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Collaboration and links to other sites
Health, Health Care, and Health Communications
- Teaching
Aids at Low Cost: TALC’s main objective is to
promote the health of children and advance medical knowledge
and teaching in the UK and throughout the world by providing
and developing educational material. TALC is a good source
for obtaining David Werner's books in Europe and around
the world.
- The
World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized
agency for health. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution,
is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible
level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution
as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- UNICEF
(United Nations Children's Fund) is mandated by the United
Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection
of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and
to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
- UNDP
is the UN’s global development network, an organization
advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge,
experience and resources to help people build a better life.
- Hesperian
Foundation distributes David Werner's first three books
as well as other self help books patterned after them. They
also maintain a translation
list of Where There Is No Doctor, Helping Health Workers
Learn, and Disabled Village Children.
- Child-to-Child:
The distinguishing characteristics of Child-to-Child are
the direct involvement of children in the process of health
education and promotion and the nature of their involvement.
The most effective programmes are those that involve children
in decision-making rather than merely using them as communicators
of adult messages. However, whenever children are involved
as partners in this way, change is demanded in current structures
and methodologies in health and education.
- Voluntary
Health Association of India (VHAI) is a federation of
24 State Voluntary Health Associations, linking together
more than 4000 health care institutions and grassroots level
community health programs spread across the country. VHAI's
primary objective is to make health a reality for the people
of India by promoting community health, social justice &
human rights related to the provision and distribution of
health services in India.
Politics of Health
- Politics
of Health Knowledge Network (www.politicsofhealth.org)
is an interactive, action oriented web site coordinated
by HealthWrights. Its goal is to provide, clear, well organized,
well referenced, information about the man-made, political
and macro-economic causes of poverty and poor health. The
Network analyzes different issues, placing each topic in
the context of the larger picture. It gives examples of
positive alternatives, provides suggestions for coordinated
action for change, and lists relevant groups to contact
and work with. We need your
volunteer help in building and expanding this site.
Please contact:
volunteer@politicsofhealth.org.
- People's
Health Movement: 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 the strategy to
achieve these priorities. Be sure to get on the PHA
Exchange List.
- HealthWrights has worked closely the Third
World Network (based in Malaysia). TWN publishes articles
and books on the politics of health, and on disability issues,
to some of which HealthWrights has contributed.
- International
Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of 60 organizations
in 25 countries. Works to educate people and organize action
concerning the dangers of the current paradigm of economic
globalization, which puts the profits of giant corporations
before basic human and environmental needs. Based in San
Francisco. Many excellent publications.
- Equinet,
the Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a
network on research, civil society, and health sector organizations.
Equinet produces an information-packed online Equinet
Newsletter, which although focused on Africa has many
articles of global significance.
- Health
Action International (HAI) is an informal network of
more than 150 consumer, health, development and other public
interest groups involved in health and pharmaceutical issues
in more than 70 countries around the world. An important
watchdog group that monitors the pharmaceutical industry
and promotes an Essential Drug Policy.
- Healthlink
Worldwide works to improve the health and well-being
of disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in developing
countries, by working in partnership to strengthen the local
provision, use and impact of health communication and to
support advocacy initiatives to increase participation and
inclusion.
- Right
to Health Care aims to achieve "a broad popular
understanding and resounding demand for official recognition
of the right to health care for all Americans."
Disability and Rehabilitation
- Justin
Hines is a remarkable and heartful singer/songwriter
from Canada, who is disabled with Larsen Syndrome (a rare
genetic joint condition). Examples of his musis can be downloaded
from his website.
- HealthWrights works closely with Project
PROJIMO (Program of Rehabilitation Organized by Disabled
Youth of Western Mexico). PROJIMO grew out of Project
Piaxtla, a villager-run health care network in the mountains
of western Mexico. Project Piaxtla, an early pioneer of
community-based Primary Health Care, was active from the
mid 1960s into the early 1990s. PROJIMO
has recently launched its own web site.
- Masválidos
is a Community-Based Rehabilitation program in Culiacán,
Mexico with close ties to PROJIMO.
- The World
Institute on Disability (WID) is a nonprofit, international
public-policy center dedicated to carrying out cutting edge
research on disability issues and overcoming obstacles to
independent living.
- Disability
World A bimonthly web-zine of international news and
views. Dedicated to advancing an exchange of information
and research about the international independent living
movement of people with disabilities. The web-zine is part
of IDEAS for the New Millennium, funded by the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
- The Inter-American
Institute on Disability (IID) acts as a catalyst and
a broker, forging partnerships to improve cooperation for
disability and development in the Inter-American Region
and in other Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.
- The International
Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI)
collects disability-related Internet resources, including
resources that may be helpful to the disability community.
- Disabled
Peoples' International (DPI) is a grassroots, cross-disability
network with member organizations in over 158 countries,
over half of which are in the developing world, promoting
the Human Rights of People with Disabilities through full
participation, equalization of opportunity, and development.
- Handicap
International strives to intervene as rapidly as possible
in favor of the handicapped and the most vulnerable populations
wherever and whenever armed conflict has destroyed existing
systems of assistance and solidarity, where there are severe
economic problems, and where the association’s expertise
in prevention and socioeconomic development is requested.
- The
Institute on Independent Living serves self-help organizations
of disabled people who work for equal opportunities, self-determination
and self-respect. They offer training materials, technical
assistance and information on personal assistance, advocacy,
access, legislation and peer support.
We also support these sites:
Foundation To Encourage Potential
Of Disabled Persons
Getting It Right - A Volunteer Handbook
is a free publication which evaluates both the rewards
and foibles of work as either a domestic or overseas
volunteer. If you are thinking of becoming a volunteer,
then this guide for volunteers is made for you. Check
it out at www.volunteer.infothai.com.
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