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

[linda green]

At the recent meeting of the American Public Health Association the local affiliate (Metropolitan Washington Public Health Assn) held a rally with a focus on social determinants of disease with Wash DC as the example. We marched to Verizon center (sports arena) and heard from workers there, spoke about housing with AIDS focus, and jobs at a large Clark construction site. Some spoke on capitalism and need for an egalitarian society including communist principles. 
 
Out of the Silos and Into the Streets, Public Health Workers No Longer Retreat 
Out of the Silos and Into the Streets, Public Health Workers Turn Up the Heat


Linda D. Green MD
 
 
 




From: jokreysler at hotmail.com
To: cschuftan at phmovement.org; phm-exchange at phm.phmovement.org
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 14:41:44 +0000
Subject: Re: PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)





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
To: phm-exchange at phm.phmovement.org
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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