People's Charter for Health
The People’s Charter for Health (PCH)
The Charter is now the common tool of a worldwide citizen's movement committed to making the Alma-Ata dream a reality. We encourage and invite everyone who shares our concerns and aims to join us by endorsing the Charter. Read more >>
Principles of the People's Charter For Health
- The attainment of the highest possible level of health and well‐being is a fundamental human right, regardless of a person's colour, ethnic background, religion, gender, age, abilities, sexual orientation or class.
- The principles of universal, comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC), envisioned in the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration, should be the basis for formulating policies related to health. Now more than ever an equitable, participatory and intersectoral approach to health and health care is needed.
- Governments have a fundamental responsibility to ensure universal access to quality health care, education and other social services according to people’s needs, not according to their ability to pay.
- The participation of people and people's organisations is essential to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of all health and social policies and programmes.
- Health is primarily determined by the political, economic, social and physical environment and should, along with equity and sustainable development, be a top priority in local, national and international policy‐making.
Announcements
Your chance to make PHA3 a grass roots event!
PHA3 is approaching! A large number of activists from around the globe have already registered.
However, there is a shortage in funding for grassroots activists and community based organizations to participate. We appeal for contributions no matter how small or large to support participation of people from the South in the PHA3!
Please donate now following this link http://www.phmovement.org/en/pha3/donate
The PHA3 logo was developed following an international logo contest amongst PHM activists. PHM would like to thank the South African PHM student Coalition for organising this logo design contest and would like to thank everybody who submitted ideas.
During the logo design contest people were asked to bring their ideas for a PHA3 logo based on PHM's vision statement.
Equity, ecologically‐sustainable development and peace are at the heart of our vision of a better world ‐ a world in which a healthy life for all is a reality; a world that respects, appreciates and celebrates all life and diversity; a world that enables the flowering of people's talents and abilities to enrich each other; a world in which people's voices guide the decisions that shape our lives.
Vision of PHM
The winning logo was used as inspiration for the designer to develop the final logo. Out of that flowed a logo standing for togetherness, Ubuntu, community and solidarity. It is about finding solutions together and sharing stories, experiences and ideas to achieve health for all. It is about linking local with global and stands for one world where everybody has the opportunity to live a decent and healthy life.
