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

Primary Health Care: an overview by D. Banerjee

Guest Lecture for National Seminar on Health For All in the New Millenium, NIHFW, February 24-26, 2003 (Professor Emeritus, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University) A WATERSHED IN PUBLIC HEALTH The concept of Primary Health Care (PHC), which was approved by the World Health Assembly in 1977 and endorsed at theContinue reading “Primary Health Care: an overview by D. Banerjee”

A new book by Julian Tudor Hart

The political economy of healthcare: A clinical perspective by Dr. Julian Tudor Hart This new book, just published by Policy Press is written by our friend, longstanding leader of our strugles for another possible world, active member of IHAP Julian Tudor Hart. The book offers a passionate analysis of the historical development, current and potentialContinue reading “A new book by Julian Tudor Hart”

Centre for International Public Health Policy

The Centre for International Public Health Policy has been newly established in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. It offers MSc programmes in global health policy, and carries out research into international health, public health policy, and the use of private finance in public services, including the use ofContinue reading “Centre for International Public Health Policy”

Medico International looking for a coordinator in Ramallah

medico international e.V. a Frankfurt-based German Non-Governmental Organization, provides emergency relief and supports human rights and development projects to secure access to health care for those in need. For the implementation of the envisaged ECHO-funded project “meeting the health needs of communities in the Ramallah district by sustaining and improving the health care services” inContinue reading “Medico International looking for a coordinator in Ramallah”

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”

Vicente Navarro, Que esta ocurriendo en la OMS

¿QUÉ ESTÁ OCURRIENDO EN LA ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DE LA SALUD?* La próxima elección del director general de la OMS VICENTE NAVARRO Catedrático de Políticas Públicas y Gestión Sanitaria, Escuela de Salud Pública en la Universidad John Hopkins; Director del Programa en Políticas Públicas y Sociales en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra-John Hopkins; Fundador y pasado PresidenteContinue reading “Vicente Navarro, Que esta ocurriendo en la OMS”

What is happening at the World Health Organisation?

WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION? The Coming Election of the WHO Director-General by VICENTE NAVARRO Professor of Health and Public Policy, School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University; Director of the Public and Social Policy Program, Pompeu Fabra University – The Johns Hopkins University; Founder and Past President of the InternationalContinue reading “What is happening at the World Health Organisation?”

Health Reform: Turning away from the Solidarity Principle, by Hans-Ulrich Deppe

Neoliberal economic and labor market policy, stagnating working income and continuing mass unemployment have withered the extent of employment paying into social security the next financing crisis of health insurance is pre-programmed. Health Reform: Turning away from the Solidarity Principle by Hans-Ulrich Deppe In many areas of the public sector of society, changes are nowContinue reading “Health Reform: Turning away from the Solidarity Principle, by Hans-Ulrich Deppe”