Health Equity: 05/06/11

Friday, May 6, 2011

[EQ] Call for Papers: World Alliance for Risk Factor Surveillance - Role of Surveillance in the Promotion of Health

The 7th World Alliance for Risk Factor Surveillance (WARFS) Global Conference

- Role of Surveillance in the Promotion of Health

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 16-19 October 2011

WARFS is the Global Working Group on Surveillance of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

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It supports the development of behavioural risk factor surveillance (BRFS) as a tool for evidence-based public health, acknowledging the importance of this information source to inform, monitor and evaluate disease prevention and health promotion policies, services and interventions.

WARFS aims to
(1) integrate surveillance as a tool into the mainstream of health promotion work,
(2) finalise the definition and conceptual framework of behavioural risk factor surveillance BRFS
(3) serve as a reference for researchers, practitioners, and countries that are developing behavioural risk factor surveillance BRFS, and
(4) share findings, results and experiences

Submission of abstracts of research, policy-based and practice-based papers that support risk factor surveillance for evidence-based public health, demonstrating the importance of this information source to inform, monitor and evaluate disease prevention and health promotion policies, services and interventions.

All abstracts must be submitted electronically on or before 25 May, 2011 by completing the online submission form:
URL: http://warfs.carrfscanada.org/

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[EQ] Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1 - Using law, policy and research to improve the public's health

Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1

Using law, policy, and research to improve the public’s health

Journal of law, medicine & ethics - Spring 2011

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

“…..Pandemics fray social norms and test legal rules among countries. The global response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic involved the marshalling and sharing of resources and information, the testing and application of new legal infrastructures, and the identification of deficiencies in these tools.

It applied new technologies in areas such as vaccine production, information sharing, and epidemiological tracking. It spurred the future development of even newer and more advanced technologies, which may have future legal implications.

Finally, it reiterated what has become an important consideration in pandemic planning and response: that a truly effective response requires complex governance efforts supported by law. These efforts must occur on all levels, from global to local, and by all actors, whether governmental, international, non-governmental, or private…”

Lance Gable Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School. Brooke Courtney Associate at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC. Robert Gatter Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. Eleanor D. Kinney Hall Render Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

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[EQ] Realizing the International Human Right to Health: The Challenge of For-Profit Health Care

Realizing the International Human Right to Health:
The Challenge of For-Profit Health Care

Eleanor D. Kinney, Hall Render Professor of Law and Co-Director, Williams S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health
Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis
West Virginia Law Review [Vol. 113] 49 (2010).

Available online as PDF [18p.] at: http://bit.ly/ixnHNt

“…….Current human rights theory focuses predominantly on the government as a provider or guarantor of health care services or the financing of the same.

In human rights work, there has been less focus on the role of private, for-profit entities in the provision and insurance of health care goods and services. Clearly, the provision and insurance of health care in the world today can only be accomplished through the cooperative work of both public and private actors.

The key for success is figuring out a set of rules, based on a human rights approach, which will create an environment in which both public and private actors can succeed in bringing accessible and high quality health care goods and services to all people in the world….”

Content:

I. Introduction

II. Background

A. The Rights-Based Approach and its Evolution

B. International Economic and Free Trade System

III. For-profit health care and the international human right to health

IV. Conclusion

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