HealthWrights: Projects

Throughout its history, HealthWrights has been involved in a range of path-breaking activities which have influenced the global healthcare field. These include

 

• Project Piaxtla, the villager-run community-based health program in rural Mexico,
• PROJIMO, the community-based rehabilitation, work skills, and workshop project run by disabled people themselves,
  • including support for Rigo Delgado’s community-awareness work in Culiacán, and
  • the Spanish Training Program,
• Child-to-Child, An innovative, discovery-based approach that encourages school-aged children, individually and collectively, learn to prevent and resolve common health problems in their homes and communities,
• Publishing Books including Questioning the Solution with David Werner, Nothing About Us Without Us, and Reports from the Sierra Madre,
  • See also our Articles, Multimedia, and Presentations
• Addressing the “Politics of Health” to avoid narrow medicalized thinking about the realities of the systemic deficiencies global health, and
• Expanding the scope of services to the disabled, such as Habilítate Mazatlán (Enable-Yourself Mazatlán), an innovative service program run by disabled recovering-drug-users.

Past Associations

• David Werner established the Hesperian Foundation—now independent—which publishes the health manuals Where There Is No Doctor, Helping Health Workers Learn, and Disabled Village Children.
• HealthWrights was a founding member of the IPHC which was a precursor organization that led to the People’s Health Movement.