“A Political Economy Analysis of the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Health Workers: Making power and gender visible in the work of providing care”

PHM Health Systems Thematic Circle collaborated with Yale Global Health Justice Partnership to develop a commentary on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on health workers. The commentary is titled “A Political … Read more

Webinar: 20th July 2021 (Tuesday) 11 AM UTC- “The Struggles of Community Health Workers at the Covid Frontline: Essential but Unrecognised”

For those who may have missed the webinar, the recording of the webinar has been uploaded on PHM Youtube  channel here- https://youtu.be/K6CHtDXF3og To read the report on the webinar, click … Read more

Challenging Patent Barriers in Accessing New TB Treatments — Webinar Recording

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the foremost causes of death and disability in developing countries. It is a curable disease, and yet it claims about 1.5 million lives each year. Developing … Read more

“Health Systems in the context of Covid-19”- Final Case Studies submissions from Countries

In September 2020, the Health Systems Thematic Circle has put out a call (link) to develop case studies on health systems in the context of Covid-19, under the different sub-themes and guidelines. We received very rich contribution … Read more

Resistance_to_privatisation

Page building under process “Struggle Against Outsourcing of Diagnostic Services in Government Facilities: Strategies and Lessons From a Campaign Led by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement) in Chhattisgarh, India”. … Read more

Corporate_watch

Page building under process “When the market becomes deadly – How pressures towards privatisation of health and long-term care put Europe on a poor footing for a pandemic”. Corporate Europe Observatory. Jan 2021.  https://corporateeurope.org/en/2021/01/when-market-becomes-deadly The article … Read more

Health_Workers

Page building under process Health workers’ right to strike under threat, People’s Dispatch, August 2021 Across the globe, health workers push back against informalization, austerity and poor conditions, People’s Dispatch, … Read more

Privatization

Page building under process Privatisation Uncertainity and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care. Kenneth J Arrow. 1963.  https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/health_class/Readings/Lecture01/arrow.pdf Resources on Universal Health Coverage can be found on this UHC page- … Read more