Friday, June 27, 2008

[EQ] The Rich Get Hungrier

The Rich Get Hungrier

By AMARTYA SEN

Published: May 28, 2008 Cambridge, Mass.

The New York Times - Op-Ed Contributor

Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/opinion/28sen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

“………WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up — or grow worse over time? The answer may be both. The recent rise in food prices has largely been caused by temporary problems like drought in Australia, Ukraine and elsewhere. Though the need for huge rescue operations is urgent, the present acute crisis will eventually end. But underlying it is a basic problem that will only intensify unless we recognize it and try to remedy it.

It is a tale of two peoples. In one version of the story, a country with a lot of poor people suddenly experiences fast economic expansion, but only half of the people share in the new prosperity. The favored ones spend a lot of their new income on food, and unless supply expands very quickly, prices shoot up. The rest of the poor now face higher food prices but no greater income, and begin to starve. Tragedies like this happen repeatedly in the world………..”

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[EQ] Economic costs of ill health in the European Region

Economic costs of ill health in the European Region

Marc Suhrcke, Regina Sauto Arce, Martin McKee and Lorenzo Rocco

World Health Organization and World Health Organization, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 2008

Available online as PDF file [26p.] at:

http://www.euro.who.int/document/hsm/1_hsc08_eBD1.pdf

“….Evidence on the economic costs of ill health (or, reversely, the benefits of good health) is essential in assessing the economic return on health investment. But

understanding what those costs/benefits mean and how they should be measured is equally essential. Public policy discourse on the economic consequences/costs of ill health has been handicapped by considerable confusion about what the term means. Noting that without an a priori definition of the cost concept at issue no meaningful discourse can ensue, we address three economic concepts.

1. The broadest, most relevant concept is social welfare costs/benefits, which attempts to capture the value people place on better health.

2. The more limited but more tangible concept, micro and macroeconomic costs, looks at, for instance, the foregone earnings of
individuals/households and the GDP losses countries incur, respectively, due to the ill health of a household member or the national population.

3. The most limited but nevertheless widely applied cost concept looks at the additional health-care expenditures that may be associated with ill health….”

Contents

Key messages

Executive summary

Economic costs of ill health in the European Region

1. Introduction

2. Broad perspective: social welfare costs

3. Limited perspective: micro- and macroeconomic costs

3.1 Microeconomic costs

3.2 Macroeconomic costs

4. Very limited perspective: health-care costs

5. Concluding remarks

References

Also:

Performance measurement for health system improvement: experiences, challenges and prospects (Summary) [pdf, 437KB]

Smith PC, Mossialos E, Leatherman S, Papanicolas I, eds. WHO/Europe, 2008

available in: fr[pdf, 334KB], de[pdf, 446KB], ru[pdf, 572KB]

Health systems, health and wealth – Assessing the case for investing in health systems (Summmary) [pdf, 568KB]

. Figueras J, McKee M, Lessof S, Duran A, Menabde N, eds. WHO/Europe, 2008

available in: fr[pdf, 105KB], de[pdf, 94KB], ru[pdf, 1MB]

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[EQ] Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences

Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences

The Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH

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A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category.

This table separates the Grants and Fellowships into different categories. For example, those interested only in grants and fellowships for health professionals should click on the link in column 1 row 2.

Pre-doctoral/Graduate	Post-doctoral	Faculty
Health Professionals	Institutions	Addendum: Travel

Website: http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/directory_fellowships.htm

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