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[EQ] Annual Review of Public Health - Symposium: Comparative Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities

2012 Annual Review of Public Health (Volume 33) April 2012

Symposium: Comparative Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities

Editorial: Dedication of Volume to Barbara Starfield

Jonathan E. Fielding, Ross C. Brownson, and Lawrence W. Green.

Online at: http://bit.ly/GAUqwH

“……….This volume is dedicated to Barbara Starfield, a public health luminary who championed the critical importance of primary care as the fundamental building block for every medical care system. Barbara decried the lack of emphasis on primary care in American medicine.

She pointed out the low percentage of primary care doctors who graduated in the United States relative to other countries, despite the disproportionate contribution of primary care to the health of patients individually and collectively. This deficiency, she reasoned with strong evidence, was in large part responsible for the poorer health outcomes in the United States compared with other developed nations.

Her comparison of Canada and the United States highlighted the primary care infrastructure in the former and related that difference to both lower costs and better health outcomes in Canada. Through her seminal work disseminated via books, more than 175 published papers, and innumerable lectures, her message reached countries throughout the world. Both developing and developed nations have adopted her framework for organizing primary care and the tools to assess the health status of children and adolescents.

Trained as a pediatrician and health care researcher, Barbara was a convincing and thoughtful scholar. She was University Distinguished Service Professor at Johns Hopkins from 1994 to her death. She was also Director of the Johns Hopkins University Primary Care Research Center. Barbara was a careful researcher, carefully amassing evidence that identified key characteristics of an effective primary care system. But she was also a cherished mentor to such a great number of health service researchers.

Barbara was a productive member of our Editorial Advisory Board, which selects topics and authors to appear in the Annual Review of Public Health. She was also a valued contributor to this series in past years and was the senior author on an important article in this current volume, as well. Barbara was also the cofounder and first President of the International Society for Equity in Health, with the mission to contribute knowledge that could further equity in the distribution of health care…..”

Table of Contents at: http://bit.ly/GCsQjB

Health Disparities Research in Global Perspective: New Insights and New Directions

Shiriki Kumanyika

Health Inequalities: Trends, Progress, and Policy

Sara N. Bleich, Marian P. Jarlenski, Caryn N. Bell, and Thomas A. LaVeist

Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Health Disparities

Ana V. Diez Roux

How Society Shapes the Health Gradient: Work-Related Health Inequalities in a Comparative Perspective

Christopher B. McLeod, Peter A. Hall, Arjumand Siddiqi, and Clyde Hertzman

 

Disparities in Infant Mortality and Effective, Equitable Care: Are Infants Suffering from Benign Neglect?

Diane L. Rowley and Vijaya Hogan

 

Clinical Care and Health Disparities

B. Starfield, J. GĂ©rvas, and D. Mangin

 

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

A Review of Spatial Methods in Epidemiology, 2000–2010

Amy H. Auchincloss, Samson Y. Gebreab, Christina Mair, and Ana V. Diez Roux

Early Intervention to Reduce the Global Health and Economic Burden of Major Depression in Older Adults

Charles F. Reynolds III, Pim Cuijpers, Vikram Patel, Alex Cohen, Amit Dias, Neerja Chowdhary, Olivia I. Okereke, Mary Amanda Dew, Stewart J. Anderson, Sati Mazumdar, Frank Lotrich, and Steven M. Albert

Preventability of Cancer: The Relative Contributions of Biologic and Social and Physical Environmental Determinants of Cancer Mortality

Graham A. Colditz and Esther K. Wei

The Hurrider I Go the Behinder I Get: The Deteriorating International Ranking of U.S. Health Status

Stephen Bezruchka

Unintentional Injuries: Magnitude, Prevention, and Control

Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Adnan A. Hyder, Hadley K. Herbert, and Kent Stevens

