HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences. 

HealthWrights focuses on these activities:

• Community health: mainly in the 3rd World in the South (mainly Mexico), but increasingly in disadvantaged communities in the North. 

• Disability issues, rights and technologies, with leadership taken by disabled persons and their families. 
HealthWrights works closely with PROJIMO (Program of Rehabilitation Organized by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico).
 
• Child-to-Child helping children discover ways to help protect the health and well-being of their younger brothers and sisters, and other children. 

 
• Critical analysis of the man-made causes of poor health, and awareness raising to mobilize a broad-based grassroots movement to work toward fairer and healthier social structures. 

 
• Networking among progressive health, disability, human rights, environmental, and other groups, to work for social change and stronger participation of under-represented groups. 

 
• Development and distribution of educational materials on health and human rights, presented clearly and simply so that people at all educational levels can understand them. 

• These include all five of David Werner's books, available in both English and Spanish: 

• Where There Is No Doctor
   
• Helping Health Workers Learn
  by David Werner and Bill Bower
   
• Disabled Village Children
   
• Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival
  by David Werner and David Sanders, with Jason Weston, Steve Babb and Bill Rodriguez
   
• Nothing About Us Without Us

 

• Also published by Healthwrights: 
• Newsletter from the Sierra Madre with reports from the field and essays on the politics of health (sent to people in over 130 countries).
• Politics of Health Knowledge Network web site.
• Numerous Papers by David Werner

Collaboration and links to other sites:

• HealthWrights works closely with the International People's Health Council (based in Nicaragua), the People's Health Assembly Movement and the Third World Network (based in Malaysia) and ongoingly publishes articles and books on the politics of health and on disability issues. 

 
• HealthWrights works closely with Project PROJIMO (Program of Rehabilitation Organized by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico) and with Project Piaxtla (a villager-run health care network in the mountains of western Mexico).

How you can help--  We have a list of ways that you can make a difference here, in Mexico, and in many other parts of the world our work reaches.