[EQ] UK - The NHS at 60: Perspectives in Health Care Systems

From: David McDaid, LSE Health and Social Care
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008

NHS at 60: Perspectives on Health Care Systems

Social History of Medicine - Volume 21, Number 3, December 2008   

The British National Health Service 1948-2008: A Review of the Historiography
Martin Gorsky, Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 437-460; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn064. Open Access

http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/437?etoc

“….This article surveys historical writing on the British National Health Service since its inception in 1948. Its main focus is on policy-making and organisation and its principal concerns are primary care and the hospital sector, although public health, and psychiatric and geriatric care are briefly discussed…”

History and Health Policy in the United States: The Making of a Health Care Industry, 1948-2008
Rosemary A. Stevens, Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry, New York
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 461-483; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn063. [Subscription required]

http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/461?etoc

“…….This article considers the history of American health care over the past 60 years, reflecting the diverse ways in which health care is embedded in the economy, politics, power structures and culture of the United States and discussing what it is like to have a health care industry without having a national health service or universal health insurance.
The article concludes that, since the Second World War, the United States has been successful in achieving highly specialized, valued, life-improving health care for most—not for all—members of the population, but at a huge and rising cost. Notable achievements have been produced by the public–private mix of the American health enterprise. However, broad questions of social class, illness, insurance and the burden of payment for health care remain in a society with widening divisions of the population by socio-economic class, education, health literacy and computer skills….”

'Vision and Vested Interests': National Health Service Reform in South Africa and Britain during the 1940s and Beyond
Anne Digby, Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 485-502; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn061. [Subscription required]

http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/485?etoc

A National Health Service, By Comparison
Richard Freeman, Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
Soc Hist Med 2008 21: 503-520; doi:10.1093/shm/hkn065. [Subscription required]

http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/503?etoc

“….The National Health Service (NHS) has always been compared to other things, to other organisations and systems both at home and abroad. This paper explores those comparisons, beginning with the origins of national public health care in Lloyd George's study of German social insurance, and ending with Gordon Brown's claims for the NHS as ‘the best insurance policy in the world’. It considers the comparisons and contrasts made for and with the NHS at the time of its foundation and the comparison of state and market around 1990, before reviewing the contemporary function of comparison as form and basis of health governance. The paper presents three related patterns of thought: one prompted by encounter with the other, one sustained by metaphor and one developed in more formal, analytic comparison. It concludes by discussing why comparison itself is such a dangerous and contested thing….”.

 

 

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[EQ] Developing a Tool to Measure Knowledge Exchange Outcomes

DEVELOPING A TOOL TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE OUTCOMES

 

Kelly Skinner, University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario

The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation Vol. 22 No. 1 Pages 49–73

ISSN 0834-1516 Copyright © 2007 Canadian Evaluation Society

 

Available online as PDf file [25p.] at; http://www.nccmt.ca/uploads/registry/Skinner%20Article%20PDF.pdf

 

“…….This article describes the process of developing measures to assess knowledge exchange outcomes using the dissemination of a best practices in type 2 diabetes document as a specific example.

 

A best practices model consists of knowledge synthesis, knowledge exchange (dissemination/adoption), and evaluation stages. Best practices are required at each stage. An extensive literature review found no previous knowledge syntheses of concrete tools and models for evaluating dissemination or exchange strategies.

 

This project developed a practical and usable tool to measure the reach and uptake of disseminated innovations. The instrument itself facilitates an opportunity for knowledge exchange to occur between producers and adopters. At this point the tool has a strong theoretical basis. Initial pilot-testing has begun; however, the accumulation of evidence of validity and reliability is only in the planning stages. The instrument described here can be adapted to other areas of population health and evaluation research….”

 

 

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[EQ] Fostering innovation for global health

Fostering innovation for global health

Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5

2008, Pro-Brook Publishing Limited, 192 pages (English). ISBN 978-2-940401-12-3
The Global Forum for Health Research

Full text available online [155p.] at: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/global_update5/Update5_FullDoc.pdf

Website:
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/002__What%20we%20do/005__Publications/002__Global%20Forum%20Update%20on%20Research%20for%20Health.php

“……….Innovation for health is a vital driver of development. Drawing new ideas and discoveries from research, it may cross many sectors and disciplines involved in the development and application of a novel product or process.

The Global Forum for Health Research focuses on promoting an environment that fosters innovative solutions for the health of poor populations. In doing so, it places particular emphasis on health equity as the central goal, i.e. reducing health disparities within and between populations.