Environmental and Occupational Health

Community-Based Approaches to Controlling Childhood Asthma

Noreen M. Clark

Future Challenges to Protecting Public Health from Drinking-Water Contaminants

Eileen A. Murphy, Gloria B. Post, Brian T. Buckley, Robert L. Lippincott, and Mark G. Robson

Speed Limits, Enforcement, and Health Consequences

Rune Elvik

Toward a Systems Approach to Enteric Pathogen Transmission: From Individual Independence to Community Interdependence

Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, James Trostle, Reed J.D. Sorensen, and Katherine F. Shields

Public Health Practice

 

Advertising of Prescription-Only Medicines to the Public: Does Evidence of Benefit Counterbalance Harm?

Barbara Mintzes

Economic Evaluation of Pharmaco- and Behavioral Therapies for Smoking Cessation: A Critical and Systematic Review of Empirical Research

Jennifer Prah Ruger and Christina M. Lazar

Policies for Healthier Communities: Historical, Legal, and Practical Elements of the Obesity Prevention Movement

Samantha K. Graff, Manel Kappagoda, Heather M. Wooten, Angela K. McGowan, and Marice Ashe

Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration

Dora M. Dumont, Brad Brockmann, Samuel Dickman, Nicole Alexander, and Josiah D. Rich

Quitlines and Nicotine Replacement for Smoking Cessation: Do We Need to Change Policy?

John P. Pierce, Sharon E. Cummins, Martha M. White, Aimee Humphrey, and Karen Messer

Systems Science Methods in Public Health: Dynamics, Networks, and Agents

Douglas A. Luke and Katherine A. Stamatakis

Health Services

From Small Area Variations to Accountable Care Organizations: How Health Services Research Can Inform Policy

Harold S. Luft

Suicide Mortality in the United States: The Importance of  Attending to Method in Understanding Population-Level Disparities in the Burden of Suicide

Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and Catherine Barber

The Medicalization of Chronic Disease and Costs

Kenneth E. Thorpe and Meredith Philyaw

The Methods of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Harold C. Sox and Steven N. Goodman

 

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[EQ] The Health of Canada's Young People: a mental health focus

The Health of Canada's Young People: a mental health focus

 

John G. Freeman, Matthew King, and William Pickett WITH Wendy Craig, Frank Elgar, Ian Janssen, and Don Klinger

Public Health Agency of Canada 2011

 

 

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

The main purpose to inform and influence health promotion and health education policy and programs at national and international levels, as well as to increase understanding of young people's health and well-being.

 

Core objectives:

 

1.To conduct national and international research on health behaviour, health and wellhbeing, and the social contexts of school-aged children.

2.To contribute new theoretical, conceptual, and methodological knowledge pertaining to these areas of research.

3.To compare health experiences among young people in Canada with those in other countries.

4.To disseminate findings to the relevant audiences including researchers, health and education policy makers, health promotion practitioners, teachers, parents and young people.

5.To develop partnerships with other agencies who deal with adolescent health, in order to support health promotion efforts with populations of school-aged children.

6.To inform policy making and program development.

7.To contribute national expertise on health behaviour and on the social determinants of health in school-aged children

Table of Contents

Foreword
Executive summary

Chapter 1 : Introduction

Chapter 2 : Mental health

Development of mental health indicators

Psychosomatic symptoms in Canadian students

Life satisfaction among students

What young people thought about these findings


Chapter 3 : Home

What is the home setting?

Why does the home setting matter?

Possible effects of the home setting on mental health

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Living arrangements of Canadian students

Reports of happiness at home

Parental communication, understanding, and trust

Parental opinion and expectations

Conflict with parents

Eating dinner with family

Relationships between home/parent relationships and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 4 : School

The importance of the school environment

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Young people's educational experiences

School attendance

Relationships between the school experience and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 5 : Peers

The importance of peers

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Same-sex friends

Opposite-sex friends

Best friends

Interactions with friends

Relationships between peers and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

 

Chapter 6 : Neighbourhood

What is a neighbourhood?

