<div dir="ltr">All PHM circles should do this when national or regional elections take place!<br><div><br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ravi Narayan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chcravi@gmail.com">chcravi@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Deepak</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kumaraswamy.deepak@gmail.com" target="_blank">kumaraswamy.deepak@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>PHM India worked towards compiling the health issues that have been discussed as part of party manifestos for the current Indian elections. <br></div>
<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Background
</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">The Peoples Health Movement –India has been promoting health for
all policies through various forms of engagement with the health policy process
in the country since its inception in 2000. Various Innovative instruments of
engagement have been produced. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(i) <a href="http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/index.php?title=Indian_People%27s_Health_Charter_(2000)" target="_blank">The IndianPeoples Health charter</a> (2000) ; </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(ii) Critique
of the Draft National Health Policy (NHP) 2001,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(iii) The
right to health care hearings and peoples tribunals in 2003-04; </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(iv) <b><a href="http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/index.php?title=Health_For_All_Now!_A_People%27s_Health_Resource_Book" target="_blank">ThePeoples Health Source Book</a></b> (January 2004)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(v) The
policy brief entitled “ <b><a href="http://docs.aidindia.org/Documents/AID-Resources/Ebooks/Peoples_Health_Manifesto_JSA_2004.pdf" target="_blank">Save Public Health- Ensure Health for All NOW</a></b>!” in
2004. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(vi) The dialogue with representatives of the political parties before the 2004
election and the preparation of handout of demands towards Health For All- for
public rallies and distribution; </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(vii) Another
policy brief in April 2005 entitled “ <b>Moving towards Right to Health care</b>”;
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">(viii) A <b><a href="http://docs.aidindia.org/Documents/AID-Resources/Ebooks/Peoples_Health_Manifesto_JSA_2009.pdf" target="_blank">PeoplesHealth manifesto 2009</a></b> which was a call to all political parties to include
Health For all Now- oriented policies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> Other additional forms of engagement have also been pursued.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p><b>The 2014
Election</b>
<p class="MsoNormal">The current 2014 election
has also seen an active engagement
by PHM India. In early March, JSA released an updated people’s health manifesto with
19 well articulated policy recommendations towards health for all and universal
health coverage. This was circulated to various contacts in different parties
and through various social networks and followed up with a dialogue with some
representatives of political parties trade unions and movements in New Delhi at
the end of March. </p>
<p style="margin-left:27pt">We have recently collated the health sections and health
related commitments of various political parties in their current, recently
announced party manifestos and some very significant developments seemed to
have taken place as far as health is concerned. <br></p>
<p style="margin-left:27pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Taken together these health issues in
the current election manifestos definitely indicate a significant interest in
the evolving universal health coverage and care debate putting a great onus on
civil society networks and circles in active
engagement, advocacy and policy dialogue in the months and years ahead with
which ever combination of political alliance emerge on the national scene. The focus of our engagement should be on implementable agendas. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> See the link :<span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> <span> </span></span><a href="http://sochara.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/health-in-manifestos-2014.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-repeat:initial initial">http://sochara.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/health-in-manifestos-2014.pdf</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>State
Level Efforts </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Some state
level efforts at engagements with
political parties and suggestion of health issues for manifestos has also taken
place during this elections. See: <a href="http://sochara.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/tamilnadu-peoples-health-manifesto-2014.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-repeat:initial initial">http://sochara.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/tamilnadu-peoples-health-manifesto-2014.pdf</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Additional
coverage </b></p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>BMJ article -<b>Expert views: what the next
Indian government should do for health and healthcare</b>, BMJ 2014;348:g2479
doi: 10.1136/bmj.g2479 (Published 3 April 2014).
<p style="margin-left:1.2in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Lancet article -<b>Health</b> <b>gets greater
attention in the 2014 Indian elections</b>, The Lancet, Volume 383, Issue 9925,
Pages 1281 - 1282, (Published 12 April 2014).</p>
<p style="margin-left:1.2in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Special article on Dr. Narendra Gupta- a mfc
/JSA health activist who is an election candidate of AAP in Rajasthan -<b>An activist doctor joins the electoral fray
in Rajasthan</b>. <span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span>BMJ 2014;348 doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2814" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2814</a> (Published
15 April 2014)</p></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>