Papers
Lessons From Latin America
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Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Celia Iriart, PhD, MPH, Alfredo Estrada, MD and Silvia Lamadrid, MA
Social Medicine Then and Now: Lessons From Latin America
American Journal of Public Health October 2001, Vol 91, No. 10 | 1592-1601
Human Right to Health, by David Werner
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David Werner
Insuring the necessary resources for the human right to health: national and international measures
Address to the Global Assembly on "Advancing the Human Right to Health"
Iowa City, Iowa, April 20-22, 2001
In
the 1940s, the United Nations declared Health a Basic Human Right. The
World Health Organization was created to help make that Right a
reality. But during the next several decades, the Right to Health
remained a distant dream for most of the world's people.
The NHS from Thatcher to Blair, by Peter Fisher
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:58.The NHS from Thatcher to Blair
addressed to the 12th IAHP and XIV FADSP Conference, Palma de MAllorca 23 May 2002
In looking at how the NHS has changed over this period it is possible to see a pattern.
Sometimes quickly, sometimes more slowly and with occasional steps in the opposite direction, we have been moving away from the concept of a publicly owned, publicly accountable service.
Health care under globalisation, by H.U.Deppe
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:55.H.U. Deppe
Re-thinking the basic conditions of health care under the impact of globalisation
addressed to the 12th IAHP and XIV FADSP Conference, Palma de MAllorca 23 May 2002
2002 IAHP/FADSP Mallorca Conference papers
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:52.- Re-thinking the basic conditions of health care under the impact of globalisation by H.U. Deppe, University of Frankfurt, Germany
- The NHS from Thatcher to Blair by Peter Fisher, NHS Consultants Association UK
- Globalisation and Health: a view from Africa by David Sanders, University of the Western Cape
Private finance & "value for money" by A. Pollock et al
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:49.Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?
British Medical Journal, 2002; 324: 1205-1209
Summary points:
The private finance initiative (PFI) brings no new capital investment into public services and is a debt which has to be serviced by future generations.
The government's case for using PFI rests on a value for money assessment skewed in favour of private finance
Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:47.Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination
CONSTRAINTS IN DEVELOPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Higher mortality in for-profit hospitals
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:45.A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals
Canadian Medical Association Journal 2002;166(11):1399-406
A critique of WHO Macroeconomics report by D Banerji
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:44.A critique of the report of the WHO commission on Macroeconomics and Health as highlighted in INHP Bulletin 10 March 2002
The Report on of the WHO initiated Commission on Macroeconomics and Health is a very disappointing document. It is ahistorical, apolitical and atheoretical. It is biased. Its contents are so highly skewed that it glosses over some of the such crucial interdisciplinary dimensions of the
Mortality between for profit & not-for profit centres
Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:32.
P. J. Devereaux, MD; Holger J. Sch?nemann, MD, PhD; Nikila Ravindran,
BSc; Mohit Bhandari, MD, MSc; Amit X. Garg, MD; Peter T.-L. Choi, MD,
MSc; Brydon J. B. Grant, MD; Ted Haines, MD; Christina Lacchetti, MHSc;
Bruce Weaver, MSc; John N. Lavis, MD, PhD; Deborah J. Cook, MD, MSc;
David R. S. Haslam, MD, MSc; Terrence Sullivan, PhD; Gordon H. Guyatt,
MD, MSc
Comparison of Mortality Between Private For-Profit
and Private Not-For-Profit Hemodialysis Centers. A Systematic Review
and Meta-analysis
JAMA. 2002;288:2449-2457
