The Politics of Health Knowledge Network is a project of HealthWrights. After more than thirty years of work in the field, our work has evolved from curative, to preventive, to political. Realizing that children need adequate calories, clean water, basic health services, and education to thrive led to understanding the importance of focused political action to assert a community’s legal and ethical rights. In today’s top-heavy globalized world, this means organizing and networking globally from the bottom up.

HealthWrights is a 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. HealthWrights focuses on these activities: Community health: mainly in the 3rd World in the South (mainly Mexico), but increasingly in disadvantaged communities in the North. Disability issues, rights and technologies, with leadership taken by disabled persons and their families. HealthWrights works closely with PROJIMO (Program of Rehabilitation Organized by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico). Child-to-Child helping children discover ways to help protect the health and well-being of their younger brothers and sisters, and other children. Critical analysis of the man-made causes of poor health, and awareness raising to mobilize a broad-based grassroots movement to work toward fairer and healthier social structures. Networking among progressive health, disability, human rights, environmental, and other groups, to work for social change and stronger participation of under-represented groups. 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. These include all five of David Werner’s books: Where There Is No Doctor (Spanish version available) Helping Health Workers Learn (Spanish version available) by David Werner and Bill Bower Disabled Village Children (Spanish version available) Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival by David Werner and David Sanders with Jason Weston, Steve Babb and Bill Rodriguez Nothing About Us Without Us – Now in Spanish! Also published by Healthwrights:Newsletter from the Sierra Madre with reports from the field and essays on the politics of health (sent to people in over 130 countries).