News and Analysis

PHM Global News Volume 2, Issue 1 - May 2012

A new issue of the PHM Global newsletter is now available for download.

In this issue:

  • Right to Health Campaign Moves Towards Mobilization
  • PHM Circles Take Action to Gain Health For All Around the World
  • More Updates on the Third People's Health Assembly
PHM Global News Volume 2, Issue 1 - May 2012

PHM Global News Volume 2, Issue 1 - May 2012

In this issue:

  • Right to Health Campaign Moves Towards Mobilization
  • PHM Circles Take Action to Gain Health For All Around the World
  • More Updates on the Third People's Health Assembly

PHM EVALUATION REPORT 2011

The evaluation was conducted from January to June 2011, by a team consisting of six members residing in India, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland, Sweden, and Thailand. The evaluation was conducted through document review (global docs, evaluations, report, publications, etc), interviews and electronic survey questionnaires with the Steering Council, country focal points, IPHU alumni and faculty.

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Evaluation Findings

PHM India is calling for national debate on design of proposed system for 'Universal Health Care'

PHM India is calling for national debate on design of proposed system for 'Universal Health Care', to ensure quality, free health care for all as a right, to give priority to expansion and improvement of public health services, and to regulate the private health sector.

Released on the occasion of World Health Day -- April 7/2012 and in preparation for PHA3.

OUR VISION

Participate in the program development - Closed

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We take great pleasure in sharing with you a very preliminary draft of the programme for the Third Peoples Health Assembly, to be organised between 6-11 July, 2012. The broad draft schedule for the entire programme of PHA-3 is available here.

We seek your comments and suggestions regarding the first part of the programme for PHA-3, i.e. the plenaries and sub-plenaries that are to be organised every morning.

RTHCampaign - PHASE II

Following some years of coordinating PHM’s Global Right to Health Campaign (RTHC), a Commission was set up in December 2009, tasked with defining the next phase for the global campaign. The Commission was asked to move the campaign from assessment phase to mobilisation and to propose ways for better integration of the RTH within PHM programmes. The Commission has proposed that the RTH be one of the overarching paradigm for PHM globally and proposed actions to more effectively use the RTH for movement building, focusing on networking, mobilisation and on capacity building.

Self-organized workshops

 

SELF ORGANISED ACTIVITIES

Free Trade Agreement with EU threatens health services in the Philippines

 

The Aquino government is close to sealing a partnership cooperation agreement (a prerequisite for a free trade agreement or FTA) with the European Union (EU) that, among others, commits to liberalizing trade and investments and loosening rules on intellectual property rights (IPRs). According to IBON, the proposed EU-PH FTA is a practical surrender of national sovereignty as the Aquino government has given up economic protection needed for self-reliance and national development.

 

Cuban experience with Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation

This article introduces Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation (CPPE), an approach to community participation and empowerment developed from the work of Rifkin, Laverack, Pérez, and others. More than just a methodology, CPPE is an approach which encourages comprehensive analysis and participation by various actors at local, regional, and national level in the planning and evaluation of health actions.