From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The World
Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) -</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN"> <u></u><u></u>Addis Ababa<u></u><u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">At the conclusion of the
13th World Congress on Public Health, held 22 – 27 April 2012 in Addis
Abeba (Ethiopia), <br>
the WFPHA issued the:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">Addis Ababa Declaration, a call on Global Health Equity<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="EN">…….a
call to act on closing some of the critical gaps in global health and
well-being…….<u></u><u></u></span></font></i></p>
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</span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">Available online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/JMP6oS" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/JMP6oS</span></font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“…….This
includes working across sectors and disciplines and in true partnership with
communities to:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">1. Promote and attain social
justice and equity in health by acting through a ‘Social Determinants of
Health’ approach;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">2. Accelerate the attainment
of national and international development goals by building and redistributing
resources to strengthen international, national and local capacity and
leadership in public health;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">3. Ensure that better
context-specific, comprehensive and equitable targets covering universal health
coverage and health for all are integrated into and made more visible within
the MDGs as soon as possible;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">4. Enhance and strengthen,
both numerically and in capability, the public health workforce, in addition to
developing new and effective strategies to retain qualified health
professionals;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">5. Combat fraud and
corruption, as these are major determinants of health that affect all, but
especially the poor and vulnerable;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">6. Recognize physical and
mental disabilities and injury prevention as critical components of a public
health approach to health equity; and,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">7. Fulfill their financial
pledges in respect of the MDGs and to, in addition, fulfill their pledges with
respect to the Paris Declaration and to the political declarations on
Non-Communicable Diseases and the Social Determinants of Health……”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">An article about the 13th
World Congress on Public Health and the Addis Abab Declaration appeared in the
April 30 issue of the Huffington Post.<br>
</span></font><i><b><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN">"Please mind the gap..."<br>
</span></font></i></b></i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">by Dr. Peter Byass, Professor of
Global Health and Director of the <u></u>Umea<u></u> Centre
for Global Health Research (<u></u><u></u>Sweden<u></u><u></u>).
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Available a: <a href="http://huff.to/Je2LrC" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://huff.to/Je2LrC</span></font></a> <br>
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