[EQ] Medical Regulatory Authorities and the Quality of Medical Services in Canada and the United States

Medical Regulatory Authorities and the Quality of Medical Services in Canada and the United States

Milbank Memorial Fund - Co-published with the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada and the Federation of State Medical Boards
June 2008

Available online PDF [36p.] at: http://www.milbank.org/reports/0806MedServicesCanada/0806MedServicesCanada.pdf

“…..In this report leading regulators of the medical profession in Canada and the United States assess the relationship between quality improvement and the current responsibilities of authorities that license and discipline physicians…’

“….This report presents the results of the survey in the context of the history of medical regulation. Then its collective authors propose a “value proposition” for physician-led medical regulation. They describe the implications for policy arising from the survey and close with questions for their colleagues in medical regulation to ponder and then discuss with their professional colleagues and policymakers in their jurisdictions….”

Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Executive Summary The Historical and Contemporary Context of the Report The Value Proposition for Physician-Led Regulation Findings from the Survey How Medical Regulatory Authorities in Canada and the United States Could Respond to This Report What Next? Questions for Medical Regulators Appendix: Survey Sent to Medical Regulatory Authorities in Canada and the United States in March 2007 Selected Publications of the Milbank Memorial Fund Improving Population Health by Melissa Sweet and Ray Moynihan Produced in Collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2007 80 pages Regulating Medical Services in China by Hong Wang, Yanfeng Ge, and Sen Gong co-published with the Department of Social Development, Development Research Center (DRC), the State Council of P.R. China 2007 48 pages Public Housing and Supportive Services for the Frail Elderly: A Guide for Housing Authorities and Their Collaborators co-published with the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities 2006 Available online only 2005 Robert H. Ebert Memorial Lecture—Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge by Anthony S. Fauci  2006 Available online only The Future of Academic Medicine: Five Scenarios to 2025 by the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine 2005 Available online only Using Health Research in Policy and Practice: Case Studies from Nine Countries by Ray Moynihan  co-published with AcademyHealth  2004 48 pages Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments and Services: Examples to Inform Public Policy by Anthony F. Lehman, Howard H. Goldman, Lisa B. Dixon, and Rachel Churchill 2004 44 pages   Selected Publications of the Federation of State Medical Boards

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice

Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice

 

Jan Sundin and Sam Willner

Swedish National  Institute of Public Health, 2008

 

Available online PDF [252p.] at: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200721_Social_change_and_health_in_Sweden0801.pdf

 

Contents

1. 250 years of public health

Health transition after 1750

Aims, concepts and perspectives

2. Pre-Enlightenment: Life and death in God’s hand

3. Mercantilism, the Enlightenment and the birth of epidemiology

4. Society in transition: Population growth, proletarianisation and increased life expectancy (c. 1800–1870)

5. Industrialisation and hygienism (c. 1870–1920)

6. Between two wars: Towards the Swedish welfare state (1920–1945)

The epidemiological regime

Social and regional differences

The institutionalisation of maternal and child healthcare

District nurses in the line of public health duty

The fight against tuberculosis

The Bratt system – solidarity among decent folk

Solving societal problems with the help of “social medicine”

Social utopia: Scientific faith and paternalism

From urban to rural health risks: “Dirty Sweden” goes rural

The birth of the welfare state

7. Harvest time for welfare policy and medical progress (1945–2006)

Epidemiological trends

Men and women

Social differences in health

Regional differences in mortality

Harvest time for the welfare state

Urbanisation, housing crisis and the “million-homes” programme

Biomedical progress .

The health service in economic crisis

Occupational and environmental health risks

Swedish Public Health Institute

Epidemiology, risk factors and health

Restructuring the economy, social stress and health

Care of the body, the perfect body ideal and health as market commodities

Swedish public health in a global individualistic world .

A comprehensive Swedish public health policy

Health – a field of compromise

8. Conclusions – lessons from the past

Social determinants and health – a Swedish example

Health and the response of society

Health and social change .

Sweden and its European neighbours – converging systems .

Swedish history and the world today

Health and lessons from history

Reference list

Appendix .

 

 

 

 

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