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INFORME ALTERNATIVO SOBRE LA SALUD EN AMERICA LATINAour peoples to fortify and develop a social movementthat seeks greater health and living standard inour diverse groups and their territories.● Consequently, operating jointly and gathering diversesectors to achieve multiple actions makes HealthPromotion the feature of specific policy, inasmuch asit contains aspirations that imply deep transformationsof environments, individuals and groups, tochange negative conditions toward their human andappropriate development.● The Ottawa Letter signed in 1986 by 38 countries inthe International Conference of Canada indicatesthat, "Health Promotion consists in providing peoplewith the required resources to improve their healthand to exercise a major control over it." This meansthat people are the only ones who can transformtheir reality and make decisions about it.Therefore,health, politics, and power relations must be presentwithin our movement, as much to demand from theState as to exercise our right and responsibilities inthe management of health and life.● It is not a question of merely obtaining a budget increasefor the health sector, but a Public Health basedon health determinants must be concretized.There must be legitimate social space to assume thechallenge of change, from "an agenda centered in theconsumption of medical care services, towards thesocial production of health, with democracy and participation".This denotes we must operate to promotestructural transformations that modify thephysical, social, cultural, and political environmentsthat influence the determinants of living conditionsand health, as well as the individual environments. .● Accordingly, our proposal of proper health and life forour people is supported om the principles of solidarity,equity, justice, dignity, social participation, anduniversality; by the distribution of wealth through social,economic, cultural and health policies, by the guidanceand adherence to human rights, and by preservationof and respect towards environment. Wemust seek alliances, commitments, actions, projects,and platforms, with all the peoples and social agents,which are identified with the struggle and work for ahealthy country, wherein people enjoy life.We are the ones who are dissatisfied with thecircumstances in which we live, and especially with thecrisis of the sanitary system of the country.Thus, we,men and women of all ages and peoples of Ecuadorunder the National Front for the Health of EcuadorianPeoples (FNSPE), with the purpose of unifying all theagents of the health sector and society as a whole,must merge our forces to create a new world, and afree Ecuador that is sovereign and progressive. Wemust pursue being an example of democratic and participativepractice, which convenes governments toorient health policies away from the impositions of theInternational Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and otherinternational agencies encouraged by the interestsof large capitals and profit. This entails the devisal ofsovereign, independent, democratic policies, whereinthe axis is human beings that are active and participatory,not as objects of make-up programs that concealtheir actual nature.STRUGGLE PLATFORM OFTHE NATIONAL FRONT FORTHE HEALTH OFECUADORIAN PEOPLES● To guarantee the universal access to Integral HealthCare of good quality, according to the needs of thepopulation and not its payment capacity.240