<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Linda Shuro</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linda@phmovement.org">linda@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#F2F2F2" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-ZA"><div class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766WordSection1"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;background:#f2f2f2;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" width="100%" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766templateHeader" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt 0cm" valign="top"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt" valign="top"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 6.75pt 0cm 6.75pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><u></u><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/399199cf226611d1f24864ea6/images/b303b2e8-8112-4194-ac8b-cbef65433f15.png" width="564" align="left"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766templateBody" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt 0cm" valign="top"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><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Sanders</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"> (School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Global Co-Chair Peoples Health Movement) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:navy">Improving food literacy in primary health care</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br></span><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Professor Carlos A. Monteiro</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"> </span></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">(Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:navy">Trade agreements and NCDs</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br></span><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Dr Belinda Townsend</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"> (Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:navy">Reducing Harmful Corporate Influences on NCDs: What role for public health?</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br></span><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Professor Nicholas Freudenberg</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"> (Distinguished Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health and Hunter College, City University of New York)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Facilitation</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br></span><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Professor Fran Baum</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"> (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Background</span></b><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">As we commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration, it is necessary to enrich the fundamental tenets of the Declaration in the light of new challenges in health and healthcare that confront us. In 1978 the major preoccupation for health systems related to control and elimination of threats posed by communicable diseases. 40 years on, while communicable diseases continue to pose challenges in many parts of the world, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for a major proportion of burden of disease in most countries, including many low and middle income countries.<br><br>There is a tendency to reason that control of NCDs require ‘high-tech’ solutions, best provided at secondary and tertiary levels of care. However, experience shows that, as in the case of communicable diseases, the burden of NCDs can be minimized by effective primary health care. To address NCDs at the primary level of care it is necessary to incorporate specific strategies, trained human resources (including community health workers), and equipment and infrastructure, keeping in mind the necessity to promote early detection of NCDs and disease prevention and health promotion interventions.<br><br>Moreover the broader determinants of NCDs need attention within the framework of the overall concept of PHC. A new economic order, as envisaged in the Alma Ata declaration, needs to address the role played by the global trade regime and that of TNCs in the food and beverages sector. This broader concept of PHC also requires consideration of the role of governments in regulating to ensure environments that substantially reduce the risk of developing NCDs.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>  <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none;border-top:solid #999999 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;background:#f2f2f2;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766templateFooter" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt 0cm" valign="top"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><table class="m_-8877647289262993238m_5436863660110511876m_-4616600673110130934m_7294460140140245152m_8221892810543928766MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:125%"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">If you have any questions - please contact the PHM global secretariat on <a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br><br><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">People's Health Movement - PHM</span></i><i><br><br><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">PHM is a global network working with grassroots health activists, civil society organizations and academic institutions in over 70 countries to support local action for health equity and sustainable development </span></i></i><br><br><br>  <u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><br></div>
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