Global health activists' lessons on building social movements for Health for all

The People's Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care's 'Health for All' (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global counter-hegemonic social movement. This study aimed to gain insights on social movement building, drawing on the successes and failures reported by activists over their experiences of working in the Health for All social movement to improve health, justice and equity. Methods: Qualitative research methods were employed in this study to capture complex and historical narratives of individual activists, through semi-structured interviews and subsequent thematic analysis of transcripts. The research design and analysis were informed by social movement theory and literature on health activism as a pathway for social change

Producer Services Linkages in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta Region

In the past two decades there has been growing interest in the development of integrated acoustic sensors. Sensors based on bulk (BAW) [1,2] and surface (SAW) [3,4] were reported. Most of these sensors operate in a gaseous medium, although a few are used with liquids or solids, to determine concentrations of chemical and biological substances, as well as viscosity, acceleration, temperature, pressure, etc. Recently, Wenzel and White [5] have found out that flexural plate wave gravimetric sensors can have higher mass sensitivity at low operating frequencies (a few MHz) than the BAW or SAW counterparts. The lowest flexural (antisymmetric) Lamb mode, A0, was used for thin isotropic plates [5]. The thickness of the plates is much smaller than an acoustic wavelength