Public health and humanity losses: A reiterated plead towards jonathan mann's principles
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Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
Publication date: 2023-04-26
Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A1659
ABSTRACT
Jonathan Mann fought all his life for Public Health Rights. In 1998 he resigned from
World Health Organization in protest of United Nations not humanely responding
towards the rampant AIDS crisis. Mann called for a shift of human consciousness
through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a (post) covid-19 World we
are urged to question whether todays millions globally consume the first article
to which international pillars swear - ’All human beings are born free and equal
in dignity and rights’ (UDHR Article 1). Are we equal and dignified in consuming
Public Health Rights? As in the times of Mann’s fights for dignity and health little
has changed on the global health scene? (Mann et al.,1999 posthumously). Are
there ways of escaping a quantified humanity causing structural loss of Rights?
Methodologically, this research is a long-term follow up of Croatian/European
medical system downfall embedded in social level mapping (Bear et al. 1986) of
decades long global medicine departures from equity for all (Walter et al. 2004,
Bourdieu, 1992, etc.). The times of (post) COVID 19 demand a further critical seeking
of Rights informed interventions upon the findings which prove the continuous
structural violence done through today’s neoliberal syntax of numbers not health
for all (Špoljar Vržina, 2021). Results testify of people uncapable of surviving
future challenges without Public Health equity confronting the solidified medicine
paradigms that wax and wane according to the continuous structural violence of
monetary ‘progress’. Without Mann’ dignified humanity global transformations are
solely ones into an endangered species cycles of pandemics, forced migrations
and wars. Concludary, global desensitizing conditions continuously build upon
disrespect towards the worsening realities of global medical contexts for which,
reintroducing the basics of Mann’s principles into Public Health actions of a (post)
COVID 19 World are indivisible of future Public Health agendas.