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Community Health Committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the right to health.

Community participation has been considered one of several key ingredients required to improve community health yet, studies from Southern Africa underscore serious shortcomings in the implementation of meaningful community participation. This paper explores the role of Health Committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the health rights of communities. Read the article in the link below:

http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/3116

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Critical Health Perspectives - Call for Papers.
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CHP is a publication of the People's Health Movement, South Africa (South Africa). It is produced with the aim of offering an alternative, "peoples health" perspective and stimulating debate on critical issues related to health and health care in South Africa and elsewhere. CHP is distributed electronically directly to about 500 people, as well as to a number of email lists. The distribution list consist of professionals interested in health care issues, staff in NGO's, trade union membership, media, government officials, activists, etc.

You are hereby invited to submit papers or articles which are in alignment with the above objectives for publication. Contributions should be in English and not exceed 1,500 words. Please inform us if the articles have been submitted/published elsewhere.

Articles should fall within the broad framework of the People's Charter for Health, which is available on the PHM website www.phmovement.org

The editorial collective of CHP will consider submitted articles for publication. CHP reserves the right to edit all articles.

Articles to be submitted to nmyburgh@uwc.ac.za

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