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What's New
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NEW!
HEALTH
AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE 21st CENTURY:
Envisioning a Future –Can Health for All be Achieved
in a Free Market Economy?
In October, 2009, David Werner was invited to
Japan for a speaking tour linked to launching the Japanese
translation of his book, Where There Is No Doctor.
While there, he delivered this new paper, in which he explores
the primary obstacles to health in the free market paradigm,
and suggests ways that we might move forward during these
exceptional challenging times.
NEW!
Workshops
For and With Disabled Children in Colombia
In Colombia in February 2008, David Werner led two hands-on
workshops with Stichting Liliane Fonds on creating and modifying
assistive equipment for children. The primary purpose of these
workshops was to expand the skills of Liliane mediators who
work in the area. These workshops are vividly captured in
an exciting narrated full-length slide show, with many examples
and photos.
This new resource is a great teaching/learning aid, with
many original ideas. As with all our work, we put the disabled
persons and their families at the center of the creative process.
Available in English and Spanish as a CD for your Windows
PC.
NEW!
Health in Harmony:
A Program in Borneo that Links Community and
Environmental Health a new booklet by David
Werner. Health in Harmony is an innovative new program on
the island of Borneo. This pioneering program is crucially
relevant to our imperiled times because it strives to address
both the pressing health needs of the local villagers and
the environmental protection of endangered tropical forests.
In a holistic manner, it combines community-based health care
with the overarching issues of deforestation, global warming,
and the conservation of the intricate balance of life.
NEW!
Wondrous Toy
Workshop: Hanni's Inspiring Life and Her Toys
That Anyone Can Make, a new book by
Nancy B. Miller, with a forward by David Werner. The Wondrous
Toy Workshop is a practical how-to-do-it book about making
toys. It is also an inspiring story about helping disadvantaged
children build worthwhile lives for themselves, realize their
creative potential, and gain self-esteem.
NEW!
Three new CBR Slide Shows on CD/DVD!
In 2005, David Werner visited India where he conducted
Community Based Rehabilitation workshops in three regions.
These workshops provided material for three new extensive
slide shows, each narrated, detailing the interactive process
of the workshop participants, the disabled individuals, and
their families. These heartwarming, yet pragmatic stories
show how, by working together and putting the disabled person
at the center of the process, assistive devices can be tailor
made to better fit his or her needs. Order
the CD or DVD.
Nuevo!
¡Boletínes
de la Sierra Madre por Internet! (Newsletters in Spanish online!)
We are putting our Newsletters from the Sierra Madre in Spanish
online.
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Work continues daily on
our exciting new web site: the 'Politics of Health
Knowledge Network' This user-friendly information-sharing
tool is designed to help concerned people better understand
and actively respond to the most urgent health-related
issues confronting humanity. In addition to solid
facts and well analyzed data, the site will provide
examples of healthier, more equitable, more sustainable
alternatives.
The Politics of Health Knowledge Network is being
continually updated. New to the site are interactive
forums and many new graphics and images that bring
the site to life. In addition, we have added a public
area where anyone may contribute relevant articles.
We invite your participation. |
HELP
NEEDED! To
make this Knowledge Network a more effective tool for change,
we need input and assistance from from contributors and
volunteers from around the world in a wide range of sectors.
To learn about how you can submit content on specific themes,
or help in other ways, go to the new site: www.politicsofhealth.org.
New at PROJIMO
PROJIMO's
Own Web Site
PROJIMO has launched its new web site! Both Spanish and
English versions are up and running.
PROJIMO Media
NEW! Article
by a physical therapist/Spanish Student describing
her recent experience at PROJIMO.
NEW! Viviendo
de Nuevo con Daño Medular --
Return to Life After Spinal Cord Injury. This
new educational CD Movie (Spanish with English subtitles)
is produced by PROJIMO, filmed and edited by Peter Bauer.
Now downloadable at: http://www.pwdocs.com/spinal_quicktime.htm
NEW! A
slide
show on the PROJIMO
Children's Wheelchair Making Program in Duranguito,
Sinaloa, Mexico, now on this site. Lots on innovative low-cost
custom-made designs for children with a wide variety of
wheelchairs made by a team of disabled villagers.
An extensive slide
show on PROJIMO
Community Rehabilitation Program in Mexico,
now on this site.
Conversational Spanish
Training at PROJIMO
We have a unique Intensive Conversational Spanish
Training Program at
the PROJIMO Rehabilitation
Program in Rural Mexico. A chance to volunteer and study
Spanish at the same time!
For Instructions
on How to Get to PROJIMO, in western Mexico, click
here.
New
story highlighting how the Barr
Foundation, along with representatives from Sierra
Orthopedic Laboratory, and Becker
Orthopedic Appliance Co visited PROJIMO recently to assist
in continuing to provide limbs and braces to those in need.
Papers by David Werner
NEW! UPDATE
ON THE POLITICS OF HEALTH IN MEXICO'S SIERRA MADRE,
brief paper by David Werner for a booklet by the
International People's Health Council, November, 2002
NEW ON THIS SITE:
Primary Health
Care and the Temptation of Excellence
From Newsletter from the Sierra Madre #
10, April, 1975. This includes several reflections and short
stories emphasizing the human side of Primary Health Care,
setting the philosophical and existential framework for
the following story: "What we learned from Maria."
NEW ON THIS SITE:
WHAT
WE LEARNED FROM MARIA ...Originally
printed in "Newsletter from the Sierra Madre"
# 10, April, 1975, this article has become one
of the classics of health care literature.
The story tells the events leading up to the tragic
death of a distressed village woman in Mexico. It shows
the importance of cultural sensitivity and of taking the
concerns of the ailing person seriously. This tragedy helped
a lot of us involved with Project Piaxtla in Mexico to rethink
our approach to primary health care, and to become better
health workers and more humble and compassionate human beings.
NEW ON THIS SITE:
PUSHING DRUGS IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY: What the pharmaceutical,
tobacco, and narcotics trade have in common
Keynote address for American Medical Students Association's
43rd Annual Convention: "A Prescription for Action:
Use, Misuse & Abuse of Drugs" Miami, Florida, March
25-28, 1993.
NEW
ON THIS SITE: EMPOWERMENT
AND HEALTH. Talk given by David Werner
Christian Medical Commission/CCPD Joint Commission Meeting,
Manila, Philippines 12-19 January 1988
NEW ON THIS SITE:
PUBLIC HEALTH, POVERTY, AND EMPOWERMENT--A CHALLENGE,
Convocation Address by David Werner. John Hopkins School
of Public Health, l985
INSURING
THE NECESSARY RESOURCES FOR THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH: National
and International Measures,
Address by David Werner for the Global Assembly on "Advancing
the Human Right to Health," Iowa City, Iowa, April 20-22,
2001.
For other recent papers and addresses see the David
Werner Papers page.
Arts &Crafts
Healthwrights is now offering for sale various Arts
and Crafts products made at PROJIMO. Many these
items were made by village children, both disabled and non-disabled,
and all sales go toward funding of disability programs in
Mexico.
Newsletter From the Sierra Madre
New! Newsletter
#66, April
2010. This newsletter reflects on the 2nd Continental Congress
on Community Based Rehabilitation held in Oaxaca, Mexico,
and celebrates the potentially liberating changes that are
under way in the concept and practice of CBR. The Congress
also provided feedback on programs in different countries
where David Werner has facilitated evaluations and workshops
in recent years. This includes good news from a boy in Ecuador
about his progress after a workshop there last May. This
Newsletter is being published simultaneously in
Spanish.
New! Newsletter
#65, December 2009. In October 2009,
David Werner was invited to Japan for a speaking tour linked
to launching the Japanese translation of his book, Where
There Is No Doctor. David gave a number of talks, and
visited a number of interesting programs and people who
are working for health in Japan, as Japan's health efforts
abroad.
New! Newsletter
#64, June 2009. In February 2009, David
Werner facilitated two workshops on innovative technology
for and with disabled children and their families—and
with mediators from Stichting Liliane Fonds (SLF), a charitable
organization in Holland that helps disabled children in
difficult circumstances. David was accompanied by his longtime
friend Allison Akana, who filmed the workshop in Lima. This
Newsletter is being published simultaneously in
Spanish.
New! Newsletter
#63, December
2008. Last May (2008) Marcelo Acevedo fell ill and rapidly
succumbed to brain cancer. The event was briefly noted in
our previous newsletter, but because Marcelo touched and
changed so many people's lives, we decided to devote this
newsletter to his memory. Marcelo was one of the founders
and core members of PROJIMO, the Community based rehabilitation
program run by disabled villagers in western Mexico. As
a disabled person who reached out with his hands and heart
to do his very best to help other people, on equal terms,
Marcelo was a personification of the highest ideals of the
program.
New! Newsletter
#62, August
2008. In Colombia in February 2008, David Werner led two
hands-on workshops with Stichting Liliane Fonds on creating
and modifying assistive equipment for children. The primary
purpose of these workshops was to expand the skills of Liliane
mediators who work in the area. This Newsletter highlights
what was learned through these workshops. We also pay tribute
to Marcelo Acevedo, who for many years was a key member
of the PROJIMO team, who died in May of this year.
Back issues of the Newsletter are now available
on this site. The Newsletter from the Sierra Madre,
as well asthe original four Reports from the
Sierra Madre, which preceded the Newsletters, are now
online. To see them go to Newsletters.
Books and Translations
Online Books
NEW!
The following books by David Werner are now available for
viewing and downloading, in both English and Spanish, at
no cost:
- Where
There is No Doctor
-Donde No Hay Doctor
- Helping
Health Workers Learn
-Aprendiendo a Promover
la Salud
- Disabled
Village Children
-El Niño Campesino
Deshabilitado
- Questioning
the Solution
-Cuestionando la
Solución
- Nothing
About Us Without Us
-Nada Sobre Nosotros Sin
Nosotros
last updated: November, 2007
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