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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
In this kind of situation, health as a public good once again becomes paramount
Abstract:
Dr Jeanette Vega is well known in global health circles for her work in the areas of health equity, social determinants of health and health systems. She has served as Chile's Vice Minister of Health, and as director of the country's National Health Fund (FONASA). For fi ve years, she was also WHO Director of Equity and Social Determinants of Health. She currently sits on the 13-member Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-chaired by H.E. Gro Harlem Brundt-land, Former Prime Minister of Norway and Former WHO Director-General; and Mr Elhadj As Sy, Chair, Kofi Annan Foun-dation Board, and Former Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. An independent international monitoring and advocacy body, the GPMB prepared the seminal 2019 report on the state of global preparedness, A World at Risk.
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