Health Equity: 04/26/10

Monday, April 26, 2010

[EQ] Call for research proposals from civil society organizations: Advancing health equity through research and practice

Call for research proposals from civil society organizations (CSOs):
Advancing health equity through research and practice

- Identifying what works to reduce health inequities

The WHO Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research together with the Global Forum for Health Research and People's Health Movement just opened a call for research proposals from civil society organizations (CSOs) on the theme:
‘‘Advancing health equity through research and practice – identifying what works to reduce health inequities”.

The call is available at: http://bit.ly/bvtCN3

Deadline for receipt of entries is 23 May 2010

Civil Society Organizations CSOs interested in evaluating the interventions they implemented and their impacts both on health outcomes and on health equity are invited to submit research proposals.

The interventions (including policies, programmes, etc) to be evaluated need to address social, economic and political determinants of health.
Submission of proposals dealing with interventions and research projects already in progress is strongly encouraged.

The application should be emailed as a Word or PDF document to sylvie.olifson@globalforumhealth.org.

In the header of the email, please put "CSOs advancing health equity”. Receipt of applications will be confirmed by e-mail.
The deadline for submission is 23 May 2010.

WHO Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research

Global Forum for Health Research

People's Health Movement

Sylvie Olifson Health Economist
Research and Programmes Unit - Global Forum for Health Research www.globalforumhealth.org

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[EQ] Growing Out of Crisis - The Crisis and the World's Poorest

Growing Out of Crisis

A global financial and economic convulsion of the magnitude we have just experienced should offer valuable lessons.

Development Outreach is a flagship magazine in the field of global knowledge for development which reflects the learning programs of the World Bank and presents a range of viewpoints by renowned authors and specialists worldwide.

This issue of Development Outreach, “Growing Out of Crisis,” offers a multifaceted picture that sheds new light on the impact of the crisis from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, and discusses changes at national and international levels that would better protect us from the next crisis.

The main questions it addresses are:
- what were the prevailing economic conditions when the crisis struck;
- what was the impact during the first year of the global crisis;
- what policies have the developing countries taken in response; and
- what effects will those policies have on output, employment, poverty, and public finances.

Content:

About This Issue: Letter from the Editor Christopher Neal

After the Crisis Robert B. Zoellick - In 2009, we are living through an upheaval that is changing our world. What will be the implications for the future?

GUEST EDITORIAL: Growing Out of Crisis

Raj Nallari - Is the financial crisis over and could it happen again? We asked experts with diverse perspectives to address the key questions that concern the developing countries.

The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Financial Crises: North and South

Carmen M. Reinhart

The Ds: Sharp economic downturns follow banking crises; with government revenues falling, fiscal deficits worsen; deficits lead to debt; as debts pile up rating downgrades follow. For the most fortunate countries it does not end in default.

Shock Producers and Shock Absorbers in the Crisis

Hans-Werner Sinn

It is not surprising that the U.S. has been by far the world’s largest shock producer in this crisis. The big shock absorbers on the other hand were Japan, Russia and Germany, whose exports shrank more than their imports.

The Crisis and the World’s Poorest

Martin Ravallion

The crisis in the developed world has spilled over into the lives of the world’s poorest, who are particularly vulnerable even to the smallest income shocks.

Growth is Disappearing and May Not Recover in the Medium Run

Vladimir Gligorov

Countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe have been hit hard by the global crisis. There is a need to rethink the growth model because a return to the status quo ante does not seem realistic.

South Africa’s Policy May Offset the Financial Downturn

Brian Kahn

South Africa’s policy response to the crisis should to some extent help contain the contraction. Nevertheless, the recovery is likely to be slow and hesitant.

Small States Face Big Challenges

K. Dwight Venner

Which conclusions can be drawn from the experience of small states, such as the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), to prepare and mitigate the impact of financial and economic crises?

Policy Responses to the Global Economic Crisis

Justin Yifu Lin

While we are observing some “green shoots,” it is too soon to speak of a recovery. We can, however, identify some key forces that are likely to shape any future growth path.

Coming out of Recession: The role of business in alleviating poverty

V. Kasturi Rangan and Djordjija Petkoski

The financial crisis creates unique opportunities for companies to reassess their strategies and identify innovative solutions, including creative partnerships that meet the needs of the poor.

Trade Openness Is Now More Important than Ever

Anne O. Krueger

Protectionism constitutes a double threat. It can make recovery from the recession slower and reduce the growth potential of the international economy once recovery has taken hold.

The Imperative for Improved Global Economic Coordination

Joseph E. Stiglitz

While global coordination is absolutely essential, success in achieving it may prove difficult because economic globalization has outpaced political globalization. If we are to succeed, we will have to manage coordination better than we have in the past.

Lenders of Last Resort and Global Liquidity: Rethinking the system

Maurice Obstfeld

One important lesson of the crisis is the need to take a systemic view of measures aimed at financial stability. Measures that enhance the stability of a single institution could be inimical to the stability of the financial system as a whole.

The Dollar Dilemma

Barry Eichengreen

Notwithstanding concerns that the dollar’s prospects as a reserve currency have been dimmed by the crisis, there has been no actual diminution of the dollar’s international role. The dollar will remain the principal form of international reserves for the foreseeable future.

Government Actions and Interventions: More harm than good?

John B. Taylor

There is empirical evidence that government actions and interventions prolonged and worsened the financial crisis, because they were based on faulty diagnosis of the problem and did not follow clear predictable principles.





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[EQ] Course: Inequalities in Health and Health Care

Inequalities in Health and Health Care

June 7 to 11, 2010
University of Geneva
The Foundation Swiss School of Public Healthplus

Course homepage: http://www.ssphplus.ch/spip.php?page=ssph_show_cours_details&lang=en&id_course=40

Prof. Eddy van Doorslaer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Prof. Owen O’Donnell (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki & EUR)

The course is intended for PhD students and other researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of inequality and inequity in health and health care. It consists of five days of lectures and computing laboratory sessions on a number of topics related to the measurement and explanation of inequalities in health and health care.

Apart from providing a general introduction to the range of approaches available to researchers, it also provides practical guidance on various issues of computation. Illustrative examples draw on analyses conducted of OECD and developing countries. Students are assessed on their completion of a practical exercise of data analysis.

Objectives: The aims of the laboratory are:

- To review approaches to the measurement of inequality and inequity employed in health economics and other fields
- To provide detailed guidance on computational procedures using Stata and the World Bank’s ADePT package
- To provide hands-on experience with computation-based exercises

Registration: Online until 22 May 2010 email: phdcourses.hep@unil.ch

Course text:

O. O’Donnell, E. van Doorslaer, A. Wagstaff and M. Lindelow (2008) Analysing Health Equity using Household Survey Data, Washington DC, World Bank. www.worldbank.org/analyzinghealthequity





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Monday, April 26, 2010

The application should be emailed as a Word or PDF document to sylvie.olifson@globalforumhealth.org.

In the header of the email, please put "CSOs advancing health equity”. Receipt of applications will be confirmed by e-mail. The deadline for submission is 23 May 2010.

About This Issue: Letter from the Editor Christopher Neal

In the header of the email, please put "CSOs advancing health equity”. Receipt of applications will be confirmed by e-mail.
The deadline for submission is 23 May 2010.