Health Equity: 02/12/09

Thursday, February 12, 2009

[EQ] Measuring health workforce inequalities: methods and applications: call for papers - WHO/ISI

CALL FOR PAPERS for an upcoming Special Topic Meeting on:

Measuring health workforce inequalities: methods and applications

57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)

16-22 August 2009 Durban, South Africa

Statistics: Our past, present and future

The deadline for submission of abstract is 13 April 2009.
Full papers must be submitted by 15 May 2009 according to the format prescribed.
World Health Organization's Department of Human Resources for Health (WHO/HRH), in collaboration with the International Statistical Institute (ISI)

For more details, please visit: http://www.who.int/hrh/events/2009/inequalities/en/index.html

The goal of the Special Topic Meeting is to promote statistical discourse on measuring health workforce inequalities and the implications for policy and planning. Submissions should focus on methodological developments and applications for measuring health workforce inequalities, with special attention to monitoring trends (over time and/or areas) and evaluating their impacts on health systems performance and population health outcomes. Papers may be written in either of the working languages of the conference, i.e. English or French.

The WHO Department of Human Resources for Health will consider covering the costs of up to four researchers to present their papers at the Special Topic Meeting. Priority will be given to researchers from low and middle income countries who do not receive financial support from an international source.

Dr Mario R. Dal Poz Coordinator Human Resources for Health
World Health Organization

Mail: dalpozm@who.int

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[EQ] COMPARE: to understand, design, and evaluate health policies - Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts

Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE)

RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation, is conducting COMPARE

Website: http://www.randcompare.org/

COMPARE is an evidence-based approach to providing information and tools to help policymakers, the media, and other interested parties

understand, design, and evaluate health policies.

COMPARE has four objectives:

• Synthesize what is known about the current health care system.

• Describe policy options that have been proposed to address one or more existing challenges.

• Analyze the effects of different health care policy options on multiple dimensions of health system performance.

• Identify gaps in our knowledge about the effects of policy changes.

Rather than constructing specific policy proposals, COMPARE offers objective analyses of policy options currently being used,
considered, or discussed by public and private policymakers

What is the current state of the U.S. health system? What will happen if nothing is done to change health policy?
http://www.randcompare.org/current/

• Spending

• Consumer Financial Risk

• Waste

• Reliability

• Patient Experience

• Health

• Coverage

• Capacity

• Operational Feasibility

Policy Options: http://www.randcompare.org/options/

Learn about policy options for changing the health system. What are the possibilities? What do we know about them

Analysis of Options - Dashboard: http://www.randcompare.org/analysis/

To explore the effects of commonly proposed health care reforms. Click on the links to understand how changes in
insurance coverage, benefit design, payment rules, and other policy options will affect overall spending, consumer financial risk,
health, and other dimensions of performance .

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[EQ] National Accounts of Well-being

National Accounts of Well-being:

bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet

nef - The New Economics Foundation, 2009

Available online PDF [72p.] at: http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/iglzyk45xj2jksb01c14fvq424012009010050.pdf

“….National Accounts of Well-being presents proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. It demonstrates why national governments should directly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going. It calls for these measures to be collected on a regular, systematic basis and published as National Accounts of Well-being. The measures are needed because the economic indicators which governments currently rely on tell us little about the relative success or failure of countries in supporting a good life for their citizens.

This report lays out a framework for developing National Accounts of Well-being to provide:

· A new way of assessing societal progress. National Accounts of Well-being, by explicitly capturing how people feel and experience their lives, help to redefine our notions of national progress, success and what we value as a society.

· A cross-cutting and more informative approach to policy-making. The challenges now facing policy-makers, including the ‘triple crunch’ of financial crisis, climate change and oil price shocks, are unprecedented. Silo working has long been criticised; now – when the need for systemic change is clear and present – it must be overcome. National Accounts of Well-being – by capturing population well-being across areas of traditional policy-making, and looking beyond narrow, efficiency-driven economic indicators – provide policy-makers with a better chance of understanding the real impact of their decisions on people’s lives.

· Better engagement between national governments and the public. By resonating with what people care about, National Accounts of Well-being provide opportunities for national governments to reconnect with their citizens and, in doing so, to address the democratic deficit now facing many European nations…..”

Content:

Executive summary

1. Introduction

2. Why we need National Accounts of Well-being

3. Gathering momentum

4. National Accounts of Well-being: a framework

5. Findings 1: A new view of Europe

6. Findings 2: The components of national well-being

7. Findings 3: Well-being and life conditions

8. How governments will use National Accounts of Well-being

9. Towards National Accounts of Well-being: the next steps

Appendix 1: Measuring well-being – the limits of life satisfaction

Appendix 2: How the indicators were calculated

Appendix 3: European Social Survey question aggregation

Appendix 4: Country scores for all indicators

Endnotes

From: Nic Marks Founder of the centre for well-being, nef

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