Global Health Histories Seminar 112:
Faith in Universal Health Coverage: Primary Health Care at 40 and the World Council of Churches at 70
17 October 2018, 12:30pm (CEST)
Broadcast live over YouTube, please visit https://www.youtube.com/
Speaker: Ben Walker (University of York, UK) Mwai Makoka (Programme Executive for Health and Healing, World Council of Churches)
This seminar explores the role religion plays in providing primary health care (PHC) today and in the past, by analysing the work of medical missionaries and faith-based organisations (FBOs) such as the World Council of Churches’ (WCC).
Since its birth in 1948 the WCC has played an active role in health and healing, supporting the medical work of its member churches. Yet the full extent of the role of the WCC’s Christian Medical Commission in the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration in PHC is less well known. PHC emerged from a collaboration between the WHO and the WCC, and had its roots in the mission movement. In this seminar two experts on faith and healthcare discuss how faith-based and ecumenical organisations developed PHC projects across the world in the 1980s, and how the renewed interest in PHC in 2018 can benefit from a complete understanding of the long-standing working relationship between the WHO and WCC.
Further details are available at https://www.york.ac.uk/hist
Information about the Global Health Histories series is available at www.york.ac.uk/history/glob
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