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The People's Health Movement
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global coalition of grassroots and health activist organisations dedicated to addressing the burden of preventable disease globally but in particular that carried by developing countries. The goal of the People’s Health Movement is to re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international policy-making with comprehensive primary health care as a key strategy to achieve these priorities.
The purposes and orientation of the PHM are spelled out clearly in the People’s Charter for Health PHM Charter. We aim to entrench the right to health as a basic human right. We aim to tackle the broader determinants of health (globalisation, environmental degradation, violence and war). We see a people-centred health sector with strong popular participation as keys to these goals.
The PHM affirms that the vision of the Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care is still relevant if the structured unfairness of the current global regime is to be reformed as part of creating the conditions for better health. This perspective has a particular relevance for rich world countries such as Australia who are beneficiaries of the disposition of resources, ideologies and power. This is the big challenge facing the PHM in Australia.
People's Health Assembly 2005The Second Peoples Health Assembly is scheduled to be held in July 2005 in Cuenca, Ecuador. |
NEW! Upcoming LaunchesCome and find out more about PHM globally and engage with the development process of PHM in Australia. PHM NSW Workshop and Launch PHM Vic Launch and Information Night For more information see News and Events. PHM South Australia launched in September 2004. See the SA Main Page for a short report. |
