Promoting health and human rights with those who have no voice. Visit us at http://www.dghonline.org/
Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DGH is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees and others. Together we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues.
DGH has a unique way of carrying out its mission, focusing on helping to make underserved communities healthy but in the broadest definition of health possible. DGH helps bring community-oriented primary care to the communities where it works, providing basic health services. In addition, DGH believes education is essential to a community's health, as is economic wellbeing and environmental safety. DGH also promotes human rights, which leads to self-determination, as a fundamental component of health. Furthermore, DGH interweaves the arts into its work, believing the soul needs nourishing as much as the body. DGH works closely with the communities which it accompanies in participatory investigation: being invited by the community, working with it to explore its strengths and weaknesses in health, establishing priorities toward better health, developing initiatives to address the chosen priorities and evaluating their success. DGH works side-by-side with community members as partners rather than clients or victims.
DGH affirms that every human being regardless of geographic location, physical or mental disability, culture, age or other attribute, has the right to a life of dignity, equal treatment and social justice. We consciously, conscientiously use health to promote human dignity and social justice with those most in need by accompanying communities, while educating and inspiring others to action.
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DGH believes in accompaniment and community empowerment. We only work in areas where we have been invited and welcomed by the communities. We also believe in participatory investigation, which we define as investigating with the communities what their health needs are and then working with them to help meet those needs. These strongly held beliefs have led to a variety of projects, illustrating that "health" encompasses a lot more than the absence of disease and the availability of medical treatment.
Our communities:
Chiapas, Mexico
Estancia, El Salvador
Europe
Guatemala
Kisoro, Uganda
Oaxaca, Mexico
Santa Marta, El Salvador
United States
