Public Health 2003 24 – 26 March 2003 Cape Town, S. Africa The new Public Health Association of South Africa is organising this conference gathering all the leading academics, colleagues and organisations of S. Africa committed to the development of the urgently needed human capacity in Public Health. The conference seeks to influence the PublicContinue reading “Public Health in S.Africa, 24-26 March 2003”
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Manifiesto Contra la Guerra “Primum non nocere”
Como profesionales de la salud, asistimos con alarma a los preparativos para el ataque que Estados Unidos se dispone a desencadenar contra Iraq, con la ayuda del gobierno inglιs y el apoyo de la UE. Como ejercientes de una profesion cuya razσn de ser es mejorar la salud y preservar, en lo posible, a losContinue reading “Manifiesto Contra la Guerra “Primum non nocere””
US Physicians for a National Health Program
Dear PNHP physicians, medical students and far-flung friends, A new bill for single payer will be introduced in Congress on Tuesday, February 4 (press release to follow). We thank all the members of the Physicians Working Group for Single Payer for all their hard work on this project, as well as Rep. John Conyers, aContinue reading “US Physicians for a National Health Program”
WHO-DG to lead defence of health as a social right
WHO Director general elections debate The Lancet; Volume 361, Number 9354 25 January 2003 To lead the defense of health as a social right Alexis Benos President of the International Association of Health Policy Medical Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. “The World Health Organisation’s mandate is to get the evidence right and ensure thatContinue reading “WHO-DG to lead defence of health as a social right”
II International Forum Advocacy of Peoples’ Health
III World Social Forum: Another world is possible II International Forum for the Advocacy of Peoples’ Health as an Essential Human Need, a Citizenship Right and a Public Good Porto Alegre – RS – Brasil January 20th – 23rd, 2003 Organization: Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social – ALAMES International Peoples’ Health Council – IPHC InternationalContinue reading “II International Forum Advocacy of Peoples’ Health”
Million Signatures on the Internet to demand “Health for all now”
Hyderabad (India), Savar (Bangladesh), Managua (Nicaragua), 5th January 2003: PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT and INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S HEALTH COUNCIL launches: The Million Signature Campaign: A march on the Internet demanding HEALTH FOR ALL NOW! “In the next 24 hours, over 30,000 children will die from preventable diseases on our planet earth. Today, while the world is writingContinue reading “Million Signatures on the Internet to demand “Health for all now””
Urgent appeal from Palestine 19 November 2002
URGENT APPEAL 19th November 2002 The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) condemns the Israeli occupation of the Medical Relief Center in Jenin that occurred today, Tuesday 19th November 2002, at 5.00 am. We have received information that much of our equipment was intentionally destroyed. Our doctors and nurses were threatened at gun-point andContinue reading “Urgent appeal from Palestine 19 November 2002”
Exigen tolerancia y respeto a la Constitucion
Venezuela: Organizaciones de derechos humanos y de desarrollo rechazan pronunciamiento militar Las organizaciones de derechos humanos y de desarrollo abajo firmantes, preocupadas por la presencia de violencia discursiva y no discursiva en la vida pol?tica del pa?s, y ante la reciente manifestaci?n p?blica de un grupo de oficiales activos de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, convocandoContinue reading “Exigen tolerancia y respeto a la Constitucion”
Uninsured Hispanics Up 50% Last Decade in USA
submitted by: PNHP Number of Hispanics lacking health insurance up 270,000 in USA Number of Uninsured Hispanics Up 50% in Last Decade in the USA Eight States Also Experience Increase in Uninsured Despite Slight National Drop Layoffs & Recession Expected to Increase People Without Insurance in 2002 New York City – While the number ofContinue reading “Uninsured Hispanics Up 50% Last Decade in USA”
Higher mortality in for-profit hospitals
P.J. Devereaux, Peter T.L. Choi, Christina Lacchetti, Bruce Weaver, Holger J. Schünemann, Ted Haines, John N. Lavis, Brydon J.B. Grant, David R.S. Haslam, Mohit Bhandari, Terrence Sullivan, Deborah J. Cook, Stephen D. Walter, Maureen Meade, Humaira Khan, Neera Bhatnagar and Gordon H. Guyatt A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of privateContinue reading “Higher mortality in for-profit hospitals”
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