Tuesday, August 4, 2009

[EQ] Health Reform: The Fateful Moment

 

Health Reform: The Fateful Moment


Book review:

Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis by Senator Tom Daschle, with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew


By:

Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science at Yale.
The author of The Politics of Medicare (2000), his most recent book is Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy. (August 2009)

Jonathan Oberlander, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and an associate professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Political Life of Medicare. (August 2009)


New York Review of Books: Volume 56, Number 13 • August 13, 2009

 

Website: http://bit.ly/13gxYw

 

“……Whatever health reform legislation emerges this fall (if any), we can plausibly predict that it will substantially reduce the number of uninsured Americans.
That in itself would be a major achievement, though it will surely fall short of universal coverage.
Moreover, unless it provides system-wide limits on health care spending, any legislation that emerges from Congress will not reliably control the costs of medical care. These two issues are closely linked. Failure to control costs would jeopardize the very gains in health insurance coverage that reform promises…………..”

 

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[EQ] International Course on Epidemiological Methods - IEA Capacity Building conference for the global South: deadline Nov 1, 2009

Second IEA Capacity Building conference for the global South

Epidemiologic course, sponsored by the International Epidemiologic Association (IEA), will be addressing two sets of inequities: research relationships & capacities of the global North & South, and also epidemiological concepts & methods relevant to analyzing health inequities, as stated below
"with the aim of producing knowledge and evidence that can be used to reduce these inequities and improve population health" --

International Course on Epidemiological Methods

International Epidemiologic Association (IEA)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  April 3-14, 2010

 Website: http://www.ieaWeb.org

URL: http://publichealth.massey.ac.nz/courses/IEA%202010.htm
 
The deadline for applications is: NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is an intermediate level residential course. The participants should already have some experience of epidemiology and have already completed some form of introductory course. It will include lectures, computer-based analyses (using the Stata package), exercises, discussion sessions, and practical experience in the design of a research proposal. The course will be of interest to epidemiologists, public health professionals, statisticians, and clinicians.

Participants must attend the entire course from 8 a.m. Saturday3rd to noon Wednesday 14th April.

The International Course on Epidemiological Methods course

Directors are:

Dr Ali Al-Zahrani (Saudi Arabia)
Professor Neil Pearce (New Zealand)
Professor Rodolfo Saracci (France)
Dr Abdulaziz Bin Saeed (Saudi Arabia)
 

The additional course faculty are:
Professor Matthias Egger (Switzerland)
Professor George Davey Smith (UK)
Professor Ahmed Mandil (Saudi Arabia)
Professor Lorenzo Richiardi (Italy)
Professor Amin Kashmeery (Saudi Arabia).

Programme includes (may be subject to change):

-- Study design options (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, intervention studies, clinical trials)
-- Study design issues (confounding, selection bias, information bias, effect modification)
-- Data analysis (stratified analysis, multivariable analysis, survival analysis)
-- Advanced methods (Bayesian methods, DAGs)
-- Writing and publishing epidemiological research
-- Research ethics

 Information and application forms http://www.ieaWeb.org
Saudi Arabia and GCC countries
Alia Gabr/Mahwish Khan
King Saud University - Riyadh, Saudi ArĂ¡bia
E-mail: aliagabr@Kfshrc.edu.sa

Other countries
Naomi Brewer/Hilary Nuttall
Centre for Public Health Research -Massey University Wellington Campus
PO Box 756 Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Fax: 00-64-4-380-0600 E-mail: h.g.nuttall@massey.ac.nz  

 

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[EQ] Collaborating Centers of Excellence Set to Combat Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries

Collaborating Centers of Excellence Set to Combat Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries

UnitedHealth and the NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence - 2009

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)  Global Health Initiative Website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/globalhealth/.

Information on the UnitedHealth Group can be found at www.unitedhealthgroup.com.

“…..A worldwide network of research and training centers will build institutional and community capacity to prevent and control chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular, lung diseases, and diabetes, announced the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

The NHLBI is awarding 10 contracts totaling more than $34 million in this effort.  The NHLBI joins with Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group’s existing Chronic Disease Initiative (UnitedHealth CDI) in establishing the “UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence” (COEs) network. 

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*       Bangladesh

*       China

*       Guatemala

*       India (Bangalore)

*       India (New Delhi)

*       Kenya

*       Peru

*       South Africa

*       Tunisia

*       U.S.-Mexico Border

The NHLBI and the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative are working together to establish a network of 11 Collaborating Centers of Excellence in low- and middle-income countries to build sustainable programs to combat chronic cardiovascular and lung diseases. Research and outreach activities are being conducted in 21 developing countries. In addition, each developing country is paired with at least one partner academic institution in a developed country to enhance research and training opportunities. To learn more, read the June 10 announcement.

Reducing Chronic Diseases Must Be a Global Priority

Chronic diseases are universal. They affect the young and the elderly, the rich and the poor, and every ethnic group. They impact entire communities and entire nations. And, they cost millions of dollars in lost productivity and care.

Populations in developing countries are disproportionately affected by chronic diseases, with more individuals developing chronic diseases at younger ages than those in higher income countries. Chronic diseases account for around 60 percent of all deaths globally, and 80 percent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.


The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9680, Pages 2004 - 2006, 13 June 2009

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61074-6

Combating chronic disease in developing countries

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61074-6/fulltext

Elizabeth G Nabel a, Simon Stevens b, Richard Smith b

Globalisation has affected every aspect of modern life, and health and disease are no different.
The global health landscape is rapidly shifting away from one dominated by infectious diseases to one characterised by various chronic conditions.

 

 

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