Health Equity: 07/20/10

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

[EQ] Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDRTB) A Root Cause Analysis

Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDRTB):

A Root Cause Analysis

Jennifer Prah Ruger is Associate Professor at Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Law (Adjunct)
and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE, VOLUME III, NO. 2 (SPRING 2010) http://www.ghgj.org

Available online PDF [20p.] at: http://bit.ly/coUpIr

“…..The threat of global infectious agents has the potential to cripple national and global economies, as the outbreaks of SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1, and XDR-TB have demonstrated.

This article offers a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of one public health case study – the Speaker case of XDR-TB – pinpointing the underlying causal relationships associated with this global health incident and proposing recommendations for preventing its recurrence. An RCA approach identifies corrective actions directed at the root causes of the problem and advances them as necessary to eliminate global contagion with its major international public health risks. To my knowledge, this is the first root cause analysis of a global health problem.

The reform this article proposes would be to add a standardized procedure akin to the informed consent process in clinical ethics, but within a shared health governance framework. This approach, addressing infectious agents at their origins or source, is potentially a more effective strategy to reduce uncertainty and avert global health threats….”

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[EQ] Contributions for Repositioning a Regional Strategy for Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities

Contributions for Repositioning a Regional Strategy for Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities (HM&C):

Results of a Pan-American Survey

Sergio Meresman, the Latin American Centre of Humane Economy, Montevideo, Uruguay,
Marilyn Rice, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Washington, DC, USA
Carlos Vizzotti, Romina Frassia, Pablo Vizzotti, Universidad ISALUD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marco Akerman, ABC Regional Medical School (FMABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil.

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

doi:10.1007/s11524-010-9457-1-

Available online PDF [15p.] at: http://bit.ly/dur0JX

“…..This article presents the results of the 1st Regional Survey of Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities (HM&C) carried out in 2008 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and ISALUD University of Argentina.

It discusses the responses obtained from 12 countries in the Americas Region.
Key informants in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay were selected and encouraged to answer the survey, while informants from Canada and Honduras answered voluntarily and were included in this analysis.

The discussion of the results of the Survey provides insight into the current status of HM&C in the Region and suggests key topics for repositioning the Regional strategy relative to:

(1) the conceptual identity and tools for HM&C;

(2) challenging areas in the implementation process (scale, legal framework, and development of capacities);

(3) related strategies and participatory processes such as the ways citizen empowerment in governance is supported;

(4) the need to monitor and assess the impact of the HM&C strategy on the health and quality of life of the populations involved; and

(5) the need for developing a strategic research and training agenda.

The analysis and discussion of these results aims to provide useful input for repositioning the strategy in the Region and contributing to the emergence of a second generation of concepts and tools capable of meeting the developing priorities and needs currently faced by the Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities HM&C strategy…..”

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[EQ] Call for papers: special issue Journal of Ambulatory Care Management on community health workers in the US and internationally

Dear colleagues:

See below a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management on community health workers in the US and internationally. Please distribute this announcement to anyone who might be interested in submitting a paper.
We would very much like to a get a good representation of different country experiences.

James Macinko, PhD

Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy

Director, Global MPH Program

Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: Community health workers in primary health care: evidence, challenges, and future directions

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management is a peer-reviewed journal that provides timely, applied information on the most important developments and issues in ambulatory care management.

General guidelines for submission to the journal are available at http://www.ambulatorycaremanagement.com/pt/re/jacm/authorinfo.htm

The deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is February 1, 2011

Community health workers have been described as “members of communities who work either for pay or as volunteers in association with the local health care system…[who] usually share ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status and life experiences with the community members they serve” (HRSA, 2008). Throughout the world, community health workers have been employed as members of healthcare delivery teams, navigators of the health system, screening and education providers, outreach workers, community organizers, and in other roles. This special issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management will focus on documenting evidence on costs, benefits, outcomes, and challenges associated with community health workers in primary health care and examine policy initiatives to support CHW services.

Authors describing original empirical research assessing the effectiveness of community health workers in different primary care settings, including analyses of costs, management, sustainability, effects on the health labor market, health outcomes, and policy strategies are invited to submit their work. We encourage submissions from both high and low income countries and communities and are particularly interested in impact evaluations, demonstrations of best practices, and policy analyses, but will consider other themes. All manuscripts should be submitted in English.

For articles discussing community health worker interventions, authors should describe program elements in their full articles, including: the type and amount of community health worker education; community health worker programmatic roles played; program financing mechanisms; and main outcome measures. As possible, reference to these elements should be briefly reviewed in submitted abstracts.

SUBMISSION DATES AND DEADLINES:
Authors should email a structured abstract (up to 350 words and including introduction, methods, results, conclusions) no later than October 1, 2010. The editors will then be in contact with authors upon review of the abstract.
Full manuscripts will be solicited from a selection of authors who have submitted abstracts.

The deadline for submitting completed manuscripts is February 1, 2011.

For more information or to answer any questions, authors should feel free to contact guest editors, James Macinko james.macinko@nyu.edu and
E. Lee Rosenthal elrosenthal@utep.edu, or journal editor, Norbert Goldfield nigoldfield@mmm.com

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