Health Equity: October 2012

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

[EQ] Social Epidemiology - Questionable Answers and Answerable Questions

Social Epidemiology
Questionable Answers and Answerable Questions

Sam Harper and Erin Strumpf, Assistant Professors in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health at McGill University, where Erin Strumpf also holds an appointment in the Department of Economics.

Sam Harper works on measuring social inequalities in health and how they change over time. Erin Strumpf's research in health economics focuses on measuring the causal impacts of health and health care policies on spending and health outcomes overall, and in inequalities across groups..

Epidemiology: November 2012 - Volume 23 - Issue 6

Website: http://bit.ly/Rk2pk6

“………….Social epidemiology encompasses the study of relationships between health and a broad range of social factors such as race, social class, gender, social policies, and so on.

One could broadly partition the work of social epidemiology into surveillance (ie, descriptive relationships between social factors and health, tracking of health inequalities over time) and etiology (ie, causal effects of social exposures on health).1 Many social epidemiologists believe these twin pursuits should ultimately serve to structure interventions aimed at reducing health-damaging social exposures or increasing exposure to social factors that enhance health…..”

Epidemiology:

November 2012 - Volume 23 - Issue 6 - p 795–798 - doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31826d078d

The Changing Face of Epidemiology
Table of Contents http://bit.ly/XfyEEG

The Changing Face of Epidemiology

Commentary: Epidemiologic Methods Are Useless: They Can Only Give You Answers

Kaufman, Jay S.; Hernán, Miguel A.

Free Access

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Monday, October 22, 2012

[EQ] Today online CRICS Plenary on Knowledge networks for SDOH - 4:00-5:45 pm EST Oct 23rd, 2012

IX Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information – CRICS9
Topic: eHealth: Getting closer to universal access to health

October 23^rd, 2012- CRICS9 Washington, D.C., USA. Headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO

To follow online: http://bit.ly/qsdMXP - Webcast from 4:00pm to 5:45 pm EST

Plenary Session 4: Technologies of Information and Communication applied to the Health

Moderator: Luiz Augusto Galvão, Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO

When we know enough to recommend action on the social determinants of health?

Paula Braveman - Professor of Family and Community Medicine. Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco

Clement Bezold –Director Institute for Alternative Futures, USA

Manuel Urbina - Coordinador del Comité Permanente para el Estudio de los Determinantes Sociales Academia de Medicina en México

John Ruffin - Director of National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) at the US National Institute of Health

Paulo Marchiori Buss - Diretor Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro/RJ – Brasil

Sir Michael Marmot emphasizes the importance of networking and Knowledge networks

In a video especially recorded for CRICS9, Sir Michael Marmot, Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, from World Health Organization (WHO), shares his experience in leading this initiative, emphasizing the importance of networking, consolidation of knowledge networks and learning with the realities of different countries.
Brazil, Chile, Canada, UK and other countries emphasize the role of examples in developing programs to improve the social determinants of health.

Sir Michael Marmot’s Video available at: http://bit.ly/W7LWCL

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[EQ] Growing inequality is one of the biggest social, economic and political challenges of our time. But it is not inevitable

The Economist - Special report: The world economy

For richer, for poorer

….Growing inequality is one of the biggest social, economic and political challenges of our time. But it is not inevitable….

The Economist Oct 13th 2012 http://econ.st/QNGakg

“…..Although inequality has been on the rise for three decades, its political prominence is newer. During the go-go years before the financial crisis, growing disparities were hardly at the top of politicians’ to-do list. One reason was that asset bubbles and cheap credit eased life for everyone. Financiers were growing fabulously wealthy in the early 2000s, but others could also borrow ever more against the value of their home.

That changed after the crash. The bank rescues shone a spotlight on the unfairness of a system in which affluent bankers were bailed out whereas ordinary folk lost their houses and jobs. And in today’s sluggish economies, more inequality often means that people at the bottom and even in the middle of the income distribution are falling behind not just in relative but also in absolute terms.

The Occupy Wall Street campaign proved incoherent and ephemeral, but inequality and fairness have moved right up the political agenda…”

Latin America - Gini back in the bottle

An unequal continent is becoming less so

The Economist Oct 13th 2012 at: http://econ.st/Usi591

“……According to Nora Lustig, an economist at the University of Tulane and one of the first to document the narrowing of the region’s income gaps, two things have made a big difference.

First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.

Second, governments around Latin America have reinforced the narrowing of wage gaps with social spending targeted at people with the lowest incomes. These include more generous pensions and conditional cash transfers—schemes that offer payment to the poorest families in return for meeting specific conditions, such as making sure their children go to school.

The most striking change has been in education….”

