Complete article: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-01.htm

Below is an excerpt.

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Published on Friday, July 22, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
Sick of Globalization
by Kintto Lucas


CUENCA, Ecuador -- Alternative reports on global health, presented at the
second People's Health Assembly in Ecuador this week, question the
free-market, neoliberal economic model and view it as the cause of many of
the health problems facing humanity today.

These include the indiscriminate use of toxic products in agriculture,
pollution caused by the oil industry, the consumption of transgenic crops,
the destruction of the urban environment by pollution, and the
commercialization of health services.

The reports by the Global Health Watch and the Observatorio Latinoamericano
de Salud see a healthy life as a fundamental human right, the enjoyment of
which depends on economic, political and social factors.

The Global Health Watch is a broad collaboration of public health experts,
non-governmental organizations, civil society activists, community groups,
health workers and academics.

Mexican academic Laura Juárez Sánchez, who took part in drawing up the
reports, said that by generating increasing unemployment, poverty and rural
migration, the ”capitalist economic model” is the main cause of the return
of illnesses that had been basically eradicated and of deaths from easily
curable ailments.

Juárez Sánchez pointed to the reappearance of cholera and deaths of people
from scabies, typhoid fever, diarrhea, tonsillitis and pneumonia.

These illnesses are expanding as a result of ”malnutrition and the lack of
access to and deterioration of basic social services like health care,
education and housing,” said Juárez Sánchez, a researcher at the Universidad
Obrera, a Mexican university...
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