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Articles by Kristof Decoster
Gen Z Rage Tests Global Health’s Reform Theatre
The Indian “cockroach movement” led by Cockroach Janta Party is a recent and vivid expression of Gen Z anger and youth mobilization. It emerged after the Chief Justice of India compared some unemployed young people to ‘cockroaches’ during a court hearing; he later clarified that he had not intended to disparage India’s youth as a whole. Young activists reclaimed the label and turned it into a collective political identity.
Call for IHP correspondents 2024
We are pleased to announce the IHP call for correspondents 2024. Each year, the weekly International Health Policies (IHP) Newsletter & network issues a call for correspondents to contribute to the newsletter.
Call for IHP/EV residency (Autumn 2023)
The weekly International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter is a flagship knowledge management activity of the IHP network, funded by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD) and produced out of ITM Antwerp.
Start van het jaar in globale gezondheidszorg op de WHO Executive Board meeting in Genève - DeWereldMorgen.be
Een paar weken terug was er al de jaarlijkse PMAC jamboree (i.e. de “Prince Mahidol Award Conference”) in Bangkok voor de happy few in ‘global health’, maar vorige week werd in Genève pas echt het startschot gegeven voor een nieuw jaar in de nogal complexe wereld van mondiaal gezondheidsbeleid en -architectuur, met de 152ste sessie van de raad van bestuur van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO). Om meer dan één reden lijkt het ook een belangrijk jaar te worden.
Call for IHP correspondents (2022)
As was the case last year, IHP launches a call for correspondents for the weekly International Health Policies Newsletter & Network.
Renaming non-communicable diseases
Reframing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to “spur a sense of urgency” and “focus attention on effective system-wide interventions”1 makes sense.
Role of the European Union in global health
Elizabeth Speakman and colleagues (April, 2017)1 propose the development of a European global health strategy. As researchers who have analysed the European Union's (EU's) role in global health in the past, we appreciate a renewed debate on this topic.
Composition of pluralistic health systems: how much can we learn from household surveys? An exploration in Cambodia
In spite of all efforts to build national health services, health systems of many low-income countries are today highly pluralistic. Households use a vast range of public and private health care providers, many of whom are not controlled by national health authorities. Experts have called on Ministries of Health to re-establish themselves as stewards of the entire health system.
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