Health Equity: 05/19/10

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

[EQ] Conference: Advancing Quality through Partnerships of Health Professions Education and Health Services Institutions

International Conference 2010
Advancing Quality through Partnerships of Health Professions Education and Health Services Institutions

Kathmandu, Nepal - November 13 - 17, 2010

Conference co-host: B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
Network: Towards Unity for Health

Website: http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference/default.asp

The conference is mainly based on interactive exchange, experiences and reflection in order to link education to research and action.

“….The aim of the Conference is to foster partnership of institutions for health professions education and health services, and to advance quality of the education and the services. Participating institutions and members seek partners based on compatibility of their own institutional objectives and discuss on establishing strong partnerships that will interface education and services so that quality on their outputs can be achieved.

The Conference offers platforms to institutions and individuals where they share their strength-based approaches and innovations with each other through various workshops that invite participants to reflect on their stories through appreciative inquiry and encourage them to bring appropriate changes that would ultimately have a positive impact on health professions education and health services….”

Prof. Jan De Maeseneer, M.D., Ph.D. - Secretary General of the Network: Towards Unity for Health.

Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care - Ghent University

University Hospital - 1K3 Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care

De Pintelaan 185 B-9000 Gent Belgium - Fax: +32 332 49 67

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[EQ] Focusing on Obesity Through a Health Equity Lens

Focusing on Obesity Through a Health Equity Lens
– Second edition

Yoline Kuipers - EuroHealthNet

March 2010 (PDF, 7MB) - Available online at: http://bit.ly/cF4PAJ

This report has been compiled by EuroHealthNet with the aim of producing an accessible source of ideas and inspiration for practitioners and policy makers about counteracting obesity and improving health equity.

The report demonstrates the strong link between health inequalities and rising rates of obesity, and how existing measures to tackle the condition might be able to take this into account. The document contains descriptions of nearly 100 projects running in 28 countries, from the international level to local community initiatives.

(As the file is around 7MB we recommend that you right-click and choose „Save Link As“ on PC, or control-click and choose „Save Link As“ on Mac).

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Obesity and Health Inequalities

1.1 Obesity in Europe: The current situation and its long-term vision

1.2 Health inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health

1.3 Health inequalities in relation to obesity

2. Projects at European Level

2.1 (School) Children in Europe

2.2 Overall European population

3. Projects at National Level

4. Projects at Local level

4.1 Nutrition Projects.

4.2 Physical Activity Projects.

4.3 Combined Projects

5. Projects at International Level

6. Overview of Responses

7. Conclusions and Discussion

8. Index

9. References





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[EQ] Benefit Incidence Analysis -Are Government Health Expenditures More Pro-rich Than We Think?

Benefit Incidence Analysis
Are Government Health Expenditures More Pro-rich Than We Think?

Adam Wagstaff

Policy Research Working Paper 5234 - The World Bank - Development Research Group

Human Development and Public Services Team- March 2010

PDF Available online [25p.] at: http://bit.ly/cYuT2q

“…..It is generally accepted that government health expenditures should disproportionately benefit the poor. And yet in most developing countries the opposite is the case. This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient. It argues that a more plausible assumption is that larger out-of-pocket payments for a given unit of utilization reflect more (or more costly) services being delivered.

The paper compares -- theoretically and empirically -- the standard constant-cost assumption with two alternatives, namely that the cost of care in a specific episode of utilization is (a) proportional to or (b) linearly related to the amount of money paid out-of-pocket by the patient.

An interesting special case of the linear relationship is where subsidies are focused on a basic unit of care and additional costs are met dollar-for-dollar by additional fees. The paper shows that if fees are more pro-rich than utilization, government spending will be least pro-rich under the constant-cost assumption and most pro-rich under the proportionality assumption.

The linear assumption results in a concentration index for subsidies that lies between these two extremes. These results are borne out in an analysis of the incidence of government health spending in Vietnam (a country where fees are more pro-rich than utilization); indeed, under the constant-cost assumption, subsidies are pro-poor while they are pro-rich under the proportionality assumption. The paper also considers the biases created by not allowing for insurance reimbursements….”





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