WMJ 05 2011 - World Medical Association

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Cover picture from Mozambique World Medical Association Officers, Chairpersons and Officials Dr. Wonchat SUBHACHATURAS WMA President Thai Health Professional Alliance Against Tobacco (THPAAT) Royal Golden Jubilee, 2 Soi Soonvijai, New Petchburi Rd. Bangkok, Thailand Dr. Dana HANSON WMA Immediate Past-President Fredericton Medical Clinic 1015 Regent Street Suite # 302, Fredericton, NB, E3B 6H5 Canada Dr. José Luiz GOMES DO AMARAL WMA President-Elect Associaçao Médica Brasileira Rua Sao Carlos do Pinhal 324 Bela Vista, CEP 01333-903 Sao Paulo, SP Brazil Dr. Mukesh HAIKERWAL WMA Chairperson of Council 58 Victoria Street Williamstown, VIC 3016 Australia Dr. Leonid EIDELMAN WMA Chairperson of the Finance and Planning Committee Israel Medical Asociation 2 Twin Towers, 35 Jabotinsky St. P.O.Box 3566, Ramat-Gan 52136 Israel Sir Michael MARMOT WMA Chairperson of the Socio- Medical-Affairs Committee British Medical Association BMA House, Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JP United Kingdom Dr. Torunn JANBU WMA Chairperson of the Medical Ethics Committee Norwegian Medical Association P.O. Box 1152 sentrum 0107 Oslo Norway Dr. Otmar KLOIBER WMA Secretary General 13 chemin du Levant France 01212 Ferney-Voltaire France Dr. Masami ISHII WMA Vice-Chairman of Council Japan Medical Assn 2-28-16 Honkomagome Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8621 Japan Dr. Guy DUMONT WMA Chairperson of the Associate Members 14 rue des Tiennes 1380 Lasne Belgium Dr. Frank Ulrich MONTGOMERY WMA Treasurer Herbert-Lewin-Platz 1 (Wegelystrasse) 10623 Berlin Germany www.wma.net Official Journal of the World Medical Association Editor in Chief Dr. Pēteris Apinis Latvian Medical Association Skolas iela 3, Riga, Latvia Phone +371 67 220 661 peteris@arstubiedriba.lv editorin-chief@wma.net Co-Editor Dr. Alan J. Rowe Haughley Grange, Stowmarket Suffolk IP143QT, UK Co-Editor Prof. Dr. med. Elmar Doppelfeld Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag Dieselstr. 2, D-50859 Köln, Germany Assistant Editor Velta Pozņaka wmj-editor@wma.net Journal design and cover design by Pēteris Gricenko Layout and Artwork The Latvian Medical Publisher “Medicīnas apgāds”, President Dr. Maija Šetlere, Katrīnas iela 2, Riga, Latvia Cover painting: ”Uprising” by Camkima. Camkina is the artist name of Domingos Temangau from Mozambique. He is a street painter, 36 years old.Started to paint in 1995 and won second place in a art competition of the Portuguese Camões Institute in 1999 and a honorable mention in a the competition of fine arts at the National Museum of arts in 2001. Publisher The World Medical Association, Inc. BP 63 01212 Ferney-Voltaire Cedex, France Publishing House Publishing House Deutscher-Ärzte Verlag GmbH, Dieselstr. 2, P.O.Box 40 02 65 50832 Cologne/Germany Phone (0 22 34) 70 11-0 Fax (0 22 34) 70 11-2 55 Producer Alexander Krauth Business Managers J. Führer, N. Froitzheim 50859 Köln, Dieselstr. 2, Germany IBAN: DE83370100500019250506 BIC: PBNKDEFF Bank: Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, IBAN: DE28300606010101107410 BIC: DAAEDEDD 50670 Cologne, No. 01 011 07410 Advertising rates available on request The magazine is published bi-mounthly. Subscriptions will be accepted by Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag or the World Medical Association Subscription fee € 22,80 per annum (incl. 7% MwSt.). For members of the World Medical Association and for Associate members the subscription fee is settled by the membership or associate payment. Details of Associate Membership may be found at the World Medical Association website www.wma.net Printed by Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag Cologne, Germany ISSN: 0049-8122 Opinions expressed in this journal – especially those in authored contributions – do not necessarily reflect WMA policy or positions ii
Editorial Window of Hope This editorial is being written just days before the UN summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), which marks only the second time in history that the UN General Assembly has set aside significant time to discuss a health issue. Preparations have been underway for more than a year and the expectations are high. Non-Communicable diseases now represent the greatest proportion of the global burden of disease. The World Health Organisation, in it approach to NCDs, has focused its attention on four disease groups: heart disease, lung disease, cancer and diabetes. Without doubt, these are crucial problems worldwide, but there is much more to it. Mental health, muscular-skeletal diseases, Otmar Kloiber accident and trauma are just a few examples of non-communicable diseases that are tremendously important but do not enjoy the same level of visibility within the WHO – including in its planning for the NCD summit. Some, such as mental health, have been pushed into the Summit agenda by governments, while others are largely being ignored. This piece-meal approach to NCDs resurrects critical concerns about a flawed approach to global health that we believed we had begun to move past. In the post-Alma Ata period, the work of international organisations, including WHO, was marked by donor-driven vertical programs tackling specific diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, river blindness and malaria. These programs were all well-meaning humanitarian efforts, driven by immediate, visible needs that health funders and the public found very compelling. Yet, as physicians concerned for the full health of our patients, we criticized the imbalanced prioritization of these discrete programs over other programs that would address the overall health needs in the affected regions and contribute to the build-up of comprehensive health care systems. We were encouraged by a sobering series of analyses and reports – most importantly, the World Health Reports on Human Resources for Health in 2006 and on Primary Care 2008, and a brilliant analysis on the Social Determinants of Health in 2009 – in which the WHO recognised the failures inherent in the silo-based paradigm and recommended an epochal shift to a more systematic, primary care-based approach to health. This new paradigm would focus on personcentred care and people-centred public health, building and strengthening health systems around a solid core of primary care. The WMA welcomed and supported this new approach. Thus, we are concerned and disappointed by the current NCD strategy, which appears be taking us back down the road of vertical programs and away from the holistic approach to human health that we believed that WHO was committed to pursuing. Certainly, a strong focus on heart disease, lung disease, cancer and diabetes is warranted. These are massive health problems that affect large populations and consume enormous amounts of health resources. And many of their causes are preventable through lifestyle changes, such as smoking cessation, reduction of alcohol consumption, increased physical activity, and better nutrition. However, preventive care can and should be addressed in the context of quality health systems, alongside the full complement of primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Building such comprehensive systems will simply not be achievable if funding is disproportionately funnelled into disease-specific programs. We have learned this lesson once already. During the upcoming Summit, the national leaders in New York have a chance to turn the focus back toward improved investment in health and in health care across the board – not only where there are donor-driven programs, but at the national level in each country. They can choose to apply the available resources toward the goal of building real health systems that take in account the social determinants of health and provide effective, accessible, quality health care for all persons. It is our sincere hope that they will recognize and seize the opportunity to do exactly that. Dr. Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General WMA 161
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