Health Equity: 12/11/07

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

[EQ] FROM BRAZIL: new tool for knowledge production and interchange - RECIIS

Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health

Available online at: http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/issue/view/9/showToc

Published by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in

Health - Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde every six months.

“….The Journal publishes peer reviewed materials addressing health information, communication and innovation in the technological, economic,

institutional, social and public policy areas. It is a multidisciplinary forum for academic debate amongst researchers and post-graduate students from Brazil and abroad in the health science, biology, human and social sciences areas, biomedical area, agronomy and industrial engineering, as well as public managers, researchers and heads of bilateral and multilateral organizations and members of Non-governmental organizations….”

Table of Contents Vol 1, No 1 (2007) Edição Inaugural / Inaugural Issue

Editorial

Health arena within the present time dynamics - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.52en

PDF PT PDF EN

Carlos José Saldanha Machado

“……RECIIS, a virtual academic space for debating, pondering, establishing ideas connections and interconnections with professionals from diverse and singular institutions.

RECIIS is a free access online journal targeted to scientific production

sharing and propagation, approaching the various dimensions related to the health arena, communication and information as well as to scientific and technological innovation, within a multidisciplinary transnational

perspective. …”

Original Articles

Evaluation of the Brazilian Health Research System: some characteristics of the researchers and the scientific production - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.51en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Telma Ruth da Silva, Fernando Szklo, Rita Barradas Barata, José Noronha

The Open Access Initiative in Access to Technical and Scientific Information in Health Sciences - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.50en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Javier Sanz Valero, Jorge Veiga de Cabo, Luis D. Castiel

Mashing, Burning, Mixing and the Destructive Creativity of Web 2.0: Applications for Medical Education - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.49en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Steve Wheller, Maged N. Kamel Boulos

The Complex Dynamic of Scientific Diffusion. The case of the Ciência & Saúde Coletiva journal - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.48en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo

Culture in Hospital Organizations and Cultural Policies for Coordinating Communication and Learning - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.45en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Elói Martins Senhoras

Clinical Research in Japan: ways to Alleviate Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.44en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Koji Kawakami, Hiroko Yamane

Registration of clinical trials: the international discussion and the possible positions to be taken by Brazil - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.42en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
José da Rocha Carvalheiro, Cristiane Quental

TRIPS, Bilateralism And Patents: How They Are Failing Both the Developed And The Developing World and What To Do About It - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.40en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Luigi Palombi

Intellectual Property and Public Health: copying of HIV/Aids drugs by Brazilian public and private pharmaceutical laboratories - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.38en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Maurice Cassier, Marilena Correa

The Use of Action Research in the Management of Environmental Problems - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.37en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Michel Thiollent, Generosa de Oliveira Silva

Networks and Subjectivity in Contemporary French Philosophy - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.35en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
André Parente

Researches in Progress

Patient organizations as emerging actors in the health arena: the case of Portugal - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.29en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
João Nunes Arriscado, Marisa Matias, Ângela Marques Filipe

Grief on the Agenda of Multiprofessional Oncology and Palliative Care Teams: a Family Assistance Program at the Federal University of São Paulo - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.31en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
João Paulo Consentino Solano, Marcela Alice Bianca, Renata Moraes Ferreira

Integration of Ontologies: the domain of Bioinformatics - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.32en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos

International Cooperation and Bioprospecting in Brazil and Peru - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.33en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Camila Carneiro Dias, Maria Conceição da Costa

Technological Advances

Opening the Semantic Space in the Service of Collective Intelligence - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.43en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Pierre Lévy

Ontologies And Information And Communication Technology: Expert Systems, The Semantic Web And Integrated Management Of Electronic Government Purchases - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.47en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Laura Viana, Olga Nabuco, Carlos Saldanha

Review Articles

Innovation and Innovation Systems: relevance for the area of health - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.41en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Helena M. M. Lastres, José Eduardo Cassiolato

Essays

Gender, Democracy, and Philosophy of Science - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.39en	Abstract PDF PT PDF EN
Sandra Harding

Book Reviews

The Challenge of Scientometrics, Loet Leydesdorff - Book Review DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.34en	PDF PT PDF EN
Lea Velho

The Knowledge-based Economy: modeled, measured, simulated, Loet Leydesdorff - Book Review DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v1i1.36en	PDF PT PDF EN
Lia Hasenclever, Evaldo H. Silva

Vol. 1 n. 2 - Dezembro (December) 2007
O segundo número da RECIIS virá com um Suplemento temático sobre Bioinformática e Saúde. *The second issue of RECIIS will have an thematic Supplement on Bioinformatics and Health*

Alvaro Matida, Secretário Executivo da Abrasco

R. Leopoldo Bulhões 1480, sala 208

Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil 21041-210
Tel. 55-21-2598-2527 Tel.Fax. 55-21-25608699 ou 2560-8403 www.abrasco.org.br

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[EQ] Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement

Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement

Staci Warden, The Center for Global Development, December 2007

…..International corporations interested in joining the fight against global poverty can choose from a wide range of options, according to a new CGD report .
The report suggests six approaches for corporations to consider. Based on interviews with senior executives at 15 firms with global reach, it includes stories about what has worked (and what hasn't) and describes some of the advantages that companies have found in working for development…”

Website: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15004

PDF Available online [48p] at: http://www.cgdev.org/files/15004_file_corporate_engagement_web.pdf

“…..In the last decade more and more of the world's leading corporations have sought and found ways to join in the fight against global poverty. In an increasingly interdependent world, there are many opportunities to do good while doing well commercially. Yet the approaches taken, and the logic of different tactics by different companies, have not been much studied.

This new report, based on interviews with 15 corporations that have been active in "development" work in poor countries, offers a menu of six approaches.

• Standards Compliance: adhering to high standards for workers' rights, environmental protection, or other development issues

• Charitable Giving: through a company foundation or by supporting public or non-profit charitable organizations

• Resource Engagement: directly contributing a company's goods or services

• Commercial Leverage: companies doing well by doing good

• Development Entrepreneurship: where an explicit commitment to the poor is the core business strategy

• Policy Advocacy: using the company's influence to improve the policy environment for development, in the host country or home country.

It also offers practical anecdotes about what has worked for corporations (and what hasn't), and explains some of the advantages companies have found in pursuing a developmental agenda, including reputational benefits and attracting informed customers. One of the guiding principles of the report is that companies bring much more to the table than money. Financial resources are often necessary, but corporations' skills, ideas, and ways of operating in the marketplace can make a much greater contribution…..”

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[EQ] The Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition

The Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the College Board

Deadline to register and upload your 2007-08 YES project: February 4, 2008, 5 p.m. Eastern Time

YES National Event, Washington D.C., April, 2008

Website: http://www.collegeboard.com/yes/fs/atc.html

“…... The Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition for original student research is designed to inspire talented students to investigate the many behavioral, biological, environmental and social factors that affect health and, based upon this knowledge, to identify ways to improve the health of the public.

The YES Competition awards up to 120 college scholarships each year to high school juniors and seniors who conduct outstanding research projects that apply epidemiological methods of analysis to a health-related issue.

Epidemiologists seek answers to why some people get sick and others don't. In other words, epidemiology is the science of exploring patterns of disease, illness and injury within populations, with the goal of developing methods for prevention, control and treatment to improve health.

The basic skills required by epidemiology- framing the right question, collecting relevant information and analyzing it to answer the question- are skills that will help students succeed in any area of future work. The study and application of epidemiology promotes a way of thinking that can be used effectively in both scientific and nonscientific settings. As a science, epidemiology helps explain the world in which we live and has strong links to personal decisions that each of us makes every day. As a way of thinking, epidemiology can help explain significant historical events and inform current decision-making in a broad variety of sectors. Leaders of communities, states and countries often rely on epidemiological analysis of data when they make critical policy decisions that may affect the well-being of their residents…..”

Epidemiology Teaching Units for the High School Classroom

Teaching Units: http://www.collegeboard.com/yes/ft/iu/home.html
All of the high school-level instructional units on this site are designed for you freely to download and use in your classroom.

Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Program
The College Board
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Reston VA 20190
Tel: (800) 626-9795, ext. 5849 Fax: (703) 707-5599 Email: yes@collegeboard.org

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