Health Equity: 01/21/11

Friday, January 21, 2011

[EQ] PAHO/WHO Lecture online: Chronic Disease: the real epidemic - Wednesday 26 January 2011

PAHO/WHO Guest Speaker Lecture on Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Prof. Robert A. Spasoff, Emeritus Professor, Ottawa University, Epidemiology & Community Medicine

Title: Chronic Disease: the real epidemic

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am — Room C - WDC Time

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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Language: English

To participate in person:

Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO

525 23rd. St. N.W. Washington DC 20037 Room C

To participate online via Elluminate:

To login to the Elluminate session, use the link below and type your name on the sign in page:
www.paho.org/Virtual/HSD-HA

Agenda

09-00 – 09:10 Welcome Remarks.

Dr. Marcos Antonio Espinal. Manager, Health Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control, PAHO/WHO

09:10 – 09:55 Lecture by Dr. Robert Spasoff; Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine; Ottawa University

Chronic Disease: the real epidemic

Main Points:

• Chronic disease is big, and will become much bigger

• Approaches to controlling chronic disease: emphasis on prevention

• We should be careful about what we prevent!

• What else should we do?

09:55 – 10:30 Discussion; Moderator

Dr. James Hospedales, Project Coordinator, Prevention & Control of Chronic Diseases, PAHO

10:30 Adjourn

Contact: email - Oscar Mujica mujicaos@paho.org

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[EQ] OECD Labour Force Statistics 2010

Labour Force Statistics 2010

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Publication Date :11 Jan 2011 - Pages :480

ISBN :9789264097599 () ; 9789264097575 (print) - DOI :10.1787/lfs-2010-en-fr

Available online at: http://bit.ly/e7vEk5

“…..This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment.

It also contains participation and unemployment rates by gender and detailed age groups as well as comparative tables for the main components of the labour force.
The time series presented in the publication cover 20 years for most countries. It also provides information on the sources and definitions used…..”

Summary tables

– Population

– Population by sex

– Population under 15 years

– Population from 15 to 64 years

– Population from 15 to 64 years by sex

– Population 65 years and over

– Total labour force

– Civilian labour force

– Civilian labour force by sex

– Total employment

– Civilian employment

– Civilian employment, females

– Civilian employment, agriculture

– Self-employment

– Self-employment rates

– Part-time employment

– Unemployment

– Duration of unemployment

Table for countries

– Australia

– Austria

– Belgium

– Canada

– Czech Republic

– Denmark

– Finland

– France

– Germany

– Greece

– Hungary

– Iceland

– Ireland

– Italy

– Japan

– Korea

– Luxeourg

– Mexico

– Netherlands

– New Zealand

– Norway

– Poland

– Portugal

– Slovak Republic

– Spain

– Sweden

– Switzerland

– Turkey

– United Kingdom

– United States

– Definitions

– Notes by Country





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[EQ] Report and Web seminar: Canadian Health Care Matters - How Do Canadians Rate the Health Care System?

How Do Canadians Rate the Health Care System?

Results from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.

Canadian Health Care Matters, Bulletin 4. Toronto: Health Council of Canada

Available online PDF [38p.] at: http://bit.ly/flcjVm

Web seminar:
February 14, 2011

Website to register: http://bit.ly/e9zcQT - Monday, February 14, 2011 from 10am - 11:30am (Toronto-EST)

To learn about Health System Performance in Canada: What Can We Learn from Top Performing Countries?.

Recent analysis of the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey on citizens’ perceptions of the health care system shows that Canada has much to learn from other countries when it comes to access, affordability, timeliness and coordination of primary health care.

John G. Abbott, CEO of the Health Council of Canada, will host a panel of researchers from three of the survey’s top performing countries.

- From the Netherlands is Dr. Jako Burgers, Senior Researcher, IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.

