In the run up to the British General election on June 8, the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, has published the most radical manifesto of any major party in many decades. In doing so they have succeeded in generating a real political debate; arguing that austerity is a (...)
Catalonia is one of the first autonomous communities to have implemented austerity policies in the domain of health: closure of hospitals, operating rooms, emergency services, night care, some health centres, payment of one euro per prescription and privatization of certain health services, (...)
HEALTH POLICY REFORM – GLOBAL HEALTH VERSUS PRIVATE PROFIT BY JOHN LISTER PUBLISHED BY LIBRI PUBLICATIONS AT £22.00 JUNE 2013.
John Lister’s new book is an impressively researched 346-page book with 64 pages of bibliography. It is a comprehensive update of his first book on this subject published (...)
This contribution was made on behalf of the French delegation to the conference of the European Network against the Privatization and Commercialization of Health and Social Protection held in Brussels on March 15, 2013.
The basis of the health policy of the European Union (EU) is the Treaty of (...)
The term “healthism” is used in two different ways. In the more neutral or positive sense, it just refers to self-care, and if you do a web search for “healthism,” some of the sites you’ll find simply offer information about nutrition, exercise, home remedies, things like that. But the term also has (...)
Annie Thébaud-Mony Honorary Director of the Inserm
Madam Minister,
Madame Cécile Duflot Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing, Hotel de Castries 72 rue de Varenne – 75 007 Paris
In your letter of the 20th of July, 2012, you informed me formally of my nomination to the Legion of (...)
If the various European Union Treaties do not specify the direct competence of EU institutions in the area of health protection, for around twenty years a challenge to social rights and benefits in this area has been observable in all member countries. These rights, in some countries such as (...)
Last November in Katowice (Poland), a European conference was held on the defence of public health and social care systems. It was decided to call a new conference which will be held on May 12-13 in Paris, to continue our analysis and establish joint mobilizations.
Everywhere in Europe, the (...)
This article is based on one of the reports at the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. See (ESSF article 22173): Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a public health service and (article 22172): (...)
There is an increasing fightback against the attacks on public health services and their funding in the countries of the European Union. These attacks, even if they appear to be different because of the diversity of existing health care systems, are coordinated by the institutions of the (...)
This article is based on one of the reports at the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. The European conference for the defence of a public health service and Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a (...)
On the initiative of the Free trade union “August 80” of Poland, trade-union, community and political activists, involved in defence of the health service of six European countries, Poland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and Sweden, met in Amsterdam May 7th and 8th, 2011.
We noted the (...)
This article is based on one of the reports at the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. See (ESSF article 22173): Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a public health service and (article 22172): (...)
This article is based on one of the reports at the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. See (ESSF article 22173): Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a public health service and (article 22172): (...)
This article is based on one of the reports at the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. See (ESSF article 22173): Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a public health service and (article 22172): (...)
This report opened the European healthworkers conference, held in the International Institute for Research and Education in May 2011. See (ESSF article 22173): Statement from the European Conference for the defence of a public health service and (article 22172): European conference for the (...)
Since AIDS was first identified among gay men in the USA in 1981, the association of HIV has led to global stigmatization of sex between men, and a repathologizing of homosexuality.
Lesbian/gay activists have sometimes dropped other lesbian/gay political work in face of the urgency of the (...)
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review Press in the US and Fernwood Books in Canada. The book provides a path-breaking assessment of health (...)
"At least I hope he’s an expert. The piece below by Frank Cantaloup is translated from the NPA site and questions the French government’s decision to spend one billion Euros on its vaccination programme.
There’s no truck with homeopathy, herbal tea, astrology or any of that nonsense on this (...)
Would one measure the riskiness of diseases by the number of publications in the press, which deal with them, one could come to the conclusion, that the so-called swine-flu is at the moment the worldwide biggest threat to public health. But this is obviously nonsense.
Epidemics and pandemics (...)
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