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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. <BR>
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Out of the Silos and Into the Streets, Public Health Workers No Longer Retreat <BR>
Out of the Silos and Into the Streets, Public Health Workers Turn Up the Heat<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV>Linda D. Green MD</DIV>
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From: jokreysler@hotmail.com<BR>To: cschuftan@phmovement.org; phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org<BR>Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 14:41:44 +0000<BR>Subject: Re: PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)<BR><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>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. <BR>We committed to PEOPLE's health need to stand away from this trap.<BR><BR>JOACHIM KREYSLER MD., MPH., EPIDEMIOLOGIST/NUTRITIONIST/ TROPICAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST, ex WHO and IFRC staff.<BR> 6 rue de la Dôle, CH 1203 GENEVE, SWITZERLAND MOB: 0041794045779, HOME: 0041223400851<BR><BR>
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:59:12 -0700<BR>From: cschuftan@phmovement.org<BR>To: phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org<BR>Subject: PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)<BR><BR> From: <A href="mailto:kavbha@gmail.com">kavbha@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>
<DIV class=ecxgmail_quote>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. <BR><BR>---<BR></DIV><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ PHM-Exchange People's Health Movement - To post, write to: PHM-Exchange@phm.phmovement.org - To view the archive, receive one weekly posting with all the week's postings, edit your subscription's options or unsubscribe, please go to the PHM-Exchange webpage: http://phm.phmovement.org/listinfo.cgi/phm-exchange-phmovement.org</DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________ PHM-Exchange People's Health Movement - To post, write to: PHM-Exchange@phm.phmovement.org - To view the archive, receive one weekly posting with all the week's postings, edit your subscription's options or unsubscribe, please go to the PHM-Exchange webpage: http://phm.phmovement.org/listinfo.cgi/phm-exchange-phmovement.org</DIV> </div></body>
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