Agenda

Plenary session 1:

Poverty damages health – Sickness causes poverty.
Histories, analysis and starting points

Film portrait of poverty and health: Haiti

Paule Kemgni, IUÉD:
Poverty, social inequality, destitution, sickness. Looking into a vicious circle

Film portrait of poverty and health: Kyrgyzstan

Veronica Walford, Institute for Health Sector Development:
How effective are existing health programmes at reaching the poor?

Film portrait of poverty and health: Switzerland

Alex Schwank, Journal of Social Medicine:
Social inequality and health in Switzerland.
By no means fully under control

Parallel sessions:

Poverty damages health – Sickness causes poverty.
A wider-ranging, in-depth look at the subject, options for action

Film portrait Haiti:
With Chandon Chattopadhyay, Biel-Haiti Children’s Hospital Partnership Association, and Paule Kemgni, iuéd

Film portrait Kyrgyzstan:
With Peter Eppler, Swiss Red Cross, CBIH project Kyrgyzstan,
and Veronica Walford, IHSD

Film portrait Switzerland:
With Edith Leibundgut-Fischer, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Gender Health Office; and Alex Schwank, Social Medicine

Plenary session 3:

Against poverty that damages health.
Against sickness that causes poverty.
The road to health for all

Helena Nygren-Krug, WHO:
Operationalization of the human right to health at government level

Barbara del Pozo, SDC:
Combating poverty and health in governmental development cooperation: Should the chicken or the egg come first?

Marianne Widmer, MediCuba-Suisse:
Health for All. A realistic project.
Manifesto of the Network Health for All.

Closing podium session:
Health for all: The agenda for tomorrow ...