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Savar, Bangladesh (2000)
People's Charter for Health
People's Charter for Health
Introduction In 1978, at the Alma‐Ata Conference, ministers from 134 member countries in association with WHO and UNICEF declared “Health for All by the Year 2000” selecting Primary Health Care as the best tool to achieve it. Unfortunately, that dream never came true. […] Currently we are facing a global health crisis, characterized by growing inequalities within and between countries. New threats to health are continually emerging . This is compounded by negative forces of globalization which prevent the equitable distribution of resources with regard to the health of people and especially that of the poor. http://www.phmovement.org/en/resources/charters/peopleshealth? destination=home
People's Charter for Health
Introduction It has now become essential to build up a concerted international effort to put the goals of health for all to its rightful place on the development agenda. Genuine, people�centered initiatives must therefore be strengthened in order to increase pressure on decision� makers, governments and the private sector to ensure that the vision of Alma� Ata becomes a reality. http://www.phmovement.org/en/resources/charters/peopleshealth? destination=home
People's Charter for Health
Declaration of Alma Ata, 1978 Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination. Alma Ata Declaration
Preamble Health is a social, economic and political issue and above all a fundamental human right. Inequality, poverty, exploitation, violence and injustice are at the root of ill�health and the deaths of poor and marginalised people. Health for all means that powerful interests have to be challenged, that globalisation has to be opposed, and that political and economic priorities have to be drastically changed. http://www.phmovement.org/en/resources/charters/peopleshealth? destination=home
People's Charter for Health
Preamble This Charter builds on perspectives of people whose voices have rarely been heard before, if at all. It encourages people to develop their own solutions and to hold accountable local authorities, national governments, international organisations and corporations. http://www.phmovement.org/en/resources/charters/peopleshealth? destination=home
People's Charter for Health
Cuenca, Ecuador (2005)
Cape Town, South Africa (2012)
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International People's Health University
www.iphu.org
International People's Health University
Global Health Watch
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WHO Watch
http://www.ghwatch.org/node/1841 http://www.saluteinternazionale.info/2013/02/c onsiglio-esecutivo-oms-in-diretta-da-ginevra/
Global Health Watch
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Health for All Campaigns Health and Reproductive Justice
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Extractive Industries
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Health as a human right
Health is the reflection of the commitment of the society for equity and justice
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Contextualizing the right to health ‘If people are not aware of the historical and contextual nature of human rights and are not aware that human rights become realised only by the struggles of real people experiencing real instances of domination, then human rights are all too easily used as symbolic legitimisers and instruments of that very domination.’ A. Belden Fields & Wolf-Dieter Narr, Human Rights as a Holistic Concept, Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 14 No.1 (1992) 20
Health as a human right
Health is the reflection of the commitment of the society for equity and justice
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