In this special report

· For richer, for poorer

· As you were

· Like a piece of string

· Like father, not like son

· The rich and the rest

· Makers and takers

· Crony tigers, divided dragons

· Lessons from Palanpur

· Gini back in the bottle

· The new model

· Having your cake

· A True Progressivism

Thank you.

[EQ] Knowledge networks for SDOH - Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information CRICS9 22-24 October - WDC

IX Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information – CRICS9
Topic: eHealth: Getting closer to universal access to health

22 to 24 October - CRICS9 Washington, D.C., USA. Headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO

To follow online: http://bit.ly/qsdMXP

Program: http://bit.ly/Vv1cvQ

Main tracks:

CRICS9 will be an open forum for discussion on issues relevant to Public Health in the Americas, organized into five tracks:

ü Information for health-related decision - information management, digital libraries and repositories, and information needs

ü Strategies and policies - development and sustainability, technical cooperation among countries and governments

ü Information and communication technologies - mHealth, interoperability, accessibility, and standards

ü Telehealth - models and programs applied to primary care, telehealth services development integrated into national health systems

ü Capacity building - communication for health promotion, use of social networks, and digital literacy.

CRICS 9 / CRICS9 Program

Monday, 22 de October de 2012

Opening Ceremony

Mirta Roses, Director, Pan American Health Organization

Marcelo D' Agostino, Manager, Knowledge Management and Communications,

Adalberto Tardelli, Director, BIREME/PAHO and President of CRICS9

Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, USA

Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association, USA

Key Address

eHealth – Reaching Universal Access to Health

Ariel Pablos-Méndez - Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID

Plenary Session 1: eHealth Strategy and Public Policies

Moderator: Marcelo D'Agostino - KMC Pan American Health Organization

David Novillo – KMC/KM Pan American Health Organization

René Prieto - Ministerio de Salud, Chile

Georges Benjamin - American Public Health Association, USA

Panels

Strategic alliances in eHealth

Democratization of the access to information and scientific knowledge

Knowledge translation

Information management in emergencies and disasters: from one way communication to social media

Public eHealth, Innovation and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The eSAC Project

Plenary Session 2: Telehealth: models, programs and services

Moderator: Rubén Torres - HSS Pan American Health Organization

Patricia Mechael - mHealth Alliance, USA

Ana Estela Haddad - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Tomás J. Sanabria - Telesalud Internacional, Venezuela

Announcement of the Programs "Best Practices in Telehealth" in Latin American, Humberto Alves
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Courses and workshops

HINARI and Research4Life resources WHO

Improving the search in LILACS (in Spanish)

Instructional design: in the construction of the distance course applied to the Virtual Health Campus - part 1

EQUATOR Network: Guidance to encourage accurate and transparent reporting in health research publications

EQUATOR Network, United Kingdom

Tuesday, 23 de October de 2012

Plenary Session 3: Integrating Scientific evidence in health decision

Moderator: Luis Gabriel Cuervo – HSS Pan American Health Organization

Zulma Ortiz - UNICEF, Argentina

Kay Dickersin - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Lely Solari - Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú

Jorge Barreto - Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Piripiri, Brazil

Isabel Noguer - Pan-American Health Organization

Panels

Information and communication platforms for the collaborative work in health

Interoperability and standards among health services

New paradigms for libraries

Experiences and tools for information management in emergencies and disasters

Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in health promotion

Plenary Session 4: Technologies of Information and Communication applied to the Health

Moderator: Luiz Augusto Galvão, Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO

When we know enough to recommend action on the social determinants of health?

Paula Braveman - Professor of Family and Community Medicine. Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco

Clement Bezold –Director Institute for Alternative Futures, USA

Manuel Urbina - Coordinador del Comité Permanente para el Estudio de los Determinantes Sociales Academia de Medicina en México

John Ruffin - Director of National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) at the US National Institute of Health

Paulo Marchiori Buss - Diretor Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro/RJ – Brasil

Exhibition – The Unified Health System of Brazil

Courses and workshops

Social Media: introduction to the basics of social media tools for knowledge management, dissemination and networking

Efficient access to Lilacs - in English

Instructional design: in the construction of the distance course applied to the Virtual Health Campus - part 2

Wednesday, 24 de October de 2012

Plenary Session 5: Capabilities development

Moderator: Ian S Brooks - University of Illinois, USA

Antônio Ivo de Carvalho - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Brazil

Francisco Campos - Universidade Aberta do SUS, Brazil

Alexander Solís - Foundation for the Coordination of Information Resources for Disaster Prevention, Costa Rica

Roberto Zayas - Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas, Cuba

Panels

Telehealth Experiences in Latin America

Open access policies and digital repositories

Evaluation and systems information

Democratization access for information and scientific knowledge

eLearning and educational telehealth

Sir Michael Marmot emphasizes the importance of networking and Knowledge networks

Sir Michael Marmot’s Video available at: http://bit.ly/W7LWCL