Why are neighbourhoods important to health?

Possible effects of neighbourhoods on mental health

Geographic information

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Physical characteristics of school neighbourhoods

Traffic

Parks and recreational facilities

Social characteristics of school neighbourhoods

Economic characteristics of school neighbourhoods

Relationships between neighbourhood characteristics and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 7 : Injury

What is injury?

Why does injury matter?

Possible relationships between injury and mental health

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Description of the injury problem

Impact of injury on young people's lives

Trends in injury over time

How are young people injured?

Where are young people injured?

Which activities lead to the most serious injuries?

Risk and protective factors

Drinking, drug use and driving

Injury and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

 

Chapter 8 : Healthy living

What is healthy living?

What is physical activity?

What is sedentary behaviour?

Healthy eating

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Effects of healthy living on mental health

Physical activity

Sedentary behaviours of Canadian young people

Food frequency patterns in Canadian young people

Eating behaviours in Canadian young people

Relations between healthy living and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 9 : Healthy weights

What is a healthy weight?

Body image

Why do body weight and body image matter?

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Possible effects of being overweight or obese on mental health

Healthy weights, overweight, and obesity

Body image and weight-loss practices of Canadian students

Relations between healthy weight, body image, and weight loss practices

Relations between healthy weight and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 10 : Substance use and risky behaviour

Why are health risk behaviours important?

What are we reporting in this chapter?

Smoking

Alcohol

Cannabis use

Perceived risks of substance use

Sexual activity

Substance use and risky behaviours in relation to mental health

What young people thought about these findings

Chapter 11 : Bullying and fighting

What is bullying?

Why do bullying and fighting matter?

What are we reporting in this chapter?

How young people are victimized

Fighting

Bullying and mental health

Fighting and mental health

What young people thought about these findings

 

Chapter 12 : Summary and conclusion

Mental health status of young people in Canada

Other indicators of health status among young Canadians

Behavioural factors related to mental health

Context and health in young Canadians

Contextual factors and mental health

The HBSC youth engagement workshop

 

        Conclusion

 

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[EQ] Conference: Global Health Challenges & the Role of Law - May 4 & 5, 2012 Toronto, Canada

Global Health Challenges & the Role of Law


2012 National Health Law Conference
May 4 & 5, 2012 Toronto, Canada

Website: http://bit.ly/xH5IXv

Participants will discuss and seek solutions to these global health challenges:

•           How can we improve global access to care and essential medicines on the part of the most vulnerable
            – can law make a substantive change?

•           Can we regulate to ensure fair access to health and health care given the global rise of medical tourism,
            global trade and assisted reproductive technologies?

•           What impact can law make in addressing the global spread of chronic diseases and the rise, for example, of the obesity epidemic?

•           In the legal world we think we can meet global health challenges through law and litigation,
            but to what extent is that true and what are the context and circumstances where law/litigation can really
             make a positive difference in improving global welfare?

 

The 2012 conference will feature a keynote panel debate on:
"Can Law Meet Global Health Challenges?  Perspectives from Medicine and Politics"

Abdallah S. Daar, Senior Scientist and Director of Ethics and Commercialization, Sandra Rotman Centre; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UoT

Theodore R. Marmor, Health Care Policy, Politics and Law Expert, Yale University

Michael Ignatieff, Former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto

James Orbinski, Chair and Professor in Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Co-Director, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The Conference is organized by the CIHR Training Program in Health Law, Ethics & Policy and the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in collaboration with the FacultĂ© de droit de l'UniversitĂ© de Sherbrooke; the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta; and the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. 

2012 sponsors:

Blaney McMurtry LLP- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP  -Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto  -Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Health Services and Policy Research -Dykeman Dewhirst O'Brien LLP -Fasken Martineau LLP -Global Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto - Scotiabank-Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Lecture and Conference Fund

From: Trudo Lemmens [mailto:trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca]

 

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