HealthWrights: About

Mission

HealthWrights is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences.

See our page at the Independent Living Institute.

Activities

HealthWrights focuses on these activities:

• Development and distribution of educational materials on health and human rights, presented clearly and simply so that people at all educational levels can understand them.

  • See: Books for all five of David Werner’s books, including Where There is No Doctor
  • See: The Newsletters from the Sierra Madre
  • See: Articles
  • See: Presentations
  • See: Multimedia for videos, slide shows, and galleries.

• Community Health and Community Based Rehabilitation: mainly in the 3rd World in the South (mainly Mexico), but increasingly in disadvantaged communities in the North.

  • See: Piaxtla Project, a villager-run health-care network in the mountains of western Mexico (1968-2000)

• Disability issues, rights and technologies, with leadership taken by disabled persons and their families.

  • See: PROJIMO Coyotitan, a rehabilitation program run by disabled persons. (1982-Present)
  • See: PROJIMO Durangito, a wheelchair and prosthetics workshop run by disabled persons. (1982-Present)
  • See: Habilítate Mazatlán, an innovative service program run by disabled recovering-drug-users.

• Child-to-Child helping children discover ways to help protect the health and well-being of their younger brothers and sisters, and other children.

  • See: Child-to-Child (1979-Present)

• Critical analysis of the politics of poor health, and awareness raising to mobilize a broad-based grassroots movement to work toward fairer and healthier social structures. To this end we maintain a separate website called Politics of Health,

  • See: The Politics of Health (2002-Present)

• Networking among progressive health, disability, human rights, environmental, and other groups, to work for social change and stronger participation of under-represented groups. Our semi-annual Newsletter is one of our broadest networking tools.

Personnel

Co-directors

Board Members

International Advisory Board

Spanish Translation

Web Team