PHM-Exch> Alternative Civil Society Declaration on Social Determinants of Health

[PHM Global Secretariat]

*Protecting the Right to Health through action on the Social Determinants of
Health*
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*A Declaration by Public Interest Civil Society Organisations and Social
Movements*
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

*URGENTLY REQUIRED ACTIONS BY MEMBER STATES AND WHO ON THE KEY AREAS*


   1. Implement *equity-based social protection* systems and maintain and
   develop effective *publicly provided and publicly financed health systems
   * that address the social, economic, environmental and behavioural
   determinants of health with a particular focus on reducing health
   inequities.
   2. Use *progressive taxation*, wealth taxes and the elimination of tax
   evasion to finance action on the social determinants of health.
   3. Recognise explicitly *the clout of finance capital*, its dominance of
   the global economy, and the origins and consequences of its periodic
   collapses.
   4. Implement appropriate international *tax mechanisms* to control *global
   speculation* and eliminate tax havens.
   5. Use health impact assessments to document the ways in which *unregulated
   and unaccountable transnational corporations* and financial institutions
   constitute barriers to Health for All.
   6. Recognise explicitly the ways in which the current structures of *global
   trade regulation shape health inequalities* and deny the right to health.
   7. Reconceptualise *aid for health* from high income countries as
an *international
   obligation* and reparation legitimately owed to developing countries
   under basic human rights principles.
   8. Enhance* democratic and transparent decision-making* and
   accountability at all levels of governance.
   9. Develop and adopt *a code of conduct *in relation to the management of
   *institutional conflicts of interest* in global health decision making.
   10. Establish, promote and resource participatory and action oriented
   monitoring systems that provide *disaggregated data on a range of social
   stratifiers* as they relate to health outcomes.

Read more >><http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/AlternativeCivilSocietyDeclaration20Sep.pdf>

This Alternative Declaration is endorsed, till the moment, by 22 civil
society public interest networks and more than a hundred of indivuals. More
signatures are being received evey minute. Endorse the declaration or share
your comments on globalsecretariat at phmovement.org
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