Health Equity: 09/14/10

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

[EQ] Student Voices: Advocating for Global Health through Evidence, Insight and Action

Student Voices: Advocating for Global Health through Evidence, Insight and Action

Edited by Steven J. Hoffman, Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences,

McMaster University Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

McMaster Health Forum, August 2010
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - ISBN 978-1-894088-21-3

Available online [74p.] at: http://bit.ly/bvAjeU

“……Global health efforts must be informed by the best available evidence and most creative insights. Today’s students have an important role to play in this enterprise for both their innovative ideas and future leadership of the global health sphere.

This edited volume offers a student perspective on five pressing global health issues, namely internal displacement, disaster relief, water systems, gender-based violence and maternal health.
Each chapter examines the global political context in which decisions on the particular health topic of focus are made, explores prevailing trends in the issue area, and considers advocacy strategies that concerned stakeholders can adopt to catalyze action.
The authors are all undergraduate students at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Through this publication, it is hoped that the student voice can help shape some of today’s leading debates in global health as they prepare themselves to confront tomorrow’s greatest challenges…..”

Content
Chapter 1: Displacement and Health
Chapter 2: Disaster Relief Coordination
Chapter 3: Economics of the World Water Crisis
Chapter 4: Eliminating Gender-based Violence
Chapter 5: Advocating for Maternal Health

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[EQ] Norwegian WHO strategy - Member of the Executive Board 2010-2013

Norway’s WHO strategy

Norway has a seat on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) from May 2010 to May 2013
September 13, 2010

In connection with this, the Norwegian Government has developed a WHO strategy.

Available online PDF [39p.] at: http://bit.ly/b4coJw

Press Release: http://bit.ly/9TTd8y

Norway’s efforts in WHO are to be based on important principles such as respect for human rights, democracy and gender equality. The fight against poverty is a key factor in this respect. The strategy sets out overall objectives and priorities for Norway’s engagement and provides the basis for a clear, coherent Norwegian WHO policy.

The overall objectives of Norway’s efforts will be to:

- Fight poverty by helping to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

- Support and promote the right to health services

- Help to reduce the great social inequalities in the world

- Help to reduce the burden of disease

- Promote women’s rights and gender equality

The strategy establishes five priorities:

- Improve WHO’s budget and management

- Promote global health research as the basis for knowledge-based policy

- Strengthen health systems, including access to health personnel

- Intensify efforts to combat non-communicable diseases

- Intensify efforts to combat communicable diseases and improve health security

“We know that poor health is just as much a cause of poverty as a consequence of poverty, and we are aware of the links between access to health services, good health and prosperity. We can achieve equity and good health for all, but in order to do so we will have to focus on improving health systems and primary health care services,” said Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim.

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Vision and purpose

3 Overall objectives for Norway’s engagement

3.1 Fight poverty by helping to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

3.2 Support and promote the right to health services

3.3 Help to reduce the great social inequalities in the world

3.4 Help to reduce the burden of disease

3.5 Promote women’s rights and gender equality

4 Overview of WHO’s structure, governance and funding

4.1 WHO’s mandate and structure

4.2 Governance

4.3 Funding

5 Challenges

5.1 WHO as a specialised agency of the UN

5.2 The role of WHO in the global health architecture

5.3 Challenges connected with WHO’s organisational structure

5.4 Funding challenges

5.5 WHO as a political versus a technical arena

5.6 WHO as an international development actor – the organisation’s ability to deliver at country level

6 Priorities

6.1 Improving WHO’s budget and management

6.2 Promoting global health research as the basis for knowledge-based policy

6.3 Strengthening health systems, including access to health personnel

6.4 Intensifying efforts to combat non-communicable diseases

6.5 Intensifying WHO’s efforts to combat communicable diseases and improve health security

7 Working methods

7.1 National working methods

7.2 Partner countries and forms of cooperation

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