The reflections of the General Agreement on Trade of Services or GATS augmented in our daily lives. Contract based work, performance based payment and temporary working schedules, insecurity and unemployment are some of the results of GATS. Since more than two months tobacco workers of recently privatized Factory of Turkish Monopoly of Tobacco and AlcoholContinue reading “Tobacco workers are resisting against neoliberal policies in Ankara”
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El Derecho a la Salud para todos en la Unión Europea
El Derecho a la Salud para todos en la Unión Europea Declaración de Toledo Los ciudadanos y ciudadanas de los países miembros de la Unión Europea disfrutan de unos niveles de salud y de bienestar social entre los más altos del mundo desarrollado, resultado de la acción política de los gobiernos, de la intervención delContinue reading “El Derecho a la Salud para todos en la Unión Europea”
FADSP is denouncing Madrid’s Regional Governement that abolishes Public Health Structures
IAHP executive expressed its solidarity to our friends of the Federación de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Sanidad Pública http://www.fadsp.org “La IAHP (International Association of Health Policy) adhiere y se solidariza con la denuncia de la desaparición de la Dirección General de Salud Pública de Madrid, sustanciada por decreto el pasado 3 de abril. Esta medidaContinue reading “FADSP is denouncing Madrid’s Regional Governement that abolishes Public Health Structures”
Health Policy In Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges, a new book by IAHPE
IAHPE new book This book is an effort to describe and critically analyse the recent experience of various European countries and discuss the dilemmas and challenges that confront health policy and policy-makers in this period of time and geopolitical setting, providing concrete evidence from various countries. Specific chapters address issues in Germany, Sweden, the UnitedContinue reading “Health Policy In Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges, a new book by IAHPE”
Challenging health inequalities, a new book edited by Elizabeth Dowler and Nick J. Spencer
This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges. The book presents an overview of progress since the publication of the seminal and ambitious 1998 Acheson Inquiry into health inequalities, and the theoretical and methodologicalContinue reading “Challenging health inequalities, a new book edited by Elizabeth Dowler and Nick J. Spencer”
La Directiva Bolkestein, Ramon Serna
La Directiva Bolkenstein y el recorte de los servicios publicos en Europa Ramon Serna, Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya – El proyecto de la directiva que se conoce con este nombre fue adoptado por la Comisi?n Europea en enero de este a?o y pretende empezar a aplicarse a partir del pr?ximo a?o, despu?s de que seaContinue reading “La Directiva Bolkestein, Ramon Serna”
XIV Thessaloniki Conference 2005
Theme of the Conference: Health policy in Europe: contemporary dilemmas and challenges subthemes: Health policy reports from the different European Countries Main characteristics of the national health policies and the ongoing reforms. The dominant Health policies in EU and the other european countries. Are there similar or different? Are the dominant policies within Europe stillContinue reading “XIV Thessaloniki Conference 2005”
El Derecho a la Salud para todos en la Unión Europea. Declaración de Toledo
Los ciudadanos y ciudadanas de los países miembros de la Unión Europea disfrutan de unos niveles de salud y de bienestar social entre los más altos del mundo desarrollado, resultado de la acción política de los gobiernos, de la intervención del conjunto de los agentes sociales y del desarrollo de los sistemas sanitarios públicos. LaContinue reading “El Derecho a la Salud para todos en la Unión Europea. Declaración de Toledo”
European Network for the right to health
FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH A year after Florence, the European Network for the right to health strongly emphasises again the need for the movement to consider health care as a social right, universal and not commercial. In Paris we have transformed a charter of intents, like the oneContinue reading “European Network for the right to health”
Stockholm 2003 Declaration
In the final discussion at the Stockholm conference we tried to synthesise what participants had learned from the conference, with their own experience and understanding. We produced three themes: a description of health care systems, in terms of their complexity; a critique of health system managerialism; and an agenda for change in European health careContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 Declaration”
International Association of Health Policy 