PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)

[Jo Kreysler]

This is quite true. However, it is not just 'disease/health categories'( sanitation, nutrition ....) as defined by the self-styled world authorities in global/public health. Poverty has in each local and historical situation its own well-defined and unmistaken phenomenology ( e.g. urban sanitation problems in African mega-cities have a different face from lacking water for sanitation in the Sahara....). The CATEGORIZATION in technical notions by  health authorities on all levels  together with the "technical consensus" it achieves has a negative impact on the understanding of HEALTH AS HUMAN RIGHT, and becomes quickly a quantifiable and colorless entity to deal with by  health bureaucrats. 
We committed to PEOPLE's health need to stand away from this trap.

JOACHIM KREYSLER MD., MPH., 
EPIDEMIOLOGIST/NUTRITIONIST/ TROPICAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST,  ex WHO and IFRC staff.
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:59:12 -0700
From: cschuftan at phmovement.org
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Subject: PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)

   From:    kavbha at gmail.com


 The exhortation to come out of silosby IMAXI Cooperative is very valid. For health care of the poor and the marginalised, the basic standard considerations remain the same as ever - Nutrition, Sanitation, Water Supply and Information. All else follows. Somewhere along the debates there is a progressive narrowing of focus.Along with the world bodies, some of the peoples' bodies too seem to have forgotten that health care is not only disease management. 


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