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What is IHCAI’s Mission?
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We
Use Knowledge...
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generate new, and harness existing, knowledge to address the complex and
difficult challenges of health care and access to health information by
professionals and health consumers. We focus on reducing the
disproportionate burden disease of poor people. Our major areas of work are
research skill development, critical appraisal, analysis and translation of
scientific knowledge into professional health care practice and community use We
focus on the Medical Education and health professionals’ curriculum to enhance
the future professionals’ competences and incorporate new knowledge and
technology for improving the efficacy and effectiveness of new continuous
medical education for current professionals’ improvement in order
to improve the future and current physicians and health professionals’
competences.
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We
Are Global. We live the globalization process...
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we do not--and cannot--have a presence everywhere, we want work intensively in
Central America. We base our work on the benefits of globalization. However, our
work recognizes and addresses the negative aspects of globalization such as
injustice, inequalities and exclusion of many groups in the region. This
exclusion encompasses basic sources of income and access to the benefits of
knowledge, science and technology resulting in new forms of exploitation, trade
patterns and consequently new diseases related to ecological damage and poverty.
We collaborate in regional and international networks. We share our experience
with other countries in South America, Africa and other developing regions. We
also collaborate with partners in high income countries who have shown a genuine
interest and affirmative actions for contributing with our mission, programs and
tasks.
- HEALTH
AS A HUMAN RIGHT
- Health
is a reflection of a society’s commitment to equity and justice.
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and human rights should prevail over economic and political concerns.
- Ravi
Narayan Coordinator
- People’s
Health Movement Secretariat
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International Health Central
American Institute
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Foundation
IHCAI Foundation has its
headquartes in
San José, Costa Rica, Central America.
IHCAI Foundation is an equal
opportunity organization and do not make
any preference by gender, race,
sexual orientation or political opinions
and rejects those openly racist,
Nazi or Neo Nazi oriented.
IHCAI - Main Office
P.O. Box 1677-2100, San José,
Costa Rica,
Barrio Escalante, San Jose, 7th Avenue, 35 and 37 Street, #3530
Tel: (506) 2234-6354 or (506) 2234-6347
// Fax: (506)2226-3047
Email:
info@ihcai.org
http://www.ihcai.org
