Universities, organizations and student associations from 7 different European countries are involved in this project, united by a common interest in Global Health and its teaching.
Equal opportunities for health: action for development is an education and awareness-building project designed to highlight the importance of approaching health as a fundamental human right closely related to individual social development.
The aim of the project – of which Doctors with Africa CUAMM is the lead organization – is to make European public opinion aware of the close link between health and development and to make the medical and health community – doctors, health providers, lecturers, trainers, and medical students – responsible for taking action.
To promote discussion and dissemination of the Global Health paradigm, understood to be a “panoramic” approach to health, able to theoretically transpose into practice social determinants of health, values of justice and equity identified in the Declaration of Alma Ata, and an analysis of the growing interdependence between populations and countries determined by processes of globalization and its impact on health and health inequalities both in and among countries.
CELAB-CEU is an Associate Partner.
3rd Partnership Meeting took place in Poznan, Polnad on 11 May, 2012.