[EQ] Launching of the Mesoamerican Public Health Institute

Launching of the Mesoamerican Public Health Institute

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México 22 - 24 de abril del 2009

 

Website: www.imesoamericano.org

 

“…….…the Mesoamerican Public Health Institute (MPHI), was launched as a virtual network of academic and research institutes in the Mesoamerican region. Officers from academic and research institutions undersigned a Letter of Intention expressing their interest in collaborating to establish the basis for this strategic component of the Mesoamerican Public Health System.

 

The Letter of Intent was signed during the closing session of the First Mesoamerican Ministerial Summit, held in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, state of Chiapas, Mexico. Also during the Summit, health sector authorities from the Mesoamerican countries endorsed an official Declaration committing their full support to MPHI activities.

MPHI is an initiative lead and fostered by the Mexican government and the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, with its Governing Board comprising eight prominent institutions from six Mesoamerican countries thus far.

 

The MPHI network will contribute to strengthening the Mesoamerican national health systems, with a view to improving population health through the production and utilization of regional public goods. It will operate with the vision of joint collaboration for the development of regional strategies to strengthen the countries' knowledge and capacity to address public health challenges.

 

MPHI will offer the following Mesoamerican Programs immediately: Postgraduate and Continuous Public Health Education; Institutional Strengthening and Development, and Technical Support and Knowledge Management. As part of its initial focus, MPHI will pursue the following Mesoamerican Health System goals: malaria eradication, dengue control, improvement of mother-child health, elimination of malnutrition as a public health issue, and universal immunization for Mesoamerica….”

 

 

Institutions:

 

 Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública , INSP. México 

 Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud INCIENSA.  Costa Rica 

 Universidad de Costa Rica 

 Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de El Salvador 

 Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Salud (CIES).  Nicaragua 

 Instituto Conmemorativo GORGAS de Estudios de la Salud (GORGAS).  Panamá 

 Facultad de Medicina  de la Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala 

 Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá (INCAP). Guatemala 

 ECOSUR (Colegio de ), Chiapas, México

 

 Programs:

1.   Central American Training program and Development - Include courses and graduates of updating and training in epidemiology, health systems and services focused to the regional action.  
• Graduate in global health
• Regional Course of management and leadership of policies and health programs
• Summer Course:   Health policies on scientific bases

 

2.   Training program and Updating of Professionals in Public Health, in order to strengthen the human capital approached to development regional in health within the framework of the SMSP.   Doctoral programs, master's program and graduates will be considered with an approach in research and regional problem-solving.   A network of tutors and educators will be supported with a fellowship program and will be established gradually with the integrating institutions the IMSP who permit to go decentralizing the teaching.  

 

3.   Technical Support and for Management of the Knowledge, based on shared information systems, tools for knowledge management and  communications .   .

 

 

Documents:

Primera Cumbre Ministerial Mesoamericana De Enfermedades Transmitidas Por Vector

 

Press release: Lanzamiento del Instituto Mesoamericano de Salud Pública 47 KB Declaración de Chiapas por la Salud de Mesoamérica. 47.5 KB   Carta de Intención para la Constitución del Instituto Mesoamericano de Salud Pública 925 KB   Propuesta  de Acciones de  Promoción de la Salud para las Enfermedades del Rezago 76.2 KB   Relatoría Final, de la Mesa del Instituto Mesoamericano de Salud Pública. 231.9 KB   Resultados y Acuerdos de la Mesa  de Vectores. 1.6 MB   Sistema Mesoamericano de Salud Pública 1.8 MB

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] URL CORRECTION Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries

Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries

 

Editors: Christer Hogstedt, Henrik Moberg, Bernt Lundgren and Mona Backhans

Swedish National Institute of Public Health 2008

 

NEW URL Available online PDF [358p.] at: http://www.fhi.se/PageFiles/4171/R200821_Health_for_all_komp0809.pdf

 

“…..scientific experts from eight different countries to write about the public health policies in their respective countries with a special emphasis on the equity aspect. The countries chosen represented different parts of Europe:
- from the northern (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden)
- via the western (England and the Netherlands)
- to the southern parts (Italy and Spain).

 

 A comprehensive template for the country chapters was presented to the authors which not only covered questions concerning whether their countries were taking measures on the classic public health problems – such as smoking, alcohol or physical activity – but also if the policies had considered the wider, social determinants of health and experiences of the potential implementation processes. …”

 

“….National frameworks to tackle inequalities in health. The way health inequalities are explained is closely related to the way they are dealt with, i.e. to what extent governments try to make people behave differently or attempt to change their living conditions. Crombie et al. (6) conclude that there are four groups of factors which the countries refer to in their policies, or  background documents, as the main causes of inequalities:

1. general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions (e.g. employment, income and social welfare programmes)

2. living and working conditions (e.g. individual’s position in society, occupation, income and education)

3. social and community networks available to the individual (e.g. feelings of insecurity and social exclusion)
4. lifestyle choices (smoking, lack of physical activity and poor diet…”

 

 

 

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[EQ] Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries

Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries

 

Editors: Christer Hogstedt, Henrik Moberg, Bernt Lundgren and Mona Backhans

Swedish National Institute of Public Health 2008

 

Available online PDF [358p.] at: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200821_Health_for_all0808komp.pdf

 

“…..scientific experts from eight different countries to write about the public health policies in their respective countries with a special emphasis on the equity aspect. The countries chosen represented different parts of Europe:
- from the northern (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden)
- via the western (England and the Netherlands)
- to the southern parts (Italy and Spain).

 

 A comprehensive template for the country chapters was presented to the authors which not only covered questions concerning whether their countries were taking measures on the classic public health problems – such as smoking, alcohol or physical activity – but also if the policies had considered the wider, social determinants of health and experiences of the potential implementation processes. …”

 

“….National frameworks to tackle inequalities in health. The way health inequalities are explained is closely related to the way they are dealt with, i.e. to what extent governments try to make people behave differently or attempt to change their living conditions. Crombie et al. (6) conclude that there are four groups of factors which the countries refer to in their policies, or  background documents, as the main causes of inequalities:

1. general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions (e.g. employment, income and social welfare programmes)

2. living and working conditions (e.g. individual’s position in society, occupation, income and education)

3. social and community networks available to the individual (e.g. feelings of insecurity and social exclusion)
4. lifestyle choices (smoking, lack of physical activity and poor diet…”

 

 

 

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