Access to Healthcare and Sociocultural Determinants

Central to the ethics and practice of Médecins du Monde for over thirty years, the issue of access to healthcare poses questions for our capacity as human beings and professionals to listen to and respect others. These same concerns and intentions are evident in the various approaches —community health, participative, de-westernising— developed at MdM. By increasing the professionalism of their activities, humanitarian organisations, including MdM, have successfully developed their logistics, human resources and communications. Today, professionalisation involves incorporating the ethical and operational added-value of social sciences, to improve the quality of international solidarity work.