PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #38: Health workers and patients demand strong primary health care

[Health PD]

This fortnight Primary health care is of particular importance for
achieving Health for All. Yet, when it comes to implementing health policy
and funding health systems, primary health care is regularly ignored. After
years of cuts made to primary health care services in Madrid , health
workers and community groups are mobilizing in support of a stronger health
system. We br

Bulletin #38: Health workers and patients demand strong primary health care
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This fortnight

Primary health care is of particular importance for achieving Health for
All. Yet, when it comes to implementing health policy and funding health
systems, primary health care is regularly ignored.

After years of cuts made to primary health care services in Madrid
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/20/madrids-health-workers-and-people-unite-in-the-struggle-for-primary-health-care/>,
health workers and community groups are mobilizing in support of a stronger
health system. We bring an analysis of their organizing efforts and a photo
gallery from their protest held on November 13, attended by hundreds of
thousands of people.

Plans to centralize primary health care in Serbia
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/18/from-optimization-to-decentralization-of-healthcare/>
are causing concern among activists and public health experts. They warn
that the move will leave less room for local groups to take part in shaping
health policies and will not solve the chronic lack of funding.

At the same time, workers in the United Kingdom
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/14/uks-nhs-workers-gear-up-for-massive-action-demanding-fair-wages/>
are gearing up for industrial action to protect the National Health Service
and their workplaces from further deterioration. In the United States,
revolutionary health activist Mutulu Shakur
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/11/us-political-prisoner-mutulu-shakur-granted-parole/>
has finally been granted parole after spending over 36 years in prison.

The erosion of health workers’ rights should be addressed at all levels,
not only at the local level. An expert roundtable on developing international
norms
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/19/building-international-norms-for-protecting-health-workers/>
for the protection of health workers sketched out possibilities for action
at the level of global health governance.

Access to vaccines remains an equally pressing topic at the global level.
Recent research shows that equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/08/more-equitable-sharing-of-covid-19-vaccines-would-have-saved-a-million-lives-study/>
could have saved one million lives. This should be an important lesson in
managing future outbreaks, but the vaccine rollout for the global monkeypox
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/19/why-did-the-global-monkeypox-outbreak-disappear-from-the-news/>outbreak
shows that it has not been taken as seriously as it should have been.
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Featured articles

*Madrid’s health workers and people unite in the struggle for primary
health care
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/20/madrids-health-workers-and-people-unite-in-the-struggle-for-primary-health-care/>*

Following a massive protest coordinated by community groups mid-November,
primary-level physicians in Madrid will embark on a strike against the
deterioration of health care

*Why did the global monkeypox outbreak disappear from the news?*
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/19/why-did-the-global-monkeypox-outbreak-disappear-from-the-news/>

The global monkeypox outbreak was not contained and vaccines were not
adequately distributed. Instead, a handful of high-income countries
dictated the health of the globe

*From optimization to decentralization of healthcare
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/18/from-optimization-to-decentralization-of-healthcare/>*

A new plan to reform health care in Serbia leaves doubts about how much
optimization of rights and accessibility of care it will bring

*Building international norms for protecting health workers
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/19/building-international-norms-for-protecting-health-workers/>*

An expert roundtable consisting of health workers and trade unionists
discussed the role of international legal norms in protecting health
workers, and whether these can be improved by a new WHO instrument
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Short reads

*UK’s NHS workers gear up for massive action demanding fair wages
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/14/uks-nhs-workers-gear-up-for-massive-action-demanding-fair-wages/>*

The National Health Service (NHS) and its workers, already overworked due
to the COVID-19 crisis, are up in arms against austerity amid the ongoing
cost of living crisis

*US political prisoner Mutulu Shakur granted parole
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/11/us-political-prisoner-mutulu-shakur-granted-parole/>*

After over 36 years in prison, movement elder, political prisoner, and
revolutionary health worker Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole with less
than six months to live

*More equitable sharing of COVID-19 vaccines would have saved a million
lives: study
<https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/08/more-equitable-sharing-of-covid-19-vaccines-would-have-saved-a-million-lives-study/>*

It had been widely assumed that the disparity in vaccine distribution led
to a loss of lives during the pandemic. But the new research has come out
with an estimate of the global loss, which could be helpful in planning for
future pandemics
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Madrid protests for primary health care
Protest in support of quality primary health care in Madrid, November 13,
2022. Credits: Leticia Sanchez (1), Plataforma de centros de salud de
Madrid (2), Unificando las luchas (3), Médicos y TS-Madrid (4-6),
Plataforma de vecinos y vecinas de Arganzuela (7), Sindicato de Inquilinas
e Inquilinos (8)
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