The International People’s Health Council (IPHC) is a worldwide coalition of people’s health initiatives and socially progressive groups and movements committed to working for the health and rights of disadvantaged people – and ultimately of all people. Although most of the founding members of the IPHC are from the South, the aim of the IPHC is to be a South-North network, including grassroots struggles for health and rights of the growing numbers of poor and disadvantaged people in both underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries. IPHC is a founding member of the People’s Health Movement.
The vision of the IPHC is to advance toward Health for All – viewing health in the broad sense of physical, mental, social, economic, and environmental well-being. The IPHC maintains that Health for All can only be achieved through:
- participatory democracy – decision-making power by the people
- equity – in terms of equal rights and everyone’s basic needs, and
- acountability of government and industry, with strong input by ordinary people in the decisions that affect their lives.