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What is The Network: Towards Unity for Health?
The Network: TUFH is a global association of individuals, groups, institutions and organisations committed to improving and maintaining health in the communities they have a mandate to serve.
The Network: TUFH is a Non-Governmental Organisation in official relationships with the World Health Organization (WHO).
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The 15 by 2015 Campaign
“15by2015” quality health care for all. Primary health care and prevention are the best and most affordable ways to save the most lives and improve overall health.
With the “15by2015” campaign we ask that donor organisations allocate 15% of their vertical funding towards sustainable comprehensive primary health care that is accessible and affordable in all regions of the world.
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The Kampala Call
The 2007 Conference of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (The Network: TUFH: www.the-networktufh.org) in Kampala, Uganda discussed “Human Resources for Health: Recruitment, Education and Retention”. Every country is confronted by two types of medical migration. There is an internal “brain drain” away from generalism and primary care to specialisation, sub-specialisation and disease oriented practice. In the developed world this is most noticed in an increasing crisis in numbers of family physicians and general practitioners. In the developing world it is most noticed in the ‘vertical’ disease oriented programmes, attracting the majority of international donor funding, extracting health workers away from local primary care systems. This weakens health care provision at the district level, and ultimately leaves the primary care programme at being unsustainable.
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2008 Conference: Adapting Health Services and Health Professions Education to Local Needs: Partnerships, Priorities and Passions
Call for Abstracts + Registration is now open
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The Prevention Education Resource Center
The Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC) is a web-based repository of educational materials related to clinical prevention and population health. PERC is supported by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). The site promotes collaboration across health care disciplines, professions, and institutions by facilitating the exchange of teaching resources and connecting educators. The PERC was launched in October 2006 by APTR, convener of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force. The development and operation of PERC are funded by a grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation of New York.
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