Health Equity: 03/18/09

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

[EQ] The Decline and Rise of Public Spaces

The Decline and Rise of Public Spaces

Claus Offe, Hartmut Häußermann, Donatella della Porta, Bernd M. Scherer, Lea Ypi, Marc Morjé Howard, Christian Joppke,
Antanus Mockus, Maarten Hajer, Wytske Verburg et al.
Papers and Presentations from the International HSoG Conference, October 2008

Hertie School of Governance, Working Paper No.39 February 2009

Available online PDF [201p.] at: http://www.hertie-school.org/binaries/addon/1056_publicspaces.pdf

“……A public space is an institutional setting where communications take place on matters that concern all members of a community.

These discourses allow for the perception of identities, the understanding of difference and conflict, the probing of legitimacy, and the formation of political will. A public space is defined by its being freely and fearlessly accessible to everyone.

We would like to look at the physical and institutional spaces in which processes such as arguing, bargaining, deliberation, persuasion, and the tapping of ‘moral resource’ are taking place. Can we point to the emergence of new public spaces (e.g. in the arts and the interactive electronic media)? How do they relate to the decay and deformation of old ones (e.g. the spread of ‘gated communities’ and isolated parallel societies)? To what extent do the associations and organisations of ‘civil society’ provide arenas in which common political problems are defined, be it within or beyond the borders of national societies?...”

Table of Contents

Conference Programme The Decline and Rise of Public Spaces

Claus Offe- Opening Statement: Arenas of Social Conflict and Political Discourse: Growth or Decline?
Harmut Häußermann - Spatial Exclusion and the Policies for Access
Donatella della Porta -Social Movements as Public Spaces
Bernd Scherer - Counterpoints: The Role of Art in the Public Space
Lea Ypi - Public Spaces and the Death of Art: Was Hegel Right?
Marc Morjé Howard - Varieties of Citizenship in the European Union
Christian Joppke - ‘Civic Integration’ to Beat the Parallel Society?
Antanus Mockus - Policy Innovation and the Culture of Citizenship: Tapping the Moral Resources of a Metropolitan Population
Maarten Hajer and Wytske Versteeg - The Limits to Deliberative Governance

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[EQ] Action on Health Disparities in the United States

Action on Health Disparities in the United States

Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Michael G. Marmot, FRCP; Ruth Bell, PhD

International Institute for Society and Health and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England. Dr Marmot was chair of the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 2005-2008.
Dr Bell is a senior research fellow at University College London and was a member of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health Secretariat

Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA.. Vol. 301 No. 11, March 18, 2009

Available online at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/301/11/1169?etoc#REF-JCO90020-1

“……..Here are 2 truisms. Rich countries have better health than poor countries, and medical care improves health. Consider, then, the case of the United States, which is among the richest countries in the world and spends more than any other country on medical care, US $6350 per person in 2005.1 Does the United States then have the best health?

Not quite. Life expectancy from birth to age 65 years is one useful measure of premature mortality: the United States ranks 36th in the world for men and 42nd for women.2 If not by greater national income or more spending on medical care, how should the task of improving health in the United States be approached?
Pay attention to the social determinants of health. ….”

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[EQ] Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health

Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health A global review of the literature

Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society

WHO Collaborating Centre in Women’s Health

School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

World Health Organization 2009

Available online as PDF file [181p.] at:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563567_eng.pdf

“………This review is a contribution towards raising awareness on an emerging issue of major importance to public health. Its purpose is to provide information on the often neglected interlinks between these two areas so that public health professionals, planners, policy makers, and programme managers may engage in dialogue to consider policies and interventions that address the multiple dimensions of reproductive health in an integrated way.

“……..The review comprises the most recent data from both high- and low-income countries on the ways in which women’s mental health intersects with their reproductive health. The framework for analysis employed here is informed by two interconnected concepts: gender and human rights, especially reproductive rights….”

Content

Chapter 1 Overview of key issues 1

The global burden of reproductive ill-health

Reproductive rights

Gender, rights and reproductive mental health

Chapter 2 Pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period

Chapter 3 Psychosocial aspects of fertility regulation

Chapter 4 Spontaneous pregnancy loss

Chapter 5 Menopause

Chapter 6 Gynaecological conditions

Chapter 7 Women’s mental health in the context of HIV/AIDS

Chapter 8 Infertility and assisted reproduction

Chapter 9 Female genital mutilation

Chapter 10 Conclusions

Annex WHO survey questionnaire on the mental health aspects of reproductive health

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