Health Equity: 11/15/10

Monday, November 15, 2010

[EQ] Call for proposals: systematic reviews to strengthen the international community capacity for evidence-based policy making

Call for proposals

The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) are announcing a joint call for proposals for

Systematic reviews to strengthen the international community’s capacity for evidence-based policy making

Applications should be submitted online by 9am GMT on Monday, November 29, 2010.

Website: http://bit.ly/cSQak4

Systematic reviews examine the existing evidence on a particular intervention or program in low and middle income countries, drawing also on evidence from developed countries when pertinent.

The studies should be carried out according to recognized international standards and guidelines. All studies will be subject to an external review process and for this purpose teams will be encouraged to register for peer review with a relevant systematic review coordinating body. All applications have to be submitted using 3ie’s online application system.

Proposals will be reviewed by three reviewers, including one external systematic review specialist and one external subject specialist. Successful proposal teams will be notified by Friday, January 28, 2011.

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[EQ] Casebook of Primary Healthcare Innovations

Casebook of Primary Healthcare Innovations

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2010

Available online PDF [56p.] at: http://bit.ly/bzuuCN

“….After almost three decades in the doldrums, primary healthcare renewal has accelerated dramatically in Canada since 2000. However, progress has been uneven across the country, with some jurisdictions striding boldly forward while others have been more tentative in undertaking reform. Although innovation in primary healthcare is occurring in every province and territory, what sets the past decade apart is the implementation and scaling up of innovations in the organization, funding and delivery of primary healthcare to the system level in several provinces. This casebook documents many of the innovations being implemented across Canada.…..”

Table of Contents

Introduction

ACCES Enhancing GP Access

Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan

FIRST NATIONS Tui’kn Initiative

Central Interior Native Health Society

First Nation Midwifery Program

PRIVATE-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP Jocoeur

COMPLEX NEDS Network of integrated services for seniors

Défi Santé

Enhanced Assisted Living for Dementia

MENTAL HEALTH Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Health

Mental Health Shared Care

Mental Health Integration Program

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Practice Support Program

Alberta AIM

Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership

RURAL AND REMOTE Provision of birthing services in northern regions

Community Paramedicine

Remote video consultation

UNATTACHED PATIENTS Access for unattached patients

Unattached Patient Assessment and Referral Project

Health Care Connect

HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS Saskatoon Health Bus

Social Pediatric Centres

Inner City Health Associates

PATIENT SELF-MANAGEMENT ANCHOR

Primary Care & Chronic Disease Management Self-Management Program

Heart Failure Network

TRANSITIONS FROM HOSPITAL TO HOME Virtual Ward, St. Michael’s Hospital/Women’s College Hospital/

University Health Network/Toronto Central CCAC

Virtual Ward, South East Toronto Family Health Team

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS (A) Family Health Teams

Community Health Centres

Nurse Practitioner-led Clinics

PATIENT ROSTERING Ontario patient rostering

Performance and Diligence Indicator Program

Quebec patient rostering

PAYMENT REFORM Ontario payment reform

Payment reform in the Northwest Territories

Physician Integrated Network

PRIMARY HEALTHCARE

GOVERNANCE MODELS

Divisions of Family Practice

Regional Department of General Medicine

THRIVING MODELS THAT HAVEN’T

SPREAD: WHY NOT?

REACH Community Health Centre

Group Health Centre

North End Community Health Centre

Saskatoon Community Clinic

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS (B) Montmagny Family Medicine Group

Primary Care Networks
St. Joseph’s community Health Centre





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[EQ] Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health

Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health

PLoS Med 7(11): e1000367. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000367
Published November 9, 2010

Available online at: http://bit.ly/aMKOOy

This is the introductory article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation.

Globally, around 2.4 million deaths (4.2% of all deaths) [1] could be prevented annually if everyone practised appropriate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water. These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and subsequent malnutrition, and from other diseases attributable to malnutrition.

How is an opportunity to prevent so many deaths (and 6.6% of the global burden of disease in terms of disability adjusted life years or DALYs [1]) failing to attract the attention of the international public health community?

In this introductory paper to the PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, we develop the idea that these basic needs are the forgotten foundations of health. ..”

A Massive Disease Burden Is Associated with Deficient Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water Supply

While rarely discussed alongside the ‘‘big three’’ attention-seekers of the international public health community—HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria—one disease alone kills more young children each year than all three combined. It is diarrhoea [2], and the key to its control is hygiene, sanitation, and water (HSW)…..”

Second article:

Water Supply and Health at: http://bit.ly/93LEZR

Paul R. Hunter1*, Alan M. MacDonald2, Richard C. Carter3
1 School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom,
2 British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
3 WaterAid, London, United Kingdom

“….As one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, Paul Hunter and colleagues argue that much more effort is needed to improve access to safe and sustainable water supplies….”





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[EQ] Evaluation of Healthcare Services: Asking the Right Questions to Develop New Policy and Program-Relevant Knowledge for Decision-Making

Evaluation of Healthcare Services:
Asking the Right Questions to Develop New Policy and Program-Relevant Knowledge for Decision-Making

Marcus J. Hollander, Jo Ann Miller and Helena Kadlec
Healthcare Quarterly, 13(4) 2010: 40-47

Website: http://bit.ly/bAqiDI

“…..This article presents a framework for thinking about the key questions that need to be answered to develop new policy and program-relevant knowledge that can be used to make more informed decisions. It is a primer for administrators, policy makers and others about how to identify the knowledge they need to make decisions regarding new or existing programs.

The article covers three related dimensions in evaluation:
- types of evaluations,
- key domains of inquiry and
- generic research questions.
While the questions are generic, they can be readily adapted to any new and/or existing healthcare program evaluation.
Examples of how the generic questions can be adapted to primary healthcare clinics and home care are presented.

Program evaluation is an extensive topic and it is beyond the scope of this article to outline all relevant aspects. Rather, this article presents a framework for thinking about the key questions which need to be answered to develop new policy and program-relevant knowledge that can be used to make more informed decisions.

Thus, this article is essentially a primer for administrators, policy makers and others about how to identify the knowledge they need to make decisions about new or existing programs. It covers three related dimensions in evaluation: types of evaluations, key domains of inquiry and generic research questions.
The questions are fairly generic but, as will be shown later, can be readily adapted to the evaluation of any new or existing healthcare program…..”





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