The Rational Medicine Network upholds and supports the theory and practice of Universal Health Care — a movement arising from the 1970s campaigns for the rational use of drugs and pharmaceutical products. Currently, the focus is on developing healthcare in ways that are good for the patient, good for the planet, and good for the pocket.
Rational Medicine Network
Community-based colleagues working on the ground in West Bengal, India — without corporate or large international NGO funding — contributing to Evidence-Creating Medicine within real resource limits.
Evidence-Creating Medicine (ECM) Group
A voluntary, informal multidisciplinary network of physiologists, physiotherapists, nurses, health workers, and medical doctors, who treat day-to-day practice as an iterative scientific process and capture real-life data for continuous improvement.
Founding principles · Alma-Ata
- Equity
- Community participation
- Intersectoral approach
- Appropriate technology
- Focus on prevention
Help build affordable, sustainable, humane healthcare — for everyone.
Clinicians, physiologists, physiotherapists, nurses, health workers and researchers are welcome. No corporate funding. No conflicts of interest.