Health Equity: 09/21/09

Monday, September 21, 2009

[EQ] Understanding Health Inequalities

Understanding Health Inequalities

Professor Hilary Graham

Department of Health Sciences - University of York - 2009

US Publisher http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openupusa/html/0335234593.html

Chapter 1 available online PDF [25p.] at:

Part 1 Health inequalities: understanding patterns over time and place
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335234592.pdf

UK Publisher : http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335234593.html

"…..Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of /Understanding Health Inequalities/, edited by Hilary Graham, remains a welcome and timely contribution. Replete with thoughtful essays on health inequities analyzed in relation to societal structure, social position and geography . the volume provides important insights into how class, racial/ethnic, gender, and spatial health inequities are produced - and how they can be rectified.

The world economic crisis launched by the implosion of unregulated financial markets in the fall of 2008 only serves to underscore the volume's central conclusion: that government regulation and intervention, premised on a commitment to equity, is essential for tackling health inequalities. Health professionals, students, and any and all working for healthy and sustainable ways of living will benefit from this collection………." Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Hilary Graham and her contributors outline the enduring link between people’s socioeconomic circumstances and their health and tackle questions at the forefront of research and policy on health inequalities. These include:

* How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live

* How health is simultaneously shaped by inequalities of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic position

* How policies can impact on health inequalities

Contributors:

Karl Atkin, Mel Bartley, G. David Batty, David Blane, Bo Burstrom, Danny Dorling, Anne Ellaway, Hilary Graham, Barbara Hanratty, Kate Hunt, Saffron Karlsen, Catherine Law, Sally Macintyre, James Nazroo, Naomi Rudoe, Bethan Thomas, Rachel Thomson, Margaret Whitehead/
ISBN: 9780335234592
Division: Open University Press Pub Date: AUG-09

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

Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE)

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

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

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.

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 .

What is the current state of the U.S. health system?
http://www.randcompare.org/current/

• Spending

• Consumer Financial Risk

• Waste

• Reliability

• Patient Experience

• Health

• Coverage

• Capacity

• Operational Feasibility

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