Struggle for Health: Short Course for Health Activists: Brazil, September 2008
Our friends at the People’s Health Movement have just announced the next short course for health activists, being offered in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 7-20, 2008. This course will be offered in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
The curriculum is an interesting one, and can be viewed at the International People’s Health University (IPHU) website. Of particular interest is the Resource Library at the IPHU website which includes a very rich selection of readings, Powerpoints and other materials (including videos) on the course content.
The curriculum includes:
- the struggle for health: achievements, strategies and new directions
- working with communities and with grass roots health organizations
- comprehensive primary health care: achievements, lessons and new
directions - the political economy of health: globalization, the WTO, the IMF and
the WB; local issues and global pressures - the right to health: principles, achievements and new directions
- people’s health and the environmental struggle
- research: part of the problem and part of the solution
- social determinants of health (poverty, oppression and hierarchy)
- alienation and exclusion
- racism and sexism
The 11 day course is presented by the International People’s Health University (IPHU) and the People’s Health Movement (PHM) in association with the School of Public Health of Rio Grande do Sul. The teaching faculty is drawn from Latin America and beyond. Priority is given to students from the Southern Cone. For more information about IPHU and the Porto Alegre Short Course go to www.phmovement.org/iphu. Further inquiries should be directed to the Course Coordinators (porto@phmovement.org).
The short course is offered periodically in various venues and languages. It was, for instance, offered at the US Social Forum in June of 2007.
[This entry was updated on 7/13/2008]
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