Last Update:  March 14, 2005  

Pre PHA 2000 Issue Papers

Framework - Working Papers

A key document in the lead up to the Peoples Health Assembly. This set out the reasons why the PHA was being held and some of the issues that needed to be looked at. 
 

• English   -  pdf  558 kb  - doc 147 kb 

• Spanish  -  pdf  586 kb

Background Papers

These background papers were published prior to the People's Health Assembly of 2000 in Savar Bangladesh.  

• Background I: 
  The Political Economy of the Assault on Health 
    -  pdf  441 kb   - doc  104 kb 
   

• Background II: 
  Equity and Inequity: Some Contributing Social Factors 
    -  pdf  196 kb   -  doc  60 kb 
   

• Background III:
  The Medicalization of Health Care and the Challenge of Health for All  
    -  pdf  296 kb  -  doc  97 kb 
   

• Background IV: 
  The Environmental Crisis: Threats to Health and Ways Forward 
    -  pdf  367 kb  -  doc  82 kb
   

• Background V:
  Communication As If People Mattered: Adapting Health Promotion and Social Action to the Global Imbalances of the 21st Century 
    -  pdf  545 kb  -  doc  124 kb