- From the United Kingdom is Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Services Research & Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

- From Switzerland is Dr. Monika Diebold, Head of the Swiss Health Observatory in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Each panelist will provide a brief overview of the structure of the primary health care system in their country, and their thoughts about their citizens’ general perceptions of care and overall ratings of the health system.
As representatives of top performing countries, the panelists will comment on best practices, system characteristics, policy drivers or other factors they feel may have contributed to their countries’ high rankings in the survey.

To read the report in advance of the webinar. Here is the link PDF [38p.] at:http://bit.ly/flcjVm





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[EQ] WHO: Webinar: Global Health Histories Seminars: Infant growth and nutrition - Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Global Health Histories Seminars: Infant growth and nutrition

World Health Organization WHO and The University of York

Join us for a Webinar on February 2

Space is limited.
Registration at: http://bit.ly/gxPfhC

Title:		*Global Health Histories Seminars: Infant growth and nutrition*

Date:		Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Time:		12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CET

Rates and patterns of growth in weight of infants vary geographically, related to how the infants are fed and the prevalence of disease, and have changed over the last 100 years.

In this seminar, Lawrence Weaver, Professor of Public Health at the University of Glasgow, argues that the WHO infant growth standard should not alone be regarded as an ideal growth trajectory for all babies.

Professor Weaver, a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, is an expert in the history of nutrition, growth and development in early life.

His co-speaker in this seminar is Doctor Mercedes de Onis, Dept of Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer





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[EQ] The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview

The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care:
A Systematic Overview

…..report the findings of their systematic overview that assessed the impact of eHealth solutions on the quality and safety of health care…

Ashly D. Black1, Josip Car1, Claudia Pagliari2, Chantelle Anandan2, Kathrin Cresswell2, Tomislav Bokun1, Brian McKinstry2, Rob Procter3, Azeem Majeed4, Aziz Sheikh2*

1 eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom,
2 eHealth Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
3 National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom,
4 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

PLoS Med 8(1): e1000387. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387 - January 18,2011

Available online at: http://bit.ly/fwF8bq

“…..There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative eHealth technologies are underway globally, often at very considerable cost. In order to assess the impact of eHealth solutions on the quality and safety of health care, and to inform policy decisions on eHealth deployments, we undertook a systematic review of systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness and consequences of various eHealth technologies on the quality and safety of care.

Methods and Findings

We developed novel search strategies, conceptual maps of health care quality, safety, and eHealth interventions, and then systematically identified, scrutinised, and synthesised the systematic review literature. Major biomedical databases were searched to identify systematic reviews published between 1997 and 2010.

Related theoretical, methodological, and technical material was also reviewed. We identified 53 systematic reviews that focused on assessing the impact of eHealth interventions on the quality and/or safety of health care and 55 supplementary systematic reviews providing relevant supportive information.

This systematic review literature was found to be generally of substandard quality with regards to methodology, reporting, and utility. We thematically categorised eHealth technologies into three main areas:
(1) storing, managing, and transmission of data;
(2) clinical decision support; and
(3) facilitating care from a distance.
We found that despite support from policymakers, there was relatively little empirical evidence to substantiate many of the claims made in relation to these technologies. Whether the success of those relatively few solutions identified to improve quality and safety would continue if these were deployed beyond the contexts in which they were originally developed, has yet to be established. Importantly, best practice guidelines in effective development and deployment strategies are lacking.

Conclusions

There is a large gap between the postulated and empirically demonstrated benefits of eHealth technologies. In addition, there is a lack of robust research on the risks of implementing these technologies and their cost-effectiveness has yet to be demonstrated, despite being frequently promoted by policymakers and “techno-enthusiasts” as if this was a given. In the light of the paucity of evidence in relation to improvements in patient outcomes, as well as the lack of evidence on their cost-effectiveness, it is vital that future eHealth technologies are evaluated against a comprehensive set of measures, ideally throughout all stages of the technology's life cycle. Such evaluation should be characterised by careful attention to socio-technical factors to maximise the likelihood of successful implementation and adoption….”





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