[EQ] Stillbirths: Launched in London, New York, Hobart, Geneva, New Delhi, Florence, and Cape Town on April 14, 2011

Stillbirths:
Launched in London, New York, Hobart, Geneva, New Delhi, Florence, and Cape Town on April 14, 2011

The Lancet

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“……Around 2.6 million stillbirths (the death of a baby at 28 weeks’ gestation or more) occur each year. Although 98% of these deaths take place in low-income and middle-income countries, stillbirths also continue to affect wealthier nations, with around 1 in every 300 babies stillborn in high-income countries.

 

The Series highlights the rates and causes of stillbirth globally, explores cost-effective interventions to prevent stillbirths (as well as maternal and neonatal deaths), and sets key actions to halve stillbirth rates by 2020.

Also included are Comments from professional organisations and parent groups, the latter demonstrating the unique tragedy for families of the birth of a baby bearing no signs of life. …”

Series Comments

Bringing stillbirths out of the shadows

Zoë Mullan, Richard Horton Full Text | PDF

Plausible estimates of stillbirth rates

Neff Walker  Full Text | PDF

The challenges of reducing risk factors for stillbirths

Sven Cnattingius, Olof Stephansson  Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: breaking the silence of a hidden grief

Janet Scott  Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: the professional organisations’ perspective

Gamal I Serour, Sergio A Cabral, Bridget Lynch  Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: missing from the family and from family health

Gary L Darmstadt  Full Text | PDF

Addressing the complexity of disparities in stillbirths

Catherine Y Spong, Uma M Reddy, Marian Willinger  Full Text | PDF

Counting stillbirths: women’s health and reproductive rights

Maureen Kelley  Full Text | PDF

Series Articles

National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2009 with trends since 1995: a systematic analysis

Simon Cousens, Hannah Blencowe, Cynthia Stanton, Doris Chou, Saifuddin Ahmed, Laura Steinhardt, Andreea A Creanga,
 Özge Tunçalp, Zohra Patel Balsara, Shivam Gupta, Lale Say, Joy E Lawn  Summary | Full Text | PDF

Major risk factors for stillbirth in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Vicki Flenady, Laura Koopmans, Philippa Middleton, J Frederik Frøen, Gordon C Smith, Kristen Gibbons, Michael Coory,
Adrienne Gordon, David Ellwood, Harold David McIntyre, Ruth Fretts, Majid Ezzati  Summary | Full Text | PDF

Series Papers

Stillbirths: why they matter

J Frederik Frøen, Joanne Cacciatore, Elizabeth M McClure, Oluwafemi Kuti, Abdul Hakeem Jokhio, Monir Islam, Jeremy Shiffman

Summary | Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: Where? When? Why? How to make the data count?

Joy E Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Robert Pattinson, Simon Cousens, Rajesh Kumar, Ibinabo Ibiebele, Jason Gardosi, Louise T Day, Cynthia Stanton

Summary | Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: what difference can we make and at what cost?

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Joy E Lawn, Arjumand Rizvi, Ingrid K Friberg, Eva Weissman, Eckhart Buchmann, Robert L Goldenberg

Summary | Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: how can health systems deliver for mothers and babies?

Robert Pattinson, Kate Kerber, Eckhart Buchmann, Ingrid K Friberg, Maria Belizan, Sonia Lansky, Eva Weissman, Matthews Mathai, Igor Rudan, Neff Walker, Joy E Lawn

Summary | Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: the way forward in high-income countries

Vicki Flenady, Philippa Middleton, Gordon C Smith, Wes Duke, Jan Jaap Erwich, T Yee Khong, Jim Neilson, Majid Ezzati, Laura Koopmans, David Ellwood, Ruth Fretts, J Frederik Frøen

Summary | Full Text | PDF

Stillbirths: the vision for 2020

Robert L Goldenberg, Elizabeth M McClure, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, José M Belizán, Uma M Reddy, Craig E Rubens, Hillary Mabeya, Vicki Flenady, Gary L Darmstadt

Summary | Full Text | PDF

 

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[EQ] Health Systems Governance in Europe: The Role of EU Law and Policy

Health Systems Governance in Europe:
The Role of EU Law and Policy

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Cambridge University Press 2010

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

“…..There is a fundamental contradiction at the core of health policy in the European Union (EU) that makes it difficult to draw a line between EU and Member State responsibilities. This raises a number of difficult questions for policy makers and practitioners as they struggle to interpret both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ laws at EU and Member State level and to reconcile tensions between economic and social imperatives in health care.

The book addresses these complex questions by combining analysis of the underlying issues with carefully chosen case studies that illustrate how broader principles are played out in practice. Each chapter addresses a topical area in which there is considerable debate and potential uncertainty.

The book thus offers a comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy, including regulatory, legal, ‘new governance’ and policy-making dynamics, and the application of the legal framework in these areas….”

Edited by

Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy and Director of LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Govin Permanand is Programme Manager of the Health Evidence Network at the World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for Europe, Copenhagen, and Research Fellow, LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Rita Baeten is Senior Policy Analyst at the OSE, European Social Observatory, Brussels.
Tamara Hervey is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield.

            Prelims

            Ch01 Health systems governance in Europe: the role of European Union law and policy

            Ch02 Health care and the EU: the law and policy patchwork

            Ch03 EU regulatory agencies and health protection

            Ch04 The hard politics of soft law: the case of health

            Ch05 Public health policies

            Ch06 Fundamental rights and health care

            Ch07 EU competition law and public services

            Ch08 EU competition law and health policy

            Ch09 Public procurement and state aid in national health care systems

            Ch10 Private health insurance and the internal market

            Ch11 Free movement of services in the EU and health care

            Ch12 Enabling patient mobility in the EU: between free movement and coordination

            Ch13 The EU legal framework on e-health

            Ch14 EU law and health professionals

            Ch15 The EU pharmaceuticals market: parameters and pathways

            Bibliography

            Index

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[EQ] Integration of Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity

Integration of Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity

Nina B. Wallerstein, Irene H. Yen, and S. Leonard Syme
Nina B. Wallerstein is with the Master of Public Health Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Irene H. Yen is with the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. S. Leonard Syme is with the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

American Journal of Public Health, 10.2105/AJPH.2008.140988

May 2011, Vol 101, No. 5

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“…….The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 arenas of public health: social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions. Yet only modest success has been achieved in eliminating health inequities.

 

 We advocate dialogue and reciprocal learning between researchers with these 2 perspectives to enhance emerging transdisciplinary language, support new approaches to identifying research questions, and apply integrated theories and methods. We recommend ways to promote transdisciplinary training, practice, and research through creative academic opportunities as well as new funding and structural mechanisms….”

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