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Challenges in Global Public Health and The People’s Health Movement - 20^th Jan 2005, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Introduction

 

A broad range of factors, including public policies at the micro and macro levels, determine wellbeing and health of an individual, a community or society. Over the past decades, considerable gains have been made in health status. However, the benefits of our increasingly integrated world economy have not accrued to all. In step with increasing inequalities in income, wealth, economic power, inequalities in health within and among countries have also persisted and continue deepening at a global level. In this unbalanced context, traditional as well as newly emerging diseases further aggravate the current crisis in global public health. On the other hand, our mutual interdependence has been highlighted by the recent tsunami in Asia and Africa.

 

Participation in the policy- and decision making process that determines health and wellbeing is critical in particular if based upon a vision of hope and sustainable, equitable development for the future.

 

In December 2000 the first People’s health Assembly (PHA) took place in Bangladesh. This was the culmination of a series of local, (micro-) regional and national consultations organised to revive the spirit of Health for All by 2000. This Assembly endorsed the People’s Health Charter (www.phmovement.org/charter/pch-english.html) that intends to set out a vision of hope for the future, the guiding principles and demands of the People’s Health Movement (PHM). Since then, this coalition of grassroots organisations, national and international NGOs, and international networks has developed into a global social movement with strong links to local communities combining both the capacity and legitimacy to participate in decision-making processes at the local and global level. Over the last years, the PHM has been playing an increasing role in official international health events, including the recent Ministerial Summit and Conference on Global Health research in Mexico.

 

Seminar Programme 

Venue: UMCN, KNO gebouw, Philips van Leydenlaan 15, KNO zaal 1^e verdieping

Date: 20 January 2005

Organisations: PHM, UMCN / Radboud University of Nijmegen, WEMOS, HAN, Women Global Network for Reproductive Rights

Secretariat: niih-secretariaat@AIG.umcn.nl

Tel. nr. 024-3616980

 

13.30 - 13.35	Welcome/Introduction of speakers	UMCN (Francoise Barten)
13.35 - 14.00	Globalisation and Challenge of Health For All - A view from  Sub-Saharan Africa	Prof. David Sanders (SOPH, UWC)
14.00 - 14.10	Questions
14.10 - 14.30	Origin and perspectives of People's Health Movement	Dr. Prem John ACHAN / PHM
14.30 - 14.40	Questions
14.40 - 15.00	Comments	Prof. Koos van der Velden,  Public Health UMCN, Dr. Pol de Vos, ITG/Antwerpen, Dr Frans Schuurman, CIDIN, NRC Handelsblad (to be confirmed)
15.00 - 15.45	Debate	Jose Utrera WEMOS
15.45 - 15.55	The Second People's Health Assembly in Cuenca, Ecuador	Andy Rutherford One World Action
15.55 - 16.00	Concluding Remarks	Rob Schuurmann HAN
16.00 - 16.30	Tea Break

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