Health Equity: 01/14/09

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

[EQ] Call for Nominations 2009 The Carso Health Institute Awards in health, nutrition and environment

FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Deadline for receiving online nominations: January 26th, 2009

THE CARSO HEALTH INSTITUTE:
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS TO THE THREE CATEGORIES OF THE 2009 CARSO AWARDS IN HEALTH, NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT

English: http://www.salud.carso.org/ca_pcs_09_ing.html

Spanish:http://www.salud.carso.org/ca_pcs_09.html

The CARSO AWARDS, an initiative of the Carso Health Institute, aim at promoting the development of human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthening the formation of leaders that can push forward the research and innovation agenda in the region within the health and nutrition fields.

1. PREMIO CARSO for Life Achievement in Research

This award honors those individuals who, after devoting their professional lives to research in the fields of health, nutrition or the environment, have irrefutably contributed to the development of the health sciences and have promoted leadership of the Latin America region in these areas.

2. PREMIO CARSO for Technological Innovation

This award is aimed at acknowledging front-line people or institutions whose promotion of innovative applications in communications technology has contributed to bringing health and its benefits closer to the population of Latin America.

3. PREMIO CARSO for Outstanding Institution

This award pays tribute to those programs of non-for profit organizations whose contribution within the Latin American Region, whether academic or in the field, represents new and better health, nutrition and environmental alternatives for the population in the region.

On its first edition, the Carso Award winners were:

2008 Carso Award for Outstanding achievement in health research - Dr. Cesar Victora, Brazil

2008 Carso Award for innovations in health systems - Dr. Guillermo Soberón, Mexico

2008 Carso Award to outstanding institutions or programs - Socios en Salud , Sucursal Peru

Mtra. Victoria Márquez-Mees - rectora de Inversión Social

Instituto Carso de la Salud

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[EQ] Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases - Experiences from Europe and Latin America

Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases.
Experiences from Europe and Latin America

Published by Open University Press
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies series 2008

Editors: Richard Coker is Reader in Communicable Diseases Policy Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rifat Atun is Professor of International Health Management at Imperial College London
Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Research Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Available online [297p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91946.pdf

“…..Health systems everywhere face constant change as they seek to respond to evolving patterns of disease. This is especially true with communicable diseases where humanity is engaged in a constant evolutionary struggle with microorganisms that are able to adapt rapidly to a changing world.

This fascinating book looks at two regions where the pace of change is especially rapid, Europe and Latin America – places where health systems are themselves undergoing rapid organizational transition.

The book begins with an historical overview of the way in which humans and microorganisms have always competed, before examining the current status of this evolutionary struggle. It assesses the extent to which human societies and their governments are prepared for the challenges ahead and reviews the experiences of countries in Europe and Latin America in developing effective responses.

Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases will be of interest to policy-makers in high- and middle-income countries, and to students of the creation and implementation of health policy….”

Content:

1. Contemporary emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases: challenges to control

Richard Coker, Rifat Atun, Martin McKee

2. The changing face of transitional societies

Martin McKee, Jane Falkingham

3. Effective governmental responses to communicable disease challenges in transitional societies

Kelley Lee, John Wyn Owen

4. A continuing evolutionary struggle: microbes and man 61

Anthony McMichael

5. Communicable disease in Europe

Shazia Karmali, Andrew Amato-Gauci, Andrea Ammon, Martin McKee

6. Communicable disease in Latin America and the Caribbean

Oscar Echeverri, Patricio Marquez, Enis Baris

7. Health systems and systems thinking

Rifat Atun, Nata Menabde

8. International and European responses to the threat of communicable disease

Ralph Reintjes

9. HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis control in post-Soviet Union countries

Nina Schwalbe, Jeffrey Lazarus, Olusoji Adeyi

10. Enabling health systems in tuberculosis control: challenges and opportunities for the former Soviet Union countries

Andrei Mosneaga, Elena Yurasova, Richard Zaleskis, Wieslaw Jakubowiak

11. Health systems and communicable disease control: emerging evidence and lessons from central and eastern Europe

Rifat Atun, Richard Coker

12. Health system reforms and communicable disease in Latin America and the Caribbean

Patricio Marquez, Oscar Echeverri, Enis Baris

13. Brazil’s response to AIDS and tuberculosis: lessons from a transitional economy

Eduardo Gómez

14. Health financing and communicable disease control: conceptual issues and implications

Rifat Atun, Claudio Politti, Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Joseph Kutzin

15. Health systems and communicable diseases: predicting and responding to future challenges

Richard Coker, Ana Mensua, Rifat Atun, Martin McKee

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[EQ] Conference on Better evidence for a better world - The Campbell Collaboration colloquium

The Campbell Collaboration colloquium

Conference on Better evidence for a better world

Oslo, Norway, May 18–19, 2009

Website: http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/Colloquium/Colloquium.shtml

“….How can we improve our schools? How do we best protect our community from crime? How should we care for the homeless? As with health, there is an abundance of questions concerning the effectiveness of interventions and the balance between good and harmful effects, in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.

Together, these areas comprise much of what society is about: creating a safe environment for children to grow up in and encouraging learning and equal opportunities for all, while providing safety nets for those in need. As underlined by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, education, protection from crime, and social welfare also clearly constitute the broader determinants of health. Action is needed outside of health care to improve life expectancy and health.

This conference on “Better evidence for a better world” especially welcomes contributions from low-income and middle-income countries. To assess the effect of attempts to improve how people are born, grow, live, work, and age in poor countries is very important. We aim to show how the social and medical arenas inter-relate and how interventions often target the same individuals across disciplines.

The conference will highlight the need for relevant and reliable evidence, and encourage the building of a world library of systematic reviews aimed at summarising that evidence. Hence we are interested in both primary research and systematic reviews.

Hans Rosling to address the Annual Colloquium

Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Insitute, will address the opening session of our Annual Colloquium in Oslo.

The 2009 Jerry Lee Lecture - Dr. Jonathan Shepherd will give the lecture on the topic "Public Health contributions to Violence Prevention".

The deadline for submission is January 15, 2009. Please submit via the online submission webpage.
If you should experience technical difficulties with your abstract submission, please contact us by e-mail at colloquium2009@c2admin.org.

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