DOCUMENTS:


The people's health charter

Proposal for a global ‘Right to Health and Health Care Campaign’
to be launched by the People’s Health Movement. December 2005

COSTITUTIONAL ACT
OF “NURSING IN MOVEMENT”

The project to create an associative professional, ethical and political organ for nurses and other health care workers, with the main aim of promoting health as the fundamental right of man, and peace as the grounds to achieve it, was ideated on October 2004  with the opening of the web site: www.nelmovimento.org.

Nursing in movement shares the contents of some documents drawn up during the last few years by organisations and movements among which: the The people's charter for health (2000), the Erice Declaration, and the Mumbai Declaration (2004).

Nursing in movement condemns the growing health inequality among nations and classes within a nation, the process of the privatisation of health services, the vision of the International Commerce Organisation  (WTO) that classifies health as a merchandise to be consumed like other goods.

It affirms the fundamental role of nursing in the assuring of health, as every person’s right, through all the factors that determine it: political, economic, social and environmental.

By supporting this document the founders announce  the birth of an association of people which calls itself  “Nursing in movement” or “Nim”.

The founders and supporters  share the principles and aims of Nim and  participate in all the initiatives and activities promoted by the group.

Goals

Nursing in movement has as its goal the promotion of the right to health on the global level and the achievement of peace among all peoples. It proposes to furnish  to all professional workers, to all organizations of civil society, all movements and to those interested individuals, with instruments for the analysis and evaluation and action, in order to define strategies and appropriate actions to achieve this goal.

Activities

In order to achieve its goals Nursing in movement:

 

1.      Gathers, analyses and evaluates information, documentation and experiences regarding the state of world health, and regarding the  political, social and economic, environmental factors that determine this,  together with nursing in as much as equality, life styles and reachable development and that spread it through the site www.nelmovimento.org  and other publishing initiatives.

 2   Contribute to, organise and participate in the formative , educative and  professional  updating
      activities.

3.   Participate and collaborate with projects of cooperation in favour of poorer populations and groups in  order to improve the state of their health.

4    Identify, promote and sustain initiatives that permit the citizens to participate in the democratic control of the political choices regarding the health of the community.

5.   Collaborate with institutions, organizations, associations, movements , and interested individuals.

Founders

The Founders are those who sign for the present constitutional act with  the commitment to give continuity in time, to all the goals and activities of Nim.  

Sustainers
The sustainers are those who share the principles and goals and who collaborate and participate in the activities  through the resources, instruments and ways approved by the central board in the Forums of Nursing in movement. They can, individually or in groups, propose themes to be studied and initiatives to be carried out

Structure

The forum is the highest directive organ directing Nursing in movement, and the founders are those called to participate  in  the Forum. The participation in the Forum can be widened to sustainers , or else can be can be totally open   according to the decisions of the Forum. The Forum will take place at least once a year.

 

Florence, October 8, 2005

If you wish to contact us, write to: nim@nelmovimento.org