Friday, July 30, 2010

[EQ] Strengthening Radiation Protection Worldwide - highlights, global perspective and future trends

Proceedings:

12th congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA12):


Strengthening Radiation Protection Worldwide — highlights, global perspective and future trends

Organized by the Argentine Radiation Protection Society in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization and the

Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO, hosted by the government of Argentina and held in Buenos Aires, 19–24 October 2008

International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA - Vienna, 2010

Available online PDF [350p.] at: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1460_web.pdf

The protection of people and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, while permitting the development and use of radioactive materials and radiation producing devices and technologies for the benefit of society, is a crucial international endeavour.

Radiation is present everywhere in the natural environment and there are some industrial activities that lead to increased exposure to these natural sources.

The use of radioactive material and radiation producing devices is on the rise in medical diagnostic and therapy procedures. These procedures generally benefit the patients involved, but also present risks to both the patient and medical personnel involved in the procedures.

 

Plans to increase the development of nuclear power will require strong radiation protection programmes in mining, processing, transportation, and the use and disposal of nuclear and radioactive material. Radiation protection faces additional challenges with security screening, responses to potential acts and emergencies involving the release of radioactive material, and other industrial and research activities…”

 

To address radiation protection challenges, IRPA12’s scientific programme was divided into three areas:


Epistemological basis of radiation protection, namely current knowledge of the physics and biology of radiation exposure
    and its effects, particularly in relation to its scope, experimental methods and theoretical validity;
Paradigm of radiation protection, namely universal conceptual models used to protect people from deleterious health effects due to radiation exposure;

Radiation protection in practice, namely the actual application and use of radiation protection plans and methodologies by
    practitioners and industries making use of radiation.


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[EQ] Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health: informing future research and programme implementation

Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health:
informing future research and programme implementation

 

Edited by Shawn Malarcher.

World Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 159952 8 - 2010

 

Available online PDF [166p.] at: http://bit.ly/90KM6w

 

 “…….While the last two decades have seen improvements in access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, progress in many countries has been slow and – after decades of investments – disappointing. Social activists and health analysts have highlighted the potential role that persistent inequities in health play in hindering progress towards achieving international and national development goals.

Health inequity is defined as "inequalities in health deemed to be unfair or to stem from some form of injustice. The dimensions of being avoidable or unnecessary have often been added to this concept."

 

“….A primary concern of public health programmes is the existence of disparities in access to and utilization of health services and information. Data from population-based surveys document that women from the poorest households are less likely to use preventive and curative sexual and reproductive health services and products than women from the wealthiest households including use of modern contraceptives, antenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, and seek treatment for self-reported symptoms of sexually transmitted infection…………..”

 

Contents

1. A view of sexual and reproductive health through the equity lens - Shawn Malarcher


Section 1. Within the health system

2. Promote or discourage: how providers can influence service use - Paula Tavrow

3. Financing mechanisms to improve equity in service delivery - Dominic Montagu, Maura Graff

4. Scaling up health system innovations at the community level: a case-study of the Ghana experience

John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Maya N. Vaughan-Smith, James F. Phillips

Section 2. Beyond the clinic walls

5. Sexual and reproductive health and poverty - Andrew Amos Channon, Jane Falkingham, Zoƫ Matthews

6. Migration and women’s reproductive health -Helen Smith, Xu Qian

7. The role of schools in promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in developing countries - Cynthia B. Lloyd

8. Sexual violence and coercion: implications for sexual and reproductive health - Sarah Bott
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599528_eng.pdf

 



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[EQ] Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World

Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World

Jerome Amir Singh1,2,3 , Abdallah S Daar1  and Peter A Singer1

1  McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2  Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa

3  Joint Centre for Bioethics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

BMC Public Health 2010


Available online at: http://bit.ly/97zsK6

 

“…..The Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World described herein is intended to unite stakeholders in a shared vision and common goal: reduce and eventually eliminate childhood malnutrition in the developing world through the scale-up of low cost, high quality complementary foods, using home available or locally procured ingredients wherever feasible.

 

The principles were drafted after a review of sources that have relevance to virtually all stakeholders and constituencies in the infant feeding arena. These include civil society codes of conduct, corporate social responsibility frameworks, governance frameworks, global health ethics frameworks, international health guidelines, consumer rights frameworks, and human rights instruments.

 

The proposed principles are intended to complement and supplement existing laws, trade regimes, international Codes, and international goals (see Additional file 1). In this paper, we outline our proposed shared principles for stakeholders in the complementary feeding arena…..”

Additional file 1. Existing laws, trade regimes, international codes, and international goals relevant to infant and child nutrition. This file contains the existing primary international instruments and position statements relevant to infant and child nutrition.
Format: DOC Size: 30KB Download file - This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

 

For further information, please contact Peter Singer: peter.singer@mrcglobal.org-  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/321

The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health is based at University Health Network and University of Toronto.
The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health hosts Grand Challenges Canada.



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