PHM is organising an online session on Universal Health Coverage during the Be-cause health conference Breaking taboos in Global Health. UHC has come to be taken as the main health strategy for our times. The … Read more
This Correspondence titled “Flawed prescription for PHC financing” was submitted to The Lancet Global Health on 21 April 2022 in response to the article titled “The Lancet Global Health Commission … Read more
A fortnightly bulletin published by the People’s Health Movement and international media organisation People’s Dispatch. We focus on the politics of health and struggle for the right to health, including actions … Read more
Téléchargez l’appel en FRANÇAIS Descarga el texto en ESPAÑOL Download the call in ENGLISH About Global Health Watch (GHW) GHW is a collaboration of multiple activist academics and NGOs, defining … Read more
UHC dominates the discourse on global health policy today. It can be interpreted in multiple ways, but its dominant discourse seems to be favouring market based neoliberal reforms. We are … Read more
Today, when private actors see the health care system more and more as a market, we deem it important to defend and promote public health care. Why ? In this … Read more
From primary health care to universal health coverage—one step forward and two steps back Primary health care (PHC), codified at the historic 1978 Alma Ata Conference, was advocated as the … Read more
Decisions that influence health and access to health care are necessarily a matter of ethics. This paper attempts to examine current budgetary allocations and policy shifts in India from the … Read more
Insurance-based systems only cover the entitled people as defined by the law, and among them, those who have paid their contributions. This principle has a fundamental limitation towards UHC, as … Read more
Ana Vracar from PHM Europe writes that “It is crucial for Croatia to recognize that the chosen approach to ensuring health care is incompatible with actually providing healthcare for everyone. … Read more