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Political Economy of Health Special Interest Group

Committee Details:

Convenor:                Deborah Gleeson     Email:  d.gleeson@latrobe.edu.au
Deputy Convenor:  David Legge
NSW Rep:                Pat Morton
ACT Rep:                 Sally Kingsland
SA Rep:                    Paul Laris
NT Rep:                    Liz  Mooore

SIG Forums

 

The Political Economy of Health SIG Forum provides an area for Political Economy of Health SIG members to post information, respond to and discuss various articles of interest and to interact with fellow members.

Link to Forums (you will be required to login to access this area)

Events

Political Economy of Heatlh/Women's Health/Primary Health Care/International Heatlh Workshop 2010
Social determinants of health, Millennuim Development Goals (MDGs), maternal mortality and reproductive health in the Asia Pacific: What could Australia be doing better?

Sunday 26 September 2010
1.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Adelaide Convention Centre

Click here for more information
Click here for registration form

 
Public Forum on Trade and Health in the Pacific PACER-Plus:
Should we be concerned?  12 and 13 March 2010

Click this link for Final Report


Click this link for the Statement of Support for the Pacific from New Zealand and Australian civil society on PACER-Plus trade negotiations August 2010

Moratorium Civil Society Statement to Pacific Island Forum Leaders regarding PACER-Plus
negotiations.


Press Release
Political Economy of Health SIG AGM - 27 September 2009
Notice of AGM
Nomination Form

Political Economy of Health & Primary Health Care Special Interest Groups Combined Workshop
The Global Financial Meltdown:Implications for Health Policy
Sunday 27th September 2009 - 10 am - 4 pm

GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Gavin Mooney

Click here to download Flyer and Program

 

Report from the  workshop, including the outcomes and workplan;
http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/PEHPHCworkshopReport2009.doc

Professor Mooney's talk
http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/MOONEYTheGlobalMeltdownTalkCanberra.pdf

Photo of some of the participants.
http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/PEHPHCWorkshopphotoCanberra2009.jpg

 

 

David Legge Blog

The PEH and PHC SIGs held a very stimulating workshop on 26 September in Canberra, prior to the PHAA annual conference. One of the ideas which surfaced during that discussion was the possibility of creating a blog to support a continuing discussion of the political economy of health.  David Legge has now created a blog which you can access at http://poleconhealth.blogspot.com/.  So dear friends, please take up the challenge - there are already some posts to the blog that will get the discussion going.

If you want to be a 'member' of this blog, you can do so through Google friends, email D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au
A 'member' can post topics and can post comments without moderation.  Non-members cannot post topics but can comment but their comments will be moderated.
Deb Gleeson (PEHSIG convenor) and Helen Keleher (PHCSIG convenor)

Advocacy

Tony McMichael, as NHMRC Australia Fellow at ANU
Article published in the Canberra Times ' Health Risks from Climate Change: the Unheard Warning Bell?"
19 October 2009
"From World War to Class War: The Rebound of the Rich" , by Robert G. Evans (PDF)

Bob Evans is one of the developers of the "population health" concept and a leading health economist in Canada
2006
"Beware the poverty trap" By Prof Stephen Leeder. Article in the Australian Doctor (PDF) June 2005

Links

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