nos fue Sergio amigo, compañero de sueños y de luchas por la defensa de la Salud como Derecho y como Bien Publico. Conocí a Sergio en aquella reunión de Ariccia, Roma en 1979 y desde ahí se tejió unaContinue reading “Maria Urbaneja: Un mensaje sobre Sergio Aruca”
Scientists against the new EU rules comercialising clinical trials research
Scientists beg EU to repeal new rules for clinical trials Brussels Rory Watson Thousands of academics and scientists across Europe are appealing to the European Union to repeal new legislation that they fear could seriously damage the prospects of non-commercial, academically led, patient focused clinical research. Opponents of the new rules, which are due toContinue reading “Scientists against the new EU rules comercialising clinical trials research”
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
XXV Jornadas de Debate sobre Sanidad Pública, 2006
20 años de la Ley General de de Sanidad 25 años de la FADSP Santiago de Compostela 23, 24 y 25 de Noviembre del 2006 Asociacion Galega para a Defensa da Sanidade Pública Federacion de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Sanidad Pública Facultad de Medicina Rua San Francisco s/n Facultad de Ciencias de laContinue reading “XXV Jornadas de Debate sobre Sanidad Pública, 2006”
International Association of Health Policy 