[EQ] Summary report: Some are more equal than others

Summary report: Some are more equal than others...

 

National Social Marketing Centre in collaboration with the Department of Epidemiology at University College London, 2008

 

The report provides selected topline findings from its current research programme exploring people’s attitudes to health inequalities and the social determinants of health.

 

Website: http://www.nsms.org.uk/public/default.aspx?pageID=5#equal

 

PDF: http://www.nsms.org.uk/images/CoreFiles/NSMC_1093_some_are_more_equal_than_others_Report.pdf

 

Key findings include:

- The better-off are happier, more optimistic and enjoy better health

- We want society to be fair, but the better-off know it is not

- We are aware of our own position in the social hierarchy relative to others

 

The results are based on a quantitative survey conducted in August 2008. More in-depth reports will follow in 2009, which include:

- A thorough interrogation of the quantitative survey

- A cluster analysis of the findings – looking to identify factors that differentiate between groups in the population

- Findings from qualitative deliberative workshops ran in London and the North-West of England

 

 

Social marketing for health and specialised health promotion Stronger together – weaker apart

A discussion paper

 

PDF online at: http://www.nsms.org.uk/images/CoreFiles/spec-health-discussion.pdf

 

“….This paper aims to identify for discussion the common ground – and differences – between specialised health promotion and social marketing for health, in the English context. We believe there is great value in a utilitarian approach to integration between the two, which would improve practice, the effective use of resources and the impact of interventions to improve health and reduce inequalities…”

 

 

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[EQ] Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy-Making in Europe - Current status, challenges and potential

Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy-Making in Europe

Current status, challenges and potential

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

Marcial Velasco Garrido, Researcher at the Department for Health Care  Management at the University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
Finn Børlum Kristensen, Director of the Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA) and Project Leader of the EUnetHTA Project
Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen, Specialised Advisor at the Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA), Copenhagen, Denmark
Reinhard Busse, Professor of Health Care Management at the University of Technology Berlin, Germany and Associate Head for Research Policy of the European  Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Available online PDF [197p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91922.pdf

 

“…..Thanks to research and innovation, new technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations through more effective care are continuously being introduced. Indeed, health care stands to benefit from the constant developments and technological innovations in the life and health sciences in general, and in medical science in particular. However, not every technological development results in net health gains.

The history of medicine and health counts many examples of technologies which did not produce the expected benefits or even proved to be harmful. However, technologies of proven effectiveness – i.e. those associated with relevant health improvements – create a continuous challenge for health systems since their application may require additional (and not only financial) resources or existing (finite) resources to be redistributed within the health system. Health technologies pose similar challenges to health-care systems throughout the world. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that health technologies are evaluated properly and applied to health care efficaciously. In order to optimize care using the available resources, the most effective technologies should be promoted while taking consideration of organizational, societal and ethical issues…….” Introduction

 

Content:

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. Transnational collaboration on health technology  assessment – a political priority in Europe

Chapter 2. Policy processes and health technology assessment

Chapter 3. What is health technology assessment?

Chapter 4. Health systems, health policy and health technology assessment

Chapter 5. Health technology assessment in Europe – overview of the producers

Chapter 6. What are the effects of HTA reports on the health system?  Evidence from the research literature

Chapter 7. Needs and demands of policy-makers

Chapter 8. Future challenges for HTA in Europe

 

The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a partnership between the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the Governments of Belgium, Finland, Greece, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, the Veneto Region of Italy, the European Investment Bank, the Open Society Institute, the World Bank, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

 

 

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