The curriculum includes:

• the struggle for health in Cuba and Latin America: challenges, strategy and practice, achievements and new directions;
• ­ working with communities and with grass roots people’s organizations;
• social determinants of health: poverty, oppression and hierarchy; alienation and exclusion; racism, sexism and materialism);
• comprehensive primary health care: achievements, challenges, lessons and new directions; ­
• the political economy of health: imperialism and globalisation, the international financial institutions and the UN system; local issues and global pressures;
• health system strengthening; the politics of health policy;
• the right to health: principles, achievements and new directions;
• people’s health and the environmental struggle;
• research: part of the problem and part of the solution.

Participants should come prepared:
* to describe in some detail an activist project or campaign or movement that they have been directly involved in; to describe in sufficient detail for the strategies, theories and skills of practice to be evident;
* to provide an overall assessment of the health challenges in their country and the status and prospects for PHM;
* to present an account of an episode of teaching and or learning that they have been involved in.

The program for all of the IPHU Short Courses is based on the People’s Charter for Health (PCH). We will explore the meaning of the PCH; analyse the challenges it presents and develop resources and strategies for the struggle for Health For All. Participants should ensure that they are very familar with the Charter.

Applicants should have a university degree.

IPHU Coordinator, Dr David Legge
Email: havana@phmovement.org
Internet: http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/havana/announce
http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/system/files/IPHUHavanaAnnounceBrochureESP.pdf

• learn practical skills and concepts which will enable me to be more effective as an activist in the people's health movement;
• deepen my understanding of globalisation and the political economy of health;
• learn more about health services policy; about comprehensive primary health care and about health systems;
• explore the application of a rights-based approach to health issues;
• learn about ‘development assistance’ in health and about the politics of ‘health sector reform’;
• broaden my understanding of the links between the environment and health
• work through the implications of gender relations in relation to health (and other axes of difference) and acquire new insights, skills and strategies addressing these issues;
• learn more about the social determinants of health and the role of the health sector in addressing these; and
• explore the role of meaning and spirituality in activism and social change.
  The program for all of fthe IPHU Short Courses is based on the Peoples Charter for Health (PCH).

Internet: http://phmovement.org/iphu/en/jaipur

• the struggle for health: achievements, strategies and new directions;
• working with communities and with grass roots health organisations;
• comprehensive primary health care: achievements, lessons and new directions;
• the political economy of health: globalisation, the WTO, the IMF and the WB; local issues and global pressures;
• the right to health: principles, achievements and new directions;
• people’s health and the environmental struggle;
• research: part of the problem and part of the solution;
• social determinants of health (poverty, oppression and hierarchy; alienation and exclusion; racism and sexism; materialism) and the struggle for health.

Email: porto@phmovement.org
Internet: http://phmovement.org/iphu/en/porto

• Introduction to the Revitalisation Project and implications for relationships and patterns of work during the research;
• About PHC from pre-1978 to Alma-Ata to health sector reform; the politics of PHC and barriers to health development; the People’s Charter for Health; social movements and the PHM;
• About CPHC and access, equity and the social and environmental determinants of health (conceptual framework); principles and ‘characteristics’ of CPHC;
• About global and national health systems policy; histories and debates; role of the key actors;
• About the social and institutional contexts and policy (and management and change) processes; theories of change; social movements; the role of the state; the rights approach;
• Research methodologies and methods (including recognition of different cultural streams); researching PHC; identifying researchable questions; analysis and writing up;
• From evidence to action principles; the role of PAR.

• September – November 2008: Two week training program (see ‘Proposed Venues and Dates for Regional Training Programs’ at end of this Call for Expressions of Interest)
• October 2008 – November 2010: New funded research studies
• September – November 2009: First regional meeting and 3 day Training Program
• September – November 2010: Second regional meeting
• Sometime in 2011: A global meeting on overall project results (to be determined, based on obtaining new funding)

Email: porto@phmovement.org
Internet: Click here or http://phmovement.org/iphu/en/programframe