The fifth volume of the Global Forum Update on Research for Health provides insights into the newest thinking on innovation for global health.
Some 30 leading institutions and professionals from around the world reflect on how policy, social, technological and corporate innovations can be fostered for global health………”

Table of Contents

Foreword/Préface Gill Samuels
The scope and potential of innovation for health and health equity Stephen A Matlin
INNOVATING FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and innovation in Brazil: the institutional role of the Ministry of Health Suzanne Jacob Serruya with Reinaldo Guimarães, Itajai Oliveira de Albuquerque and Carlos Medicis Morel
Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity Gerald Bloom with Claire Champion, Henry Lucas, M Hafizur Rahman, Abbas Bhuiya, Oladimeji Oladepo and David Peters
Strengthening the base: innovation and convergence in climate change and public health Saqib Shahab with Abdul Ghaffar
Global health diplomacy – a bridge to innovative collaborative action Thomas E Novotny and Ilona Kickbusch with Hannah Leslie and Vincanne Adams
Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize Kiyoshi Kurokawa with Tamaki Tsukada and Eri Maeda
Health research and innovation: recent Spanish policies Flora de Pablo with Isabel Noguer
The changing landscape of research for health Kirsten Havemann with introduction by Ulla Tørnæs
Global health and the foreign policy agenda Jonas Gahr Støre
“Policies for innovation”: evidence-based policy innovation – transforming constraints into opportunities Miguel Angel González Block
SOCIAL INNOVATIONS
Interactions between populations, health workers and health programmes for prevention of malaria: teachings of an analysis “from below” Yannick Jaffré
Ethical aspects of innovation in health José Geraldo de Freitas Drumond
Ethics, evidence and innovation Kenneth W Goodman
Seeding a global movement on neglected diseases Sandeep P Kishore with Pius Mulamira
Supporting implementation research partnerships for health systems strengthening: one foundation’s approach in sub-Saharan Africa Elaine K Gallin
The practical impact of research in South-East Asia funded by the Wellcome Trust Jimmy Whitworth with Ruth Branston and Michael Chew
Independence and innovation: looking beyond the magic of words Xavier Crombé
Creating incentives to induce behavioural change and improve health: success and limitations of conditional cash transfer programmes Mylene Lagarde with Andy Haines and Natasha Palmer
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
Innovation and access: medicines for the poor – the IGWG strategy and plan of action Bart Wijnberg and Marleen Monster
The Noordwijk Medicines Agenda: a model for changing innovation for neglected and emerging infectious diseases Bénédicte Callan with Susanne L Huttner, Iain Gillespie and Barbara Slater
Health dynamics, innovation and the slow race to make technology work for the poor Melissa Leach with Ian Scoones
Leapfrog technologies for health and development Harry McConnell with Prita Chathoth, Ashley Pardy, Camille Boostrom, Eugene Boostrom, Koos Louw, Luis Gabriel Cuervo and Sumiko Ogawa
The IVI’s innovative approach to closing the gap between vaccines for industrialized and developing countries Denise DeRoeck with Anna Lena Lopez, Rodney Carbis and John D Clemens
Commercializing African health research: building life science convergence platforms Peter A Singer and Abdallah S Daar with Sara Al-Bader, Ronak Shah, Ken Simiyu, Ryan E Wiley, Pamela Kanellis, Menaka Pulandiran and Marilyn Heymann
CORPORATE SECTOR-RELATED INNOVATIONS
Making drugs accessible to poor populations: a funding model Paul L Herrling
Public-private partnerships drive innovation to improve the health of poor populations Christopher J Elias with Yvette Gerrans and F Marc LaForce
Innovations and incentives: why pharmaceutical companies are becoming interested in neglected tropical diseases Arianne Matlin
Vision for a venturing ecosystem to generate global health innovation William Rosenzweig
Beyond product: the private sector drive to perform with the purpose of alleviating global under-nutrition Dondeena Bradley
Innovating against hunger and under-nutrition Josette Sheeran
Riders for Health: an award-winning social enterprise ensuring health care delivery across Africa Ngwarati Mashonga
UNITAID: innovative financing to scale up access to medicines Jorge Bermudez
Threshold of evidence needed for health claims on functional foods Peter J Jones with Stephanie Jew
The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: innovation to fight a disease Patrizia Carlevaro

 

 

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