Thursday, March 6, 2008

[EQ] Reminder: Revitalizing Health for All - A Call for Expressions of Interest

Revitalizing Health for All:

A Call for Expressions of Interest to Participate in New Research and Research Training in

Comprehensive Primary Health Care

The Globalization and Health Equity Research Unit at the Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa

English version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Call%20for%20Expressions%20of%20Interest%20CPHC.pdf

Spanish version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Solicitud%20de%20declaration%20de%20interes%20APSI.pdf

Deadline 31 March 2008

“…..In 2007, an international network of researchers and people involved in building comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) received funding to support research and research capacity-building. This network, associated with the People’s Health Movement, includes individuals in India, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia.

By comprehensive primary health care, we mean an approach to health systems organization and services that tries to achieve the following:

a. increased equity in access to health care and other services/resources essential to health

b. reduced vulnerabilities through changes in community empowerment (capacities)

c. reduced exposures to risk through changes in social and environmental determinants of health

d. improved participatory mechanisms and political capabilities of marginalized population groups reached by comprehensive primary health care initiatives

e. increased community resilience to enable effective responses to promote and protect health

f. equitable increase in population health outcomes

With funding support from the Canadian Global Health Research Initiative and its ‘Teasdale-Corti’ Research Program, our project goals are to:

a. systematically review recent past experiences of comprehensive primary health care from different regions of the
world to determine what we know about how it works, what it needs to work and what it has accomplished 3

b. train up to 20 early career primary health care researchers in undertaking new or augmenting existing
CPHC research studies, in teams with ‘research users’ (health policy or program planners) and research
mentors (experienced CPHC researchers)

c. provide financial support to these research teams to undertake their proposed studies

d. support the building of regional networks of researchers and research users (including civil society groups)
to advance comprehensive primary health care as the basis for health system reform in their own countries

e. create a rigorously sound knowledge base on the role of comprehensive primary health care in improving
health equity that can be used in the advocacy work of these regional networks

Call for Expressions of Interest

The project is now seeking applications (‘Expressions of Interest’) from research teams committed to developing important new knowledge and action on comprehensive primary health care. These research teams will come from one of four different areas/regions in which are focusing our overall project work:

Region 1: India and South Asia

Region 2: Africa

Region 3: Latin America

Region 4: Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Australia

Timeline:

31 March 2008: Deadline for Expressions of Interest

September – November 2008: Two week training program (see ‘Proposed Venues and Dates for Regional
Training Programs’ at end of this Call for Expressions of Interest)

October 2008 – November 2010: New funded research studies

September – November 2009: First regional meeting and 3 day Training Program

September – November 2010: Second regional meeting

Sometime in 2011: A global meeting on overall project results (to be determined, based on obtaining new funding

Contact Information:

Corinne Packer, Researcher, PhD - Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa

Email: cpacker@uottawa.ca - tel:  (613) 562-5800 ext. 2053 - fax:  (613) 562-5659

1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5

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[EQ] Developing a Canadian Economic Case for Financing the Social Determinants of Health

Developing a Canadian Economic Case for Financing the Social Determinants of Health

David Hay March 2008

Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc. CPRN

This research initiative was commissioned by the Public Health Agency of Canada

Available online as PDF file [68p.] at: http://www.cprn.org/documents/49485_EN.pdf

“…..Do investments in the social determinants of health (such as early childhood development, educational opportunities, the quality of jobs, safe communities, family income) have economic consequences?
If so, what particular investments have the strongest relationships with economic outcomes? In April 2007, CPRN, on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), convened a roundtable of national and international experts to explore the economic case for financing the social determinants of health…”

Contents

Overview of the Report

The Determinants of Health

The Determinants of Economic Performance

Policy Perspectives for Understanding Health and Well-Being

Determinants of Health, Health and the Economy

Summary and Conclusions

References

Appendix 1. Annotated Bibliography

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[EQ] The Cochrane Health Equity Field

The Cochrane Health Equity Field

Website: http://www.equity.cochrane.org/en/index.html

Newsletter: Equity Update. 2008 Mar 3;2(1).

“….Their aim is to encourage authors of Campbell and Cochrane reviews to include explicit descriptions of the effect of the interventions not only on the whole population but to describe their effect upon the disadvantaged and/or their ability to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health and to promote their use to the wider community. Ultimately, this will help build the evidence base on such interventions and increase our capacity to act on the health gap between rich and poor.

Although there is controversy over the definition, one useful definition of health inequalities is, "the virtually universal phenomenon of variation in health indicators ... associated with socioeconomic status" (Last 1995); inequalities may also be seen between genders or geographic groups, for example. Health inequalities require three components for calculation: a valid measure of health status, a measure of social position or status, and a statistical method for summarizing the magnitude of the health differences between people in different social positions. Health inequities "are unfair and remediable inequalities" (International Society for Equity in Health 2005). …”

Convenors

Prof Mark Petticrew, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Dr. Peter Tugwell, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

Administrator Erin Morris, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

International Advisory Board

The Advisory Board serves as the central coordinating body and provides guidance on the Field's scope, review methods, sources of evidence funding, dissemination and related issues. Members advise on priorities and possible collaborations, monitor progress and liaise with other Cochrane and non-Cochrane organizations to promote the Field. Members also comment on draft documentation.

Board Members:

Luis Gabriel Cuervo
Tony Dans (Philippines)
Elizabeth Kristjansson (Canada)
Ron Labonte (Canada)
Rene Loewenson (Zimbabwe)
Johan Mackenbach (Netherlands)
Andy Oxman (Norway)
Mark Petticrew (UK)
Peter Tugwell (Canada)
Jimmy Volmink (South Africa)
Elizabeth Waters (Australia)

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[EQ] The Future of Primary Healthcare in Europe

The Future of Primary Healthcare in Europe

University of Southampton, England - September 15-17, 2008

Call for proposals: http://www.nivel.nl/pdf/Call_South2602.pdf

Website: http://www.futureofprimarycare.com/?opt=0

Abstract submission deadline: Thursday, 15 May 2008

Conference themes:
The future primary health care agenda in Europe: http://www.futureofprimarycare.com/Agenda_Europe.doc

· Urgent health care

· Migration and Mobility

· Specialisms

· Changing hospital interfaces

· Workforce

· Chronic conditions

Organizing committee

European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC)

International Network of Integrated Care (INIC)

University of Southampton, School of Nursing and Midwifery (UoS)

Primary care in the twenty first century

Geoff Meads

http://www.nivel.nl/pdf/PC%20in%20the%2021st%20Century.doc

“…….the result of a three year research programme examining new organisational developments across thirty three countries. The timeframe is the post Millenium period and a shared characteristic of these countries is a ‘modernising’ policy framework for nationwide health systems reform. As a result in each country novel forms of primary care are associated with innovations in governance and regulation, public health stewardship and participation, and, in particular, in new configurations and processes for interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration. The selected countries stretch right across the globe, although, to the surprise of the Warwick University research team more ‘transferable learning’ was discerned for the United Kingdom in Latin American states than anywhere else and nine of these are included in the book’s detailed case studies.

Diederik Aarendonk, Forum Coordinator

European Forum for Primary Care
Otterstraat 118 – 124, 3513 CR Utrecht PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht
The Netherlands Web-site: http://www.euprimarycare.org/

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