Viva Salud, a Belgian ngo, just finished a new paper on the threats of privatizations in the health sector. In their new paper “Why is public health care better” you’ll learn: why privatisation causes bigger inequality in access to health care why privatisation is often more expensive on a long term why privatisation is notContinue reading “Paper: Why is public health care better?”
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Affaire Novartis Grèce: Scandale ou corruption institutionnelle?
Source: https://marginalia.gr/arthro/skandalo-i-thesmopoiimeni-diafthora par Alexis Bénos, Dr en Médecine Sociale, Professeur au Département de Médecine de l’Université Aristote de Thessalonique traduction Emmanuel Kosadinos Il est permis de reproduire et de distribuer l’article conformément aux termes de la licence Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Liminaire du traducteur : Cet article est paru dans l’avant-dernier numéro deContinue reading “Affaire Novartis Grèce: Scandale ou corruption institutionnelle?”
The Need to Avoid “TRIPS-Plus” Patent Clauses in Trade Agreements
The South Centre is pleased to announce the publication of Policy Brief No. 37 entitled “The Need to Avoid “TRIPS-Plus” Patent Clauses in Trade Agreements” by Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre. A recent article in a prestigious journal reminds us of how the intellectual property chapter of free trade agreements can preventContinue reading “The Need to Avoid “TRIPS-Plus” Patent Clauses in Trade Agreements”
Neoliberalism and changing conditions in commercialization, marketization and commodification, by Kurtar Tanyılmaz
Neoliberalism and changing conditions in commercialization, marketization and commodification Kurtar Tanyılmaz[1] 1- Introduction Today we live in a society where everything from air to water becomes for sale and produced for profit. From health to education and from shelter to water almost every product and/or service we know for years as “public” and as aContinue reading “Neoliberalism and changing conditions in commercialization, marketization and commodification, by Kurtar Tanyılmaz”
Commercialization, health services and academic freedom | Ticarileşme, sağlık hizmetleri ve akademik özgürlük: All the interventions at the Pre-Conference Workshop of IAHPE in collaboration with TMA (14-15/1, Ιstanbul [eng/tur]
Özgür Öztürk Trade, Market, Commodity (eng) | Ticaret, Piyasa, Meta (tur) Dr. Kurtar Tanyılmaz Neoliberalizmde ticarileşme, piyasalaşma ve metalaşmada değişen durum (tur) Onur Hamzaoglu, MD, Professor, Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity Saglik Hizmetlerinin Ekonomi Politigi (tur) Elias Kondilis, Senior Lecturer in Health Systems, QMUL Stergios Seretis, Post-doctoral Researcher, AUTh International Trade and commercialization of healthcare services: the case ofContinue reading “Commercialization, health services and academic freedom | Ticarileşme, sağlık hizmetleri ve akademik özgürlük: All the interventions at the Pre-Conference Workshop of IAHPE in collaboration with TMA (14-15/1, Ιstanbul [eng/tur]”
Fit for Whose Purpose? Private Funding & Corporate Influence in the United Nations
For a look at how the balance between public and private responsibility has shifted, and what this means in the real world in terms of adherence to international standards and norms, one needs to look no further than the United Nations itself. A new Global Policy Forum Report—Fit for Whose Purpose? Private funding and corporateContinue reading “Fit for Whose Purpose? Private Funding & Corporate Influence in the United Nations”
Study reveals austerity’s harmful impact on health in Greece
Findings are ‘much worse than we imagined,’ researcher says In one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece’s population in the wake of the global economic crisis. Writing in today’s AmericanContinue reading “Study reveals austerity’s harmful impact on health in Greece”
The Correa ‘phenomenon’ in Ecuador: between ‘buen vivir’ and neo-developmentalism, by Mauricio Torres & Pol de Vos
One of the initial decisions of Correa was the convening of a Constituent National Assembly. The new constitution was officially launched in July 2008 and ratified through a popular referendum in September of that year. The new Constitution defines Ecuador as a sovereign, independent, intercultural, multi-national and secular country, committed to a development model basedContinue reading “The Correa ‘phenomenon’ in Ecuador: between ‘buen vivir’ and neo-developmentalism, by Mauricio Torres & Pol de Vos”
The procedings of the XV IAHPE Conference at Coventry 2009 in DVDs
Conference Videos Condition Critical: Health Care, Marketising Reforms and the Media Held at Coventry University between June 17-20 2009 The international conference, organised by the International Associationof Health Policy in Europe and hosted by Coventry University, focused on “Health care, marketisation and the media”. It was attended by delegations from 15 countries and heard 38Continue reading “The procedings of the XV IAHPE Conference at Coventry 2009 in DVDs”
Disintegrated and integrated care, by Jean-Pierre Unger et al
The authors are arguing that the negative impact of neoliberal health policy on disease control and health care in low and middleincome countries justifies an alternative aid policy to improve both disease control and health care. The authors propose social-and-democrat health policy calls for networking, lobbying and training as a joint effort in which committed healthContinue reading “Disintegrated and integrated care, by Jean-Pierre Unger et al”
International Association of Health Policy 