people's health movement
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Presentation People's Health Movement Marianna ParisottoTRANSCRIPT
PEOPLE'S HEALTH MOVEMENTPEOPLE'S HEALTH MOVEMENT
www.phmovement.orgwww.phmovement.org
movements
networks
health for all
right to health activism
peoples
participation
practices
solidarity
Savar, Bangladesh (2000)Savar, Bangladesh (2000)
People's Charter for HealthPeople's Charter for Health
People's Charter for HealthPeople's Charter for Health
People's Charter for HealthPeople's Charter for Health
IntroductionIntroduction
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 HealthPeople's Charter for Health
IntroductionIntroduction
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
Alma Ata DeclarationAlma Ata Declaration
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.
People's Charter for HealthPeople's Charter for Health
PreamblePreamble
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 HealthPeople's Charter for Health
PreamblePreamble
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
Cuenca, Ecuador (2005)Cuenca, Ecuador (2005)
11Cape Town, South Africa (2012)Cape Town, South Africa (2012)
International People's Health UniversityInternational People's Health University
www.iphu.orgwww.iphu.org
International People's Health UniversityInternational People's Health University
Global Health WatchGlobal Health Watch
www.ghwatch.orgwww.ghwatch.org
WHO WatchWHO Watch
http://www.ghwatch.org/node/1841http://www.ghwatch.org/node/1841
http://www.saluteinternazionale.info/2013/02/chttp://www.saluteinternazionale.info/2013/02/consiglio-esecutivo-oms-in-diretta-da-ginevra/onsiglio-esecutivo-oms-in-diretta-da-ginevra/
Global Health WatchGlobal Health Watch
www.ghwatch.orgwww.ghwatch.org
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Health for All CampaignsHealth for All Campaigns
Health and Reproductive Justice
· Extractive Industries
· Health Systems
· Food Sovereignty
· Fair and Healthy Work
· Trade and Health
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Health as a human rightHealth 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 healthContextualizing 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)
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Health as a human rightHealth as a human right
Health is the
reflection of the commitment
of the society
for equity
and justice
PHM – Platform for ActionPHM – Platform for Action
Think globally, act locally
Think and act, globally and locally
Social movement, social change
Platform for sharing analysis, campaigns, advocacy,
resistance and struggles
Network of networks