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Humanitarianism ‐ Moving Beyond Medical Rescue to Poverty Reduction, Sustainable Development and Justice?

Presentation at the 13th Berlin Humanitarian Congress, Oct 28th 2011

Dr David McCoy, Peoples Health Movement, NHS London, Centre for International Health and Development, University College London

Good morning

It is a real privilege to be able to address this Congress. And my sincere thanks to the organisers of this conference for inviting me to speak here.

Climate Change and Health

Climate change is the largest threat to global health in history. Health systems, on the other hand, exist to promote, protect and improve people’s health, and to prevent and treat disease. As large, resource and energy-intensive organizations that employ many people, health systems produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. Therefore, they contribute to climate change, raising the paradox that, on balance, they may, inadvertently, do people’s health more harm than good in the long term.

National Health Insurance could improve health, create jobs and mitigate climate change

The advent of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme opens up a political space to campaign for a health service that will best address South Africa’s health crisis and reduce the extreme inequities between poor and rich, rural and urban, and public sector and private health service users.

Doctors for Global Health 16th Annual General Assembly, July 29-31, 2011

Dear friends of Doctors for Global Health,

Our 16th Annual General Assembly will be held this summer in sunny Los Angeles from July 29th to 31st!

Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME) available for physicians- see registration page for details.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

If you have not yet registered, click the link below:

http://www.dghonline.org/2011-ga-registration-application

COMMUNITY ACTION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:

Health Begins Where We Work, Live, and Play

Doctors for Global Health 16th Annual General Assembly

Lecture in Saskatoon--Tim Wise: White like me

Global healthcare and social justice