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XIII IAHP International Conference
6, 7 and 8 th June 2004
Durban, South Africa
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ALAMES: News: Maria Urbaneja: Un mensaje sobre Sergio Aruca
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Amigos y amigas de la Salud Colectiva de América Latina, amigos y amigas de ALAMES
Se nos fue Sergio amigo, compañero de sueños y de luchas por la defensa de la Salud como Derecho y como Bien Publico. Conocí a Sergio en aquella reunión de Ariccia, Roma en 1979 y desde ahí se tejió una amistad y un compartir de amigos, compañeros, maestro.
Sergio me invito a Brasil a estudiar en la ENSP, lo que solidifico los vínculos.
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Related: Papers: The Alma Ata Anniversary Pack by PHM
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This collection of statements, reflections and papers is released for use by People�s Health Movement members, friends and enthusiasts all over the world to initiate a celebration for the Alma Ata Declaration anniversary particularly around 6-12th September 2003. (These are the actual dates of the meeting in 1978 when the Alma Ata Declaration was passed in an International Conference on Primary Health Care organized by World Health Organization and UNICEF and other organizations and ratified by the majority of the countries of the world.).
The Declaration is particularly significant to the People�s Health Movement because the People�s Charter for Health which evolved at the first People�s Health Assembly at Gonoshasthya Kendra (GK) � Savar in Bangladesh on 8th December 2000, endorsed the principles and practice of universal, comprehensive Primary Health Care as outlined in the Alma Ata Declaration.
Celebrating the Alma Ata Anniversary is therefore a symbolic endorsement of both these consensus documents and an opportunity to express solidarity with the Health for All Now campaign of the Global People�s Health Movement.
Dr. Ravi Narayan,
Coordinator
People�s Health Movement Secretariat (Global)
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IAHPE: Declarations: Stochkolm 2003 Declaration
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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 care systems.
COMPLEXITY. We concluded that:
1. Health care systems are complex, because:
They are embedded in society, and rooted in culture
They are whole systems, not simple mechanisms
They reflect economic change
They are politically driven
They are about social relationships
2. This complexity is:
Sometimes a problem for individuals using services,although there is often a high level of public satisfaction with health services (except in the USA)
A source of stability but therefore of resistance to change
A management problem, that leads to managerial attempts to simplify the complexity.
3. To understand a part of a health care system you must understand the whole system.
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Resources: Papers: La investigaci�n participativa como derecho
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La investigaci�n participativa como derecho: posibilidad o utopia?
Luis Justo*, Fabiana Erazun**, Jorgelina Villarreal***
* Medico, C�tedra de Bioetica, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
** Profesora de Filosofia, C�tedra de Etica, Facultad de Filosofia, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
*** Antrop�loga, C�tedra de Bioetica, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
Presentado en la 1 Conferencia Internacional sobre Buenas Pr�cticas en Investigaci�n en Salud, Foro Latinoamericano de Comit�s de �tica en Investigaci�n en Salud (FLACEIS), Brasilia, 28-30 de Octubre, 2002
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Resources: Papers: Argentina: torture, silence, and medical teaching
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Argentina: torture, silence, and medical teaching
BMJ 2003;326:1405
More than 30 years ago I asked my surgical instructor about petechial lesions on the scrotums of some criminals interned in the surgical ward. The shocking answer was, "Oh, yes, the police make them all go through 'the machine' before taking them to the hospital." The machine, the "picana el�ctrica," was a device for torturing prisoners with electric shocks, usually in the vagina, testicles, mouth, anus, or nipples. I was horrified by the fact itself but no less by the matter of fact tone in which the answer was given. As a medical student I was pretty powerless, but I went to the head of the surgical service and tried to lodge a formal complaint. I was rebuffed without any chance to make my argument heard.
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Resources: Papers: In Place of Bevan? Foundation hospitals bill
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In Place of Bevan? Foundation hospitals bill
Briefing on the Health and Social Care
(Community Health and Standards) Bill 2003
Allyson Pollock and David Price
Public Health Policy Unit, University College London
Published in association with
The Society for Social Medicine and the NHS Consultations Association
A Catalyst Briefing Paper.
Published: July 2003
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Resources: Papers: Health Care or Health Trade? A historic moment of choice, by J.T. Hart
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Julian Tudor Hart
HEALTH CARE OR HEALTH TRADE? A HISTORIC MOMENT OF CHOICE
Paper presented at European Network for the Defense of Public Health of the European Social Forum Anti-Summit Conference on Globalisation, Thessaloniki, 18 June 2003.
Since the 1970s, advanced medical care throughout the world has been dragged through a painful but apparently necessary and inevitable metamorphosis. This can be summed up as transformation of medicine to a system of material production, through which an infant culture of trying, based on faith, hope and mutual self-deception, has matured to an adult culture of verified doing, based on evidence, and measured inputs, outputs, and efficiency. Medical care has at last become recognised as a production system, an economy which can be analysed and measured. This could be either a major advance, or a strategic defeat for health care. The answer depends on who will control this new process of production, and whose purposes it will serve.
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ALAMES: Books: La tranformacion neoliberal del sistema de salud. Chile 1973-1990
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Carolina Tetelboin Henrion
La tranformacion neoliberal del sistema de salud. Chile 1973-1990
Reformas de primera generacion
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Genero-Gender: Papers: SALUCO Red Cubana de Género y Salud Colectiva (02 - 2003)
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Salud Reproductiva y edades extremas.
Boletín No. 2 Año 2 Junio 2003.
Boletín de la Red Cubana de Género y Salud Colectiva
Ateneo Juan César García, Sociedad Cubana de Salud Pública
Capítulo Cubano de la Red de Género y Salud Colectiva de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (ALAMES)
Coordinadora:
Leticia Artiles
Vicecoordinadoras:
Ada Alfonso
Celia Sarduy
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