Friday, March 18, 2011

[EQ] Shared innovations in measurement and evaluation

Shared innovations in measurement and evaluation


Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA, USA
The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9770, Pages 969 - 970, 19 March 2011

Website: http://bit.ly/fuUlbW

 

“…..Now more than ever, those engaged in measuring health and evaluating impact to improve health need to come together to share knowledge.

The current economic environment, in conjunction with increasing demands for accountability, requires intensified efforts to innovate and borrow from other disciplines to ensure that methods and tools take advantage of the latest science and provide valid, reliable, and comparable measurements for wide implementation.

What has been missing from the global health calendar is a cross-cutting forum that unites the myriad disciplines that have something to contribute to an enhanced collective capacity for global health measurement and evaluation.

In sponsoring the conference—Global Health Metrics & Evaluation: Controversies, Innovation, Accountability—we hope to build the field and provide a space to share new ideas about the growing body of evidence about what works in global health….”

 

Our call for Abstracts in the autumn of 2010 yielded 433 submissions covering a range of topics (panel), from nearly every country in the world. After a rigorous peer-review process organised by The Lancet, 22 Abstracts were selected for oral presentation and 101 Abstracts for poster sessions. The results can be found in the booklet.

The Abstracts are an interesting sample of worldwide work on health metrics and evaluation. The topics with the largest number of Abstracts submitted included non-communicable diseases, malaria, priority setting, and health inequalities, as well as a category that was hard to classify into any one area. The preponderance of work in these areas might have represented the interests of those who read the call for Abstracts, or might accurately reflect the growing field of health metrics and evaluation.


Range of topics for the submitted abstracts:

•New quantitative tools for priority setting

•Emerging methods

•Latest approaches to measuring maternal mortality

•Integrated surveillance systems

•Next generation of metrics for health-system performance

•Controversies in burden of malaria

•Trends in health inequalities

•Transitions in non-communicable diseases in rich and poor countries

•Responsible data-sharing and strengthening country capacity for analysis

Supplementary webappendix

This webappendix formed part of the original submission and has been peer reviewed.

Supplement to: GHME Conference Organizing Committee. Shared innovations in measurement and evaluation.
Lancet 2011; published online March 14. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60169-4.
http://bit.ly/fI4sxc PDF[132p.]

 

GHME Conference Organizing Committee*

* : Zulfiqar Bhutta, Division of Women & Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Richard Horton, The Lancet, London, UK; Alan Lopez, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia; Fatima Marinho de Souza, Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO Washington, DC, USA; Anne Mills and Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Christopher Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA, USA; Osman Sankoh, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; Kenji Shibuya, Department of Global Health Policy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and Debrework Zewdie, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland.

 





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[EQ] Exploring which context matters in the study of health inequities and their mitigation

Exploring which context matters in the study of health inequities and their mitigation

Nancy Edwards1,2 & Erica Di Ruggiero2

1Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa,

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and 2Institute of Population and Public Health, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, March 2011; 39(Suppl 6): 43–49

 

Available online at:  http://bit.ly/ie56zN

 

Aim:

This commentary argues that contextual influences on health inequities need to be more thoroughly interrogated in future studies of population health interventions.


Methods: Case examples were chosen to illustrate several aspects of context: its historical, global, and dynamic nature; its multidimensional character; and its macro- and micro-level influences. These criteria were selected based on findings from an extensive literature review undertaken for the Public Health Agency of Canada and from two invitational symposia on multiple intervention programmes, one with a focus on equity, the other with a focus on context.

 

Findings:
Contextual influences are pervasive yet specific, and diffuse yet structurally embedded. Historical contexts that have produced inequities have contemporary influences. The global forces of context cross jurisdictional boundaries. A complex set of social actors intersect with socio-political structures to dynamically co-create contextual influences.

 

Conclusions:
These contextual influences raise critical challenges for the field of population health intervention research. These challenges must be addressed if we are going to succeed in the calls for action to reduce health inequities. Implications for future public health research and research-funding agencies must be carefully considered.

 

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[EQ] IDRC Doctorate Research Awards Competition

The IDRC Doctorate Research Awards Competition is now open!

International Development Research Centre IDRC - Canada

The deadline for submitting applications is April 1, 2011

IDRC offers these awards twice a year in April and November to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing doctoral studies at a Canadian university.

These awards are intended for field research in one or more developing countries. Candidates must conduct their research in areas corresponding to IDRC's research priorities.

IDRC supports research on the following themes:

• Agriculture and environment

• Health and health systems

• Information and communication technologies for development

• Innovation, Policy, and Science

• Social and economic policy

 

Web page: http://bit.ly/dFckTI

 

Contact :Rosalie Vezina 613-236-6163 (ext.2607)  rvezina@idrc.ca

 

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