Health Equity: 02/16/10

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

[EQ] EQ list Symposium February 24th, 2010 - Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing on Equity and Health

Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing on Equity and Health

PAHO/WHO Symposium – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm February 24th, 2010
10^th Anniversary of Equity and Health listserv

This symposium on health determinants and inequalities will be focused on the analysis of thematic trends and conceptual frameworks developed in the last 10 years and their policy implications. It also will address global methodological issues of measuring health inequalities and evaluating policy and program impact.

A draft of the agenda by topic is below. The names of some speakers and discussants TBC the final agenda will be sent before the meeting. The entire meeting will be web cast in order to reach a wide international audience of health equity researchers and advocates.

The format will be a short presentation on the subject of each panel 10-15 min max – Three/four discussants 5 to 10 min max. - Q&A 15 min max.from

Participants in person:

PAHO Pan American Health Organization Regional Office of the World Health Organization
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037, United States of America
Room A

Virtual participants via web:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.A4FA308B5F1FA6CD60DB62C0137303

To participate in person or virtually please confirm you availability before February 22^nd

This event is being organized by WHO, PAHO/WHO, and Kellogg Fellows

Resources collection:

We are also updating the collection of resources on Equity, Health and Human Development, please post the best resources you have online – Links below or send by email to ruglucia@paho.org

Link to post your best resources on Health and/or Equity, Social Disparities and/or Social Determinants of Health
http://devserver.paho.org/equity/addentry.php

To browse posted resources: http://devserver.paho.org/equity/listEquity.php

Equity and Health Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing February 24th, 2010 PAHO/WHO Pan American Health Organization 525 23^rd St. NW Washington DC 20037 *Room A*
Time		Welcome remarks Dr Mirta Roses, Director PAHO/WHO
9:00 - 9:15 am
		Panel		Speakers	Discussants
9:15-10:15am		Following up the Commission on Social Determinants of Health: How Do We Move to Action?		Dr Rüdiger Krech Director, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, WHO Geneva, Switzerland Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health, University College, London Galvao, Dr. Luiz Augusto PAHO/WHO Sustainable Environmental Health SDE Area Manager *Chair:* Dr. Kumanan Rasanathan, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland		Dr. Jeanette Vega, Undersecretary for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Chile Dr. Bernardo Kliksberg, UNDP advisor; UNDP-Spain Fund Director Dr Jose Romero Teruel, Professor Georgetown University Sir George Alleyne Former PAHO/Director
10:15 –10:30 am		Thematic Networks and Dissemination of Information		Ana Lucia Ruggiero, EQ List Moderator KMC - PAHO/WHO Barbara Krimgold, Director, Kellogg Fellows and Scholars Programs, CFAH Kira Fortune, VHL- Social Determinants of Health SDE PAHO Sandra Raiher, CEDES Argentina
10:30- 10:45am coffee break

10:45 - 12:30pm	Understanding the determinants of health & implementing population health programs		Dr Paula Braveman, MD, MPH Professor of Family and Community Medicine; Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health - University of California, San Francisco Chair: Dr. Alexandra (Lexi) B. Nolen, PhD, MPH Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities; Associate Director of the PAHO/WHO Center for Training in International Health; University of Texas Medical Branch			Kenneth Olden, Dean, CUNY Institute for Health Equity, Lehman College, and Professor, Hunter College, NYC Dr.Ulises Pannisset, Director EvipNet WHO Erin Ueffing Administrator, Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health -University of Ottawa Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health Dr. Clem Bezold, Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures Dr Oscar Mujica, PAHO/WHO [5 min.]
Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 pm	An Equity of Opportunity Framework for Child Development		Dr. Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Associate Professor, Northeastern University, Bouve College of Health Sciences and Director, Institute on Urban Health Research			Dr. Manuel Peña PAHO/WHO Nutrition Center Dr. Emma Sanchez – Kellogg Health Scholar, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco Dr. Karen Ertel – Kellogg Health Scholar, Harvard School of Public Health
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Global Health & Ethics		Dr. Lawrence O. Gostin Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Professor of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University Georgetown Law Dr. Gregg Bloche Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health B.A., Columbia; J.D., M.D., Yale			Dr. Fernando Lolas, Bioethics Program Director PAHO/WHO Dr. Jennifer Prah Ruger, Professor Yale University

3:30 - 4:00 pm	Knowledge Networks		Ramesh Krishnamurthy US CDC Al Shorbaji, Najeeb Mohamed, KMC WHO			Theresa Bernardo, PAHO/WHO, KMC Agnes Soares BIREME PAHO/WHO Marcelo D’Agostino PAHO/WHO, KMC Stacey Aronson US National Library of Medicine NLM
4:00 - 4:30 pm	Immigration and Health in the Americas: Linked Destinies		Dr. Dolores Acevedo –Garcia PhD, MPA-URP Associate Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences Associate Director, Institute on Urban Health Research Northeastern University			Dr. Edna Viruell-Fuentas - Assistant Professor, Latino/Latina Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Emma Sanchez – Kellogg Health Scholar, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco Dr. Shedra Amy Snipes - NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center Dr. Rifat Latifi, MD,FACS Professor of Surgery The University of Arizona, Department of Surgery Vice Chairman, International Relations
4:30 - 5:30 pm	Health Financing		Ms. Amada Glassman, Principal Health Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank IADB/BID Dr. David Gwatkin, World Bank advisor Dr. Philip Musgrove, Health Affairs Chair: Dr. Ruben Suarez THR PAHO/WHO
5:30 pm	Closing remarks Dr Jon Andrus, Deputy Director PAHO/WHO

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[EQ] Racial discrimination and health: A systematic review of scales with a focus on their psychometric properties

Racial discrimination and health:
A systematic review of scales with a focus on their psychometric properties

Joao Luiz Bastosa, , , Roger Keller Celesteb, Eduardo Faersteinb and Aluisio J.D. Barrosa
a Post-graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Department of Social MedicinePelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

b Post-graduate Program in Public Health, Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Social Science & Medicine - Available online 1 February 2010.

To read the paper, please, follow the link below:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.020

URL: http://bit.ly/cW430p

‘……The literature addressing the use of the race variable to study causes of racial inequities in health is characterized by a dense discussion on the pitfalls in interpreting statistical associations as causal relationships.

In contrast, fewer studies have addressed the use of racial discrimination scales to estimate discrimination effects on health, and none of them provided a thorough assessment of the scales' psychometric properties. Our aim was to systematically review self-reported racial discrimination scales to describe their development processes and to provide a synthesis of their psychometric properties.

A computer-based search in PubMed, LILACS, PsycInfo, Scielo, Scopus and Web of Science was conducted without any type of restriction, using search queries containing free and controlled vocabulary. After initially identifying 3060 references, 24 scales were included in the review.

Despite the fact that discrimination stands as topic of international relevance, 23 (96%) scales were developed within the United States. Most studies (67%, N = 16) were published in the last 12 years, documenting initial attempts at scale development, with a dearth of investigations on scale refinements or cross-cultural adaptations. Psychometric properties were acceptable; sixteen of all scales presented reliability scores above 0.7, 19 out of 20 instruments confirmed at least 75% of all previously stated hypotheses regarding the constructs under consideration, and conceptual dimensional structure was supported by means of any type of factor analysis in 17 of 21 scales.

However, independent researchers, apart from the original scale developers, have rarely examined such scales. The use of racial terminology and how it may influence self-reported experiences of discrimination has not yet been thoroughly examined.

The need to consider other types of unfair treatment as concurrently important health-damaging exposures, and the idea of a universal instrument which would permit cross-cultural adaptations, should be discussed among researchers in this emerging field of inquiry…..’

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