[EQ] The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health - Keynote Lecture will be broadcast by satellite and Internet

The Impact of Poverty, Culture, and Environment on Minority Health Featuring the 10th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture: The Science and Epidemiology of Racism and Health in the United States: an Ecosocial Perspective by Nancy Krieger, M.S., Ph.D.   (About Dr. Krieger)   (Lecture abstract)

February 29, 2008 The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, Chapel Hill, NC   Website: http://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2008/

Keynote Lecture will be broadcast by satellite and Internet at 2:00-3:30pm EST on February 29, 2008 (free downlink, live questions and discussion)

The 29th Annual Minority Health Conference and the 10th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture are presented by the UNC School of Public Health Minority Student Caucus [website] in collaboration with   NC Institute for Public Health [website]   UNC School of Public Health Dean's Office [website]    The satellite and Internet broadcasts of the 10th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture are presented by the UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Project [website] in collaboration with UNC School of Public Health Instructional and Information Services [website]

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About the Annual Minority Health Conference Minority Student Caucus About Dean William T. Small, Jr. Minority health-related links at UNC and elsewhere Minority Health Project

 

 

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[EQ] The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Health and Development in Rural Ecuador

Does Money Matter? The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Health and Development in Rural Ecuador

Christina Paxson, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University

Norbert Schady, World Bank

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4226, May 2007

 

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/05/03/000016406_20070503092958/Rendered/PDF/wps4226.pdf

 

“….This paper examines how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that have been implemented recently in Latin America, receipt of the cash transfers was not conditioned on specific parental actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school. This feature of the program makes it possible to assess whether conditionality is necessary for programs to have beneficial effects on children.

 

Random assignment at the parish level is used to identify the program’s effects. We find that the cash transfer program had positive effects on the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development of children, and the treatment effects were substantially larger for the poorer children than for less poor children.

Among the poorest children in our sample, children whose mothers were eligible for transfers had outcomes that were on average more than 20 percent of a standard deviation higher than those for comparable children in the control group. Treatment effects are somewhat larger for girls and for children with more highly educated mothers. We examine three mechanisms:
- better nutrition,
- greater use of health care, and
- better parenting
through which the transfers might influence child development. The program appeared to improve children’s nutrition and increased the chance they were treated for helminth infections. However, children in the treatment group were not more likely to visit health clinics for growth monitoring, and the mental health and parenting of their mothers did not improve.

 

 

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[EQ] UK Health inequality target monitoring

 

Health inequality target monitoring: update to include data for 2006

 

UK Department of Health - 14 December 2007

 

            Website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_081280

 

Download infant mortality report (PDF, 157K)
Download life expectancy report (PDF, 122K)

Download mortality report (PDF, 150K)

 

“…. These reports summarise progress against Department of Health inequality targets for 2010 in the following areas: Infant mortality; life expectancy at birth for males and for females; cancer (premature mortality rate) and all circulatory diseases (premature mortality rate).

Key facts

Infant mortality

The inequality gap in the infant mortality rate has reduced for the second consecutive period, though not yet by a sufficient amount to meet the target, based on the trend since the current socio economic classifications were introduced in 2001.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_081337

 

Life expectancy at birth (males and females)

The inequality gaps in male and female life expectancy at birth have both increased since the baseline. If current trends continue, the target would not be met.

 

Cancer mortality

The inequality gap in cancer mortality has declined since the baseline (despite a slight increase in the latest period), and the minimum requirement for the 2010 target has already been met.

 

All circulatory diseases mortality

The inequality gap in circulatory disease mortality has declined, and is on track to meet the target.

 

Website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_081280

 

 

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[EQ] Tackling health inequalities - Final Report

Project on tackling health inequalities

Erasmus MC - Rotterdam Netherlands - Final Eurothine Report  - August 20, 2007

Eurothine_final_report_complete.zip     6.0 MB:
http://mgzlx4.erasmusmc.nl/eurothine/uploads/eurothine_final_report_complete.zip - 646 pages

 

Website: http://survey.erasmusmc.nl/eurothine/

 

“….project to facilitate learning by collecting and analysing information from different European countries that will help policy-makers at the European and national level to develop rational strategies for tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health.

 

Objectives:

1. To develop and collect health inequalities indicators, and to provide bench-marking data on inequalities in health and health determinants to participating countries;

2. To assess evidence on the effectiveness of policies and interventions to tackle the determinants of health inequalities, and to make recommendations on strategies for reducing health inequalities in participating countries

3. To disseminate the results, and to develop a proposal for a permanent European clearing house on tackling health inequalities.

 

Self-assessed health - new integral measure

The papers on the development and application of a new integral measure of self-assessed health (SAH):

	Kunst_Paper_Sah_West_5.pdf	107.51 KB
	Kunst_Sah_And_Smoking_Bmi.pdf	155.28 KB

 

 

External links

http://www.health-inequalities.nl
http://www.health-inequalities.org
http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/index_en.htm
http://www.erasmusmc.nl
Dept of Health Public Health Research Consortium York, UK
Eurocadet - Towards less cancer in Europe
Institute for research and information in health economics (IRDES), France

 

 

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