In preparation of People's Health Assembly II - part 17
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What the People's Health Movement (PHM) has to achieve in
Cuenca, Ecuador, next July, is by no means simple. There are
many important competing areas and topics that require a clear
pronouncement/position by our grassroots organizations' con-
stituency.
Among other, I suggest the following are some of the key defin-
ing topics facing us in 2005. It is good we all begin thinking
about these individually and in groups in preparation of PHA II.
You are very welcome to comment on these and to submit ideas to
this server for corrections and additions.
Paulo Freire and the 'conscientization' movement: relevance for
our activists' work.
- Equity and Human Rights in health
- Health and economic development
- Health and Globalization
- Nutrition, health and Human Rights
- The new Human Rights approach of the UN
- Health and land reform
- Health, rights and demographic trends in developing countries
- Foreign aid, debt: How do they affect health?
- Development ethics and ideologies: the last 40 years and why
it has all worked so poorly for Health for All
- Health activism: networking and coalition building
- Genuine people's participation in Health for All Now: what
will it take?
- Health, development work and community-centered programs
- Health interventions as tools of empowerment
- What is really empowering?
- Women's role in Health for All Now and in development in gen-
eral: what is really empowering for them?
- Health and small scale income generation programs: are they
related? how?
- Health and rural credit for women: related? how?
- Making sense out of the myriad of "World Reports" (World De-
velopement Report, State of the World's Children, The Progress
of Nations, State of the World-Worldwatch Institute, SCN Re-
port on the state of the world's nutrition, etc.): good diag-
noses with pitiful follow-up?
- Sectoral World Declarations and Health Rights (three Rome dec-
larations on food issues since 1984; Rio, Copenhagen, Beijing,
Cairo Declarations): good intentions and pitiful follow-up?
- Health and sustainable development
- Health and Human Rights in emergencies and armed conflicts
- Health and Human Rights in the times of AIDS
- Health for All Now: NGOs and civil society; the need for NGOs
to 'revision and remission' their mandates to regain an activ-
ist's role as true allies of the poor.
- 20th century Science, Ethics and Politics and their legacy/
effects on Health and wellbeing the world over.
- Corruption, bureaucracy, accountability and transparency and
the role of the activist
- Health status and income distribution; what is the relation?
- Activism work as a life-long career
- The political economy of ill-health and malnutrition
- Health for all Now in 2005: What new needed commitments?
- The role of donors in worldwide foreign aid in health: bless-
ing or curse?
- The role of government in the battle against violations of the
right to health
- Technocrats and activists in health and development work: Were
do you stand?
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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn