People's Health Movement

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


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


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.


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.


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?

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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.


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

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http://www.ghwatch.org/node/1841

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

People's Health Movement

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