Thursday, October 27, 2011

[EQ] Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2011

Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2011
Youth and Young Adults —Life in Transition

 

David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada

 

Available online PDF [193p.] at: http://bit.ly/uGPkld

 

“…..The report considers many health issues affecting this population such as physical and mental health, injury, sexual and reproductive health and substance use and abuse. By discussing these issues and how they are addressed, the report identifies priority areas for action to maintain healthy transitions of young Canadians into adulthood.

 

Public health is about preventing disease and optimizing health. The focus is on promoting and supporting the health of the public, rather than treating the illnesses of individuals. By helping to keep people healthy, the public health system can help to relieve some of the pressures on the hospital and acute health-care system.4-6

Public health includes:

••food, water and air quality, including health inspection services;

••promoting health-enhancing opportunities and behaviours
  (
e.g. smoking cessation programs, healthy nutrition, prevention and treatment programs for drug and alcohol use);

••basic sanitation (e.g. sewage treatment);

••disease and injury prevention programs (e.g. vaccinations);

••monitoring, screening, diagnosis and reporting on risks and risk factors
   (
e.g. surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks and identify risk factors for communicable diseases, such as influenza, as they occur in humans); and

••identifying and changing harmful community conditions and promoting safe communities
  (e.g. impact on health due to the lack of recreational areas, safe housing, education and child care).5-8


Public health also includes factors – both inside and outside the health-care system – that affect or determine our health. These include income and socio-economic status, social support networks, education and literacy, early childhood development and healthy workplaces.9-14
The goal is to ensure everyone enjoys universal and equitable access to the basic conditions that are necessary to achieve health, whether those conditions fall within the public health system or outside of it. …”

 

Public health is defined as the organized efforts of society to keep people healthy and prevent injury, illness and premature death. It is the combination of programs, services and policies that protect and promote health

“…..Although this report focuses on the health and well-being of youth aged 12 to 19 years and young adults aged 20 to 29 years, it is relevant to all Canadians. Everyone has a role to play and everyone benefits from the creation of healthy environments. Adolescence and young adulthood is generally a time of good health and well-being; however, it is also a time of significant biological, psychological, economic and social transition. It is also a period during which most individuals establish lifelong attitudes and behaviours, setting the stage for their future health and well-being. ….”

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Content:

A Message from Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer

Executive Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

Why a report on the state of public health in Canada?

The goals of the report

What is public health?

Who is this report about?

What does the report cover?


Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for Healthy Life Transitions – A Public Health History

Public health and the lifecourse approach

Lifecourse transitions of youth and young adults

Canada’s history of promoting healthy life transitions

Moving forward


Chapter 3: The Health and Well-being of Canadian Youth and Young Adults

Social demographics of the youth and young adult population

Residence

Education, employment and income

The current health of Canada’s youth and young adults

Mental health and mental illness

Physical health

Health risk behaviours


Chapter 4: Creating Healthy Transitions

The approach

Creating supportive environments for transition

Developing resilience

Addressing risky behaviours

Enhancing positive mental health and protective factors

Approaches to preventing suicide

Preventing unintentional injury

Bullying and aggression

Sexual and reproductive health issues

Healthy weights and healthy living

Substance use and abuse


Chapter 5: Moving Forward – Priority Areas for Action

Priority areas for action

Improving and making better use of population and program evidence

Increasing education and awareness

Building and maintaining supportive and caring environments

Approaching problems from all sides with co-ordinated, multi-pronged, inter-sectoral action

Making progress


Appendix A: List of Acronyms

Appendix B: Indicators of Our Health and Factors Influencing Our Health

Appendix C: Definitions and Data Sources for Indicators

References

Figures

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[EQ] Social and Economic Costs of Violence

Social and Economic Costs of Violence - Workshop Summary


October 25, 2011

US Board on Global Health IOM

Available online at: http://bit.ly/vFW1du



“…..Violence not only causes physical and emotional damage, but also creates a social and economic burden on communities. Measuring these costs can be difficult, and most estimates only consider the direct economic effects of violence, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Beyond these clear-cut costs, however, the pain and suffering of violence can affect human and social development and increase the risk of chronic outcomes later in life.

Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the health care and justice systems. Initial estimates show that the cost of implementing successful violence prevention interventions is usually less than the cost borne by individuals and society if no action is taken.

 

The workshop was designed to examine cross-cutting public health approaches to violence prevention from multiple perspectives and at various levels of society. Participants focused on exploring the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention. Speakers discussed social and economic costs of violence at four levels: individual, family, community, and societal. This document is a summary of the workshop…..”

Content

1 Introduction  

2 Approaches to Measurement and Costing Methodology  

3 Challenges in Calculating Costs  

4 Toward a Bigger Picture of the Costs of Violence  

5 The Promise of Investing in Violence Prevention

6 Direct and Indirect Costs of Violence

7 Context and Place

8 Investing in Prevention

Appendix A Workshop Agenda

 

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[EQ] Open Development - Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development

Open Development

World Bank Institute's (WBI) magazine Development Outreach
September 2011

 

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

 

“…..Transparency, accountability, citizen’s voice.

 

 Like gender and anticorruption before them, these are no longer just political issues, off limits to the World Bank as a nonpolitical organization. As you will see from these pages, they are part of how we define Open Development. Bob Zoellick sees at its root a need to ”Democratize Development.”

 

From citizen’s empowerment, to wikiresearch, to using SMS technology to monitor children’s weight, or check whether books and teachers arrive at schools, the goal is the same: to put development into the hands of people.

 

“….Open Development is powerful, it’s unstoppable, and it’s already transforming the way we look at development, governance, and citizens. And as it unfolds it brings with it a logic all its own. ….”

 

Content:

The Contours and Possibilities of Open Development

Sanjay Pradhan and Sina Odugbemi http://bit.ly/vLEvj7

A timeline of development economics at the WORLD BANK - Robert Zoellick


AS A MATTER OF FACT...Country Comparisons


Enabling Open Government -
Anupama Dokeniya


Open Development: Beyond Proprietary Solutions -
Angge Gregorio-Medel


The Power of Public Discourse -
Kavita Abraham Dowsing and James Deane


in the news
Interview with Steven Livingston on Information Systems and Development


New Media: Challenging the Establishment
http://bit.ly/t0npGd - Ivan Sigal


Producing Home Grown Solutions:
Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
http://bit.ly/ugHSAh


Co-Creating Development
 http://bit.ly/t2oTnh - Venkat Ramaswamy

Acess to Aid Data Transforms Lives  Alasdair Wardhaugh

Enhanced Social Acountability through Open Acess to Data: Geomapping World Bank Projects

Björn-Sören Gigler, R. Bedford Tanner III, and Johannes Kiess

Debate: Whose Business is Development? Not a Popularity Contest: Bringing Rigor to Open Development

Ariel Fiszbein

Experts in an Open Society - Rakesh Rajani

 

 

Full document  [644MB] at: http://bit.ly/sllnVh

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