Thursday, April 21, 2011

[EQ] Violence in the City

Violence in the City

Understanding and Supporting

Community Responses to Urban Violence

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development /The World Bank 2011

Available online PDF [347p.] at: http://bit.ly/eXvEk6

“……For millions of people around the world, violence, or the fear of violence, is a daily reality. Much of this violence concentrates in urban centers1 in the developing world. These cities are home to half of the world’s population and are expected to absorb almost all new population growth over the next 25 years

 

In many cases, the scale of urban violence can eclipse that of open warfare. Some of the world’s highest homicide rates occur in countries that have not undergone wars but have violence epidemics in their urban areas. Concern over these experiences has made urban violence a central preoccupation of policymakers, planners, and development practitioners

 

This study emerged from a growing recognition that urban communities themselves are an integral part of understanding the causes and impacts of urban violence and for generating sustainable violence prevention initiatives. Participatory appraisals in Latin America and the Caribbean have produced important insights into the manifestations of violence in different contexts.

 

Nevertheless, much still is to be learned in understanding the myriad strategies that communities employ to manage high levels of violence. Coping mechanisms may range broadly from individual strategies, such as changing one’s work or study routine to avoid victimization, to collective strategies that involve formal institutions such as community- based policing, to reliance on traditional or alternative dispute fora. Some coping mechanisms—such as forming extralegal security groups—can be negative and undermine the bases for long-term violence prevention.

 

This study aims to understand how urban residents cope with violence, or the threat of it, in their everyday lives, to inform the design of policies and programs for violence prevention…..”

Content:

Executive Summary.

1. Introduction and Context.

2. Violence and Cities.

3. Community Capacities for Violence Prevention

4. Social Interventions for Urban Violence Prevention.

5. Community Perspectives on Urban Violence

6. Conclusions and Recommendations .


Appendixes
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Appendix A: City Population and Homicide Rates for 50 Cities.

Appendix B: Summaries of Effective Multisectoral Programs

Appendix C: Conflict, Violence, and Community Resilience in Dili, Timor-Leste.

Appendix D: Crime and Violence and the Urban Poor:The Case of Fortaleza, Brazil.

Appendix E: Crime and Violence in Poor Urban Communities in Johannesburg

Appendix F: Crime and Violence in Poor Urban Communities in Nairobi.

Appendix G: Crime, Violence, and Communities Resilience in Cité Soleil, Haiti

References

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[EQ] Spanish - Protecci=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3n_Social_en_Salud_en_Am=E9r?= ica Latina y el Caribe

Protección Social en Salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Investigación y políticas

Amparo Hernández Bello, Carmen Rico de Sotelo EDITORAS

Roberto Bazzani, IDRC Eduardo Levcovitz, OPS/OMS
Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo de Canadá (IDRC) y la
Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS/OMS)


Texto completo online en: http://bit.ly/hwMIqB

“…..El punto de partida fue el reconocimiento de la necesidad de replantear la protección social para enfrentar los bajos resultados en acceso universal, atención equitativa, salud pública y participación social de los sistemas de salud, consecuencia del enfoque predominantemente económico de las reformas emprendidas desde la década de los años noventa y de su énfasis en aspectos de eficiencia en detrimento de la equidad y la calidad.

Los resultados de la experiencia de esta iniciativa refuerzan las evidencias sobre las limitaciones de la orientación principal de las reformas para superar las inequidades y la importancia de replantear la forma de intervención en lo social y, en forma más específica, de desarrollar sistemas de protección social, universales y ciudadanos, que permitan por fin hacer de la garantía del derecho a la salud una realidad. Sobre estos pilares se construye este libro titulado Protección social en salud en América Latina y el Caribe. Investigación y políticas….”

ÍNDICE

Presentación

Roberto Bazzani y Eduardo Levcovitz

Introducción. Nuevos horizontes para la producción de conocimiento y las políticas en protección social en salud

Roberto Bazzani, Eduardo Levcovitz, Amparo Hernández Bello, Oscar Rodríguez Salazar, Carmen Rico de Sotelo

SECCIÓN I. DEBATES TEÓRICOS SOBRE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL Y PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL EN SALUD

Programas de investigación y políticas públicas en los Sistemas de Protección Social

Oscar Rodríguez Salazar

Pasado, presente y futuro del Estado Social latinoamericano: coyunturas críticas, decisiones críticas

Fernando Filgueira

Reflexiones sobre el financiamiento de la protección social en salud en América Latina y su impacto sobre la equidad

Oscar Cetrángolo

SECCIÓN II. CASOS SOBRE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL EN SALUD EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE

Etnicidad como determinante de la inequidad en salud materno-infantil en el Perú

Martín Valdivia

Gobernanza y gobernabilidad del Seguro Público de Salud de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

Ernesto Báscolo, Natalia Yavich

Protección social en salud y desigualdad territorial: el contexto de la Amazonia legal brasileña

Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana, Cristiani Vieira Machado, Luiza Sterman Heimann, Luciana Dias de Lima, Fabíola Lana Iozzi, Mariana Vercesi de Albuquerque

Retos para una protección social integral: vulnerabilidad y exclusión de la población desplazada en Colombia

Amparo Hernández Bello, Román Vega Romero, Marta Lucía Gutiérrez Bonilla

Factores relacionados con el no aseguramiento en salud de los trabajadores cesantes en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, 2007

Álvaro Cardona Saldarriaga, Emmanuel Nieto López, Luz Mery Mejía Ortega

Evaluación de la introducción de tarifas al usuario por servicios preventivos en Jamaica: impacto sobre el nivel de salud y las estrategias adaptativas de los usuarios

Wilma Bailey, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Aldrie Henry Lee, Jasper Barnett, Stanley Lalta, Dillon Alleyne

Vínculos entre la investigación y la toma de decisiones: análisis de las relaciones en el marco de cinco proyectos de investigación

Ernesto Báscolo, Natalia Yavich, Néstor Ponce, Wilma Bailey, Ana Luiza d’ÁvilaViana, Álvaro Cardona Saldarriaga

 



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[EQ] Why Social Determinants?

Why Social Determinants?

Neal Halfon, Kandyce Larson and Shirley Russ
Healthcare Quarterly, 14(Sp) 2010: 8-20

Available at: http://bit.ly/dZG69I

“…..There is overwhelming evidence that social factors have profound influences on health. Children are particularly sensitive to social determinants, especially in the early years. Life course models view health as a developmental process, the product of multiple gene and environment interactions. Adverse early social exposures become programmed into biological systems, setting off chains of risk that can result in chronic illness in mid-life and beyond. Positive health-promoting influences can set in motion a more virtuous and health-affirming cycle, leading to more optimal health trajectories.

Mounting an effective response to social determinants will involve both direct social policy initiatives designed to eliminate poverty and inequality, and indirect approaches focused on disrupting pathways between social risks and poor health outcomes. To be effective, these indirect strategies will require nothing short of a transformation of existing child health systems. Parents and professionals must work together from the ground up, raising public awareness about social determinants of health and implementing cross-sector place-based initiatives designed to promote positive health in childhood.

The social determinants of health are composed of the conditions in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, together with the systems that are put in place to deal with illness (World Health Organization [WHO] 2008). The distribution of money, power and resources within society, influenced at least in part by policy choices, economics and politics, shape these conditions at local, regional and national levels. …………”

Healthcare Quarterly - Vol. 14 Special Issue | Child Health in Canada
http://bit.ly/i17HeR

The Editor's Letter Mary Jo Haddad
Theories And Consequences
Why Social Determinants? Neal Halfon, Kandyce Larson and Shirley Russ
The Link between Social Inequality and Child Health Outcomes  Avram Denburg and Denis Daneman
 Social Geography of Developmental Health in the Early Years Clyde Hertzman

 Social Determinants in Context

Aboriginal Child Health and the Social Determinants: Why Are These Children So Disadvantaged?
Brian Postl, Catherine Cook and Michael Moffatt
Immigrant Health and the Children and Youth of Canada: Are We Doing Enough?  Tony Barozzino

Policy Innovations

Family as a Social Determinant of Health: Implications for Governments and Institutions to Promote the Health and Well-Being of Families
Ted McNeill
Turning the Social Determinants of Health to Our Advantage: Policy Fundamentals for a Better Approach to Children's Health
Adalsteinn D. Brown, Wendy Katherine, Katy Allen, Uyen Quach, Elizabeth Chiu and Lauren Bialystok

Looking Ahead

The Challenge of Child and Youth Mental Health  Mary Jo Haddad and Michael Kirby

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[EQ] Confrerence: Public Health and Welfare

Public Health and Welfare

Conference Welfare Development and Health

Copenhagen, Denmark - 10 - 12 November 2011

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA), The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and The Danish Society of Public Health (DSOP)

Brochure: http://bit.ly/dEeWkB

“……Public health contributes to welfare by means of health promotion, health protection, disease prevention and health services. Such interventions represent investments in a better health and better life for populations – a contribution to welfare. At the same time, they contribute to a healthy labour force.

 

The concept of welfare is usually associated with satisfying basic human needs, such as having food, shelter, education, work, economic income etc. Often health is included in the concept of welfare. Nations having the economic ability and economic will to safeguard these needs for broad groups in society are often called welfare states.

 

The reverse relationship between welfare and health is also a well documented historic fact. In particular wealth and economic well-being is one of the determinants of health, but this holds for other aspects of welfare as well – material as well as immaterial.
During Copenhagen 2011 we intend, through keynote lectures, to give examples of the mutual relationship between Public Health and Welfare – Welfare Development and Health.

 

We are looking forward to the following invited Keynote speakers who will focus on these themes in connection with the main focus of “Public Health and Welfare”.

 

·         European Welfare Systems including Public Health and Health Care
 – overview and comparative research, (Gösta Esping Andersen, Spain).

·         Reducing inequality in health in Europe – progress in policies?
(Michael Marmot, UK – John Dalli, EU – Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO).

·         World economic crises, investments and health.
Are our welfare systems resistant towards deteriorating health when economic crises take place? (Erio Ziglio, WHO).

·         Focus on the elderly population in Europe.
The contribution of preventive and curative health services to health, quality of life and welfare of the elderly population
(Tom Kirkwood, UK).

·         Regulating health by food – the role of the food industry, comparable to the tobacco industry
(Kelly D Brownell, USA).

·         Using individually linked population-based registers in research focusing

·         On the interrelationship of health and welfare – Scandinavian approaches and experiences
(Jørn Olsen, Denmark – Camilla Stoltenberg, Norway – Olle Lundberg, Sweden – Elina Hemminki, Finland).

·         The Danish “flexicurity model” for labour market policy and social policy
(Mogens Lykketoft, Denmark).

·         Global health as seen from a European perspective
– the welfare orientation of public health education in Europe (ASPHER)

 

Please note the deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1 May, 2011.
http://www.eupha.org/site/upcoming_conference.php

 

 

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