Health Equity: 11/02/07

Friday, November 2, 2007

[EQ] New PLoS Journal: Neglected Tropical Diseases- Turning point in the long and notorious history of some of humanity's oldest diseases

Launch Issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A New Voice for the Poor

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) launched PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Website: http://www.plosntds.org, November 2007

An open-access journal specifically devoted to raising the profile of the ancient diseases of poverty, such as river blindness,
elephantiasis, hookworm, leprosy, and schistosomiasis.

Largely confined to the unseen rural areas of the developing world, the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which are chronic, disabling, and often stigmatizing, have for centuries been the forgotten diseases of forgotten people. The new journal, supported by a start-up grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to help turn back this tide of neglect.

Editorial

A New Voice for the Poor

Peter Hotez at: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000077

A Turning Point in the History of Humanity's Oldest Diseases: Guest Commentary by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan at; http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000065

Research Ethics and Reporting Standards at PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Gavin Yamey at: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000069

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information Related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic
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[EQ] Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Health Care Workforce

Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada’s Health Care Workforce

Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2007

Full Report

· Download Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Health Care Workforce (PDF) 947 KB

Download by Section

· Canada's Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathologist Workforce 1779 KB

· Canada's Dental Assistant Workforce 746 KB

· Canada's Dentist Workforce 774 KB

· Canada's Dental Hygienist and Dental Therapist Workforce 768 KB

· Canada's Medical Sonographer Workforce 635 KB

· Medical Laboratory Technologist and Pathologists and Assistant Workforce 753 KB

· Canada's Medical Laboratory Technician Workforce 788 KB

· Medical Radiation Technologist Workforce 764 KB

· Respiratory Therapist, Clinical Perfusionist and Cardiopulmonary Technologist 684 KB

“…..The distribution of health care providers is constantly changing. It is influenced by many factors such as both internal and external migration. Understanding and measuring where exactly these health professionals are located and how they move within the country is critical to the proper planning and management of the health care system.

This series of reports uses a combination of Statistics Canada Census of Population and Scott's Medical Database data to examine internal migration - the movement of health care workers within provinces or territories or from one province or territory to another.

Full reports were prepared for 15 health professional groups and data tables for an additional ten. In addition, the Summary Report: Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Health Care Workforce provides a consolidated overview of the internal migration patterns of Canada's health professionals.

Summary Report: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/2007_migration_summary_e_web.pdf

Video: Migration of Health Human Resources in Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction

Highlights

Workforce Characteristics

Internal Migration Patterns

Workforce Numbers

Demographic Trends

Sex

Age

Geographical Distribution

Health Care Provider-to-Population Ratios

Rural Distribution

Internal Migration Patterns

Migration Composition

Interprovincial Migration

Rural–Urban Migration

Methodological Notes

Data Sources

Workforce Numbers and Demographic Characteristics

Geographical Units of Analysis

Internal Migration

Determinants of Migration

References

Detailed Reports:

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathologist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Dental Assistant Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Dentist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Dental Hygienist and Dental Therapist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Medical Sonographer Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Medical Laboratory Technologist and Pathologists and Assistant Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Medical Laboratory Technician Workforce

· Medical Radiation Technologist Workforce

· Respiratory Therapist, Clinical Perfusionist and Cardiopulmonary Technologist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's LPN Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Occupational Therapist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Pharmacist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Physiotherapist Workforce

· Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Registered Nurse Workforce

Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Physician Workforce

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[EQ] Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them

Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them

Sally Macintyre, Occasional Paper Number 17- October 2007

MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Available online PDF [19p.] at: http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/files/File/reports/OP017.pdf

In this paper she outlines key facts about socio-economic inequalities in health in Scotland.

She recommends key principles for effective policies to reduce inequalities in health.

These include:

· Maintaining and extending equity in health and welfare systems

· Levelling up, not down

· Reducing inequalities in life circumstances, especially education, employment, and income

· Prioritising early years interventions, and families with children

Summarising lessons learnt from research on how best to reduce inequalities in health,
the paper recommends putting a high priority on changes in the physical and social environment
(for example, building and planning regulations, fiscal policies, and reducing price barriers to health-promoting goods and services),
rather than information-based campaigns or interventions which require people to opt in.

Table of Contents

Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them? 1

What are inequalities in health, and what causes them?

Social gradients in health and health risks

Policy issues and principles

What do we know about what works to reduce inequalities in health?

What do we know about what is likely to reduce inequalities in health?

Possibly competing goals

Appendix 1: Chronology of selected reports and actions on inequalities in health in the UK

References

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