<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alison Katz</b> <a href="mailto:katz.alison@gmail.com">katz.alison@gmail.com</a><br></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Prospects for a Genuine Revival of Primary Health Care: Through the Visible Hand of Social Justice Rather than the Invisible Hand of the Market. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Abstract Part I</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">In this two-part article, the prospects for a genuine revival of the social justice project of “Health for All by the Year 2000” launched by WHO and UNICEF in 1978 at Alma Ata in the ex-Soviet Union, are explored with reference (Part I) to the World Health Report 2008, entitled <i>Primary Health Care: Now More than Ever</i> and to the <i>Report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health</i>, also published in 2008; and (Part II) to <i>Global Health Watch 2: the Alternative World Health Report</i> and the perspectives of anti-capitalist, real socialist, environmental and people’s movements for economic and social justice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The reports are reviewed in terms of the original values and principles of Alma Ata (social justice and human rights) and the structural foundations of the PHC project (a new international economic order and emancipatory development of decolonized countries). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">A genuine revival of the PHC project and Health for All - which is its implicit objective - will not be possible unless the multiple crises that we are confronting today – in energy, water, food, finance, the environment, science, information and democracy - are recognized as capitalist crises and addressed in these terms. In short, the invisible hand of the market must be replaced by the visible hand of social justice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Abstract Part II</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">In a two-part article (the first part in IJHS Vol.39:3), the author explores the prospects for a genuine revival of Primary Health Care as announced by the World Health Organization in 2008, with reference (in Part II) briefly, to <i>Global Health Watch 2</i> published by the People’s Health Movement, Medact and Equity Gauge Alliance, and, in more depth, to the perspectives and positions of social and people’s movements most closely aligned with the original values and principles of Alma Ata (social justice and human rights) and the structural foundations of the Primary Health Care project (a new international economic order and emancipatory development of decolonized countries). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">It is argued that the social justice struggle for health cannot be limited to the curbing of capitalism’s excesses. The multiple crises that we are confronting today – in energy, water, food, the environment, finance, science, information and democracy must be recognized as capitalist crises and addressed in these terms. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Particular attention is devoted to ideology, including the distortion of human nature and society under neoliberal capitalism, and to moral foundations of Health for All, questions which are rarely discussed in this context but which are central to political action towards human wellbeing, spiritually, intellectually and physically. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Not only must the invisible hand of the market be replaced by the visible hand of social justice but the single ideology proclaiming the “end of history” and, by implication, the end of politics and political struggle must be exposed and rejected as neoliberal, totalitarian propaganda. In line with the spirit and intention of the UN Charter, declared by the peoples of the world, PHC was - and still is - a political project for a fair and a safe world in which Health for All is both possible and necessary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Full reference: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Prospects for a Genuine Revival of Primary Health Care: Through the Visible Hand of Social Justice Rather than the Invisible Hand of the Market. Parts I and II. <i>International Journal of Health Services</i>, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 567-585, 2009 and Volume 40, Number 1, Pages 119-137, 2010.</span></p>
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