Week of action against Health commercialization - 2-7 April 2019

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THIS PLEDGE IS LAUNCHED BY THE EUROPEAN NETWORK AGAINST PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION

Conference and action in Brussels on April 2
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The principles we stand for:

Health is a state of physical, mental, social, cultural and ecological well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.

Health and social protection are universal human rights that must be considered in its broadest and most comprehensive aspects, including the determinants of health.

Therefore, the right to health and social protection requires action not only by the health sector, but also by many other social, environmental and economic sectors. Political choices, whether European or national, must be made to ensure that the entire population, whatever their geographical area, has access to accessible, reliable, high-quality, non-commercial and democratic local services financed by a system of solidarity.

That is why, in my role as an elected member of the European Parliament, representing European citizens, I undertake to oppose the dismantling of health and universal social protection systems through the following axes:

• For our health: ensure adequate funding for public and non-commercial health services in the Member States, guaranteeing a system of social protection that is inclusive, public and universal and offers accessible, high-quality services;
• For our health: protect the population against commercial abuses, because health and social protection are common goods and are not for sale;
• For our health: guarantee financial, geographical, temporal and cultural accessibility to health for all populations, without restriction of any kind, taking into account local realities;
• For our health: promote health democracy by involving civil society, workers and beneficiaries in defining the objectives and means of health policies;
• For our Health: improve health by addressing root causes such as the social, environmental and ecological and gender determinants of health;
• For our health: orient medicine policy at the service of the population and not of multinational pharmaceutical companies.

From 4 years now, Alter Summit supports the European day of action against health commercialization.