Most of the morning was given to discussion in country and regional groups. Groups were asked to think about projects and initiatives in their countries and regions which would build PHM locally and would strengthen the regional PHM network.
BRAZIL
The following topics were discussed: Social Control (community participation); food safety; violence (mobilization in association with the various bodies involved but with added training for social movements); patriarchy (including women (gender), equity between genders and sexual rights); environmental determinants (including environmental racism); labor relations; racism; logistics (publicity, campaigns, structure); professional education.
URUGUAY
Discussed: Environmental issues (plantations, environmental racism); reform of the health system (including privatisation and commodification); defence
of State public health.
ARGENTINA - PARAGUAY - AUSTRALIA
Health and political construction; Training in Health: Promoters, Leaders, Students; Ecosystem and health; Determinants of health
ANDEAN REGION CENTRAL AMERICA - (Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru)
The right to health; Neoliberalism (including the privatization of water); Depredation of the environment; Economic globalization (including 'free trade agreements'); Migration and "brain leaking" = intellectuals flee to other countries or even into the country, for reasons both economic and military; . Violence, conflict, drug trafficking; Transversal Topic: Gender, Racial and Ethnic, Social Class
STRATEGIES
1. Build popular health organizations - community autonomy, construction of identity, adding to those organizations
2. Strategic development of communication - create programs for television, radio, internet to disseminate successful strategies
3. Cohesion policy and struggles with all popular movements and prevent the dispersion in both the macro and the micro. Consensus of calendars
4. Strategic teaching and curriculum in the training of environmentalists, community, health professionals
Team DC Meeting
Environmental Determinants
This topic presented by Nicholas Campoverde
Further reading on environmental determinants
Reports from Practice
Sandra, from Brazil, spoke about GAPA (Group of Support and Prevention of AIDS. GAPA was founded in 1989.
Visit to the Municipal Health Council
Dinner in the Shed CRIOULO MAURÍCIO SIROTZKI
(This page condensed from notes kept by Eloir Vial.)
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