Dear Friends, In Kobane since 23 days there are very heavy attacks of ISIS. Hundreds of thousands people fled to Turkey. This is one of the worst forced migration we have ever faced. The total number of immigrants had reached to millions. We need urgent solidarity in order to makeane visible in the world. EnclosedContinue reading “Solidarity and Call for Action to Support Kobani”
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DrC. Miguel Márquez (1934-2014)
OBITUARY (following in spanish) Last February 3, 2014, Professor of Merit and Dr C . Miguel Marquez died, just a month before his 80th birthday . He was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, on March 23, 1934. He was a recognized Latin American public health expert, a dear friend of Cuba, and a man of extraordinaryContinue reading “DrC. Miguel Márquez (1934-2014)”
Health care delivery and financing: no commercial goods, Antwerp 16-18 December 2013
Institut of Tropical Medicine Antwerp 16-18 December 2013 European social protection in health care at great risk Find more at http://iahpeconference2013.wordpress.com/
Humanity and Medicine!, by Turkish Medical Association
PRESS RELEASE 21 June 2013 Humanity and Medicine! We waited and expected from those at the top To be sensitive to a peaceful action taking place in Gezi Park… To have respect to those who firmly adopted a peaceful attitude in spite of all violent acts against them… Not to harm our citizens who rushedContinue reading “Humanity and Medicine!, by Turkish Medical Association”
Solidarity to the struggling turkish people
Dear friends, Right now, police forces in Turkey are using excessive violence against peaceful protesters, injuring scores of people. Only a massive public outcry will pressure PM Erdoğan to stop the crackdown. Sign the urgent petition now and share with everyone: I am writing this e-mail from Taksim Square in Istanbul where peaceful protesters areContinue reading “Solidarity to the struggling turkish people”
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 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”
Programa Master en Políticas Públicas y Sociales
Programa en Políticas Públicas y Sociales UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA- THE JOHNS HOPKINS Desde hace ya seis años la Universidad Pompeu Fabra conjuntamente con uno de los programas de formación en Políticas Públicas más importantes en el mundo anglosajón, el Public Policy Program de la Johns Hopkins University de Estados Unidos, establecieron en Barcelona el ProgramaContinue reading “Programa Master en Políticas Públicas y Sociales”
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”
Medical Education for the 21st Century – Teaching for Health Equity, 30 November to 3 December 2008, Havana, Cuba
IAHP and ALAMES join in organizing the Medical Education for the 21st Century: Teaching for Health Equity. This conference, will bring together health professionals and researchers in the fields of medical and health sciences education; public health; and basic, clinical and social sciences to exchange the latest thinking and construct new paradigms in medical andContinue reading “Medical Education for the 21st Century – Teaching for Health Equity, 30 November to 3 December 2008, Havana, Cuba”
International Association of Health Policy 