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Friday, April 27, 2012

[EQ] Health at the heart of Sustainable Development Indicators - Seminar May 2nd 2012

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20
Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO

Health at the heart of Sustainable Development Indicators

XIII Seminar: 2^nd May 2012
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - EDT (Washington, DC USA)
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Website PAHO/WHO Rio+20 at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS

Agenda

12:00 Welcome and introduction:
Dr, Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Senior Advisor on Environmental and Occupational Risks, PAHO/WHO

12:05 Global Initiative of Sustainable Development Indicators and Health:
Dr. Carlos Dora, Coordinator, Interventions for Healthy Environments, WHO

12:15 Environmental Health and Inequalities: Constructing indicators for sustainable development:
Dr. Guilherme Franco Netto, Director Department of Environmental Health and Workers Health, Ministry of Health, Brazil

12:25 Healthy People 2020:
Cecilia Rosales, M.D, M.S. Arizona BHC Commission Member, University of Arizona

12:35 Comments
Dr. Carlos Corvalan, Senior Advisor, Risk Assessment and Global Environmental Change, PAHO/Brazil

12:45 Questions and Answers

1:00 Closure

Moderator: Dr, Carlos Santos-Burgoa. Senior Advisor on Environmental and Occupational Risks, PAHO/WHO

How to participate

In person: at PAHO/WHO
525 23rd ST NW Washington DC, 20037 Room 812 – 12h to 13h Eastern Time (WDC)

Online: via Elluminate link:
In Spanish with simultaneous translation to English
Select language:

- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE

- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars

Related material:

Current Ideas on Sustainable Development Goals and Indicators
RIO 2012 Issues Briefs - Produced by the UNCSD Secretariat No. 6 at: http://bit.ly/IyoMeK

OECD: http://bit.ly/IitvHH

Environmental health inequalities in Europe
Assessment report http://bit.ly/xA9tmV

“………..WHO's Director Dr. Margaret Chan, has said on many occasions "what gets measured, gets done". The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a good example. All countries are concerned about achieving their targets by 2015. They are measuring, they are doing.

As the process towards sustainable development evolves, soon MDGs will end and most likely, a new set of Sustainable Development Goals, with targets and indicators, will take their place. It is therefore of most importance that we begin to discuss how should “health” play in this new scenario.

For the Rio+20 discussions, we hear of many key topics to be addressed, from food security, to water, energy, cities, jobs, oceans