Health Equity: 10/14/10

Thursday, October 14, 2010

[EQ] Inequality around the World

Inequality around the World

Branko Milanovic

IMF Institute, March2010

Website: http://bit.ly/ckX4Uu

Review empirical movements in international and global inequality 1950-2010

•Focus on global interpersonal inequality in the last twenty years

•Explain methodological problems and choices we face when using HSs to measure global inequality

•Address the impact of new PPPs

•Give a historical overview

•Review political philosophy stance toward global redistribution and global inequality

Content:

Presentation
Global Inequality
Ethics and Global Redistribution
Openness and Inequality
Global Income Distribution
Inequality and Politics
Inequality and Transition
Ginis, Polarization Measures
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"

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[EQ] WHO report on neglected tropical diseases

Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases

World Health Organization, October 14, 2010

Available online PDF [184p.] at: http://bit.ly/b6LcUX

“…….Neglected tropical diseases blight the lives of a billion people worldwide and threaten the health of millions more. These close companions of poverty weaken impoverished populations, frustrate the achievement of health in the Millennium Development Goals and impede global public health outcomes.

Wider recognition of the public health significance of neglected tropical diseases and better knowledge of their epidemiology have stimulated necessary changes in public health thinking to approach and achieve control.

This report presents evidence to demonstrate that activities undertaken to prevent and control neglected tropical diseases are producing results – and that achievements are being recognized.

By 2008, preventive chemotherapy had reached more than 670 million people in 75 countries. ….”

Ref: ISBN 978 92 4 1564090
Dr Lorenzo Savioli (Director, WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases) and
Dr Denis Daumerie (Programme Manager, WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases)

Summary
A summary of the report both in English and French is now available.
English | French |

Read the press release on neglected tropical diseases
Read the Director-General's speech on neglected tropical diseases

Content

Foreword by the Director-General

Executive summary v

PART 1

1. Neglected tropical diseases: a paradigm shift

2. Sixty years of growing concern

3. Human and economic burden

4. Ways forward

4.1 Approaches to overcoming neglected tropical diseases

4.1.1 Preventive chemotherapy

4.1.2 Intensified case-management

4.1.3 Vector control

4.1.4 Safe water, sanitation and hygiene

4.1.5 Veterinary public health: zoonotic aspects of neglected tropical diseases

4.2 Current policies and strategies

PART 2

5. Neglected tropical diseases in the world today

5.1 Dengue

5.2 Rabies

5.3 Trachoma

5.4 Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection)

5.5 Endemic treponematoses

5.6 Leprosy (Hansen disease)

5.7 Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)

5.8 Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

5.9 Leishmaniasis

5.10 Cysticercosis

5.11 Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)

5.12 Echinococcosis

5.13 Foodborne trematode infections

5.14 Lymphatic filariasis

5.15 Onchocerciasis (river blindness)

5.16 Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis)

5.17 Soil-transmitted helminthiases

6. Global and regional plans for prevention and control

7. Conclusions

Annexes

Available in electronic format

WHO’s global and regional plans for prevention and control

African Region

Region of the Americas

Eastern Mediterranean Region

South-East Asia Region

Western Pacific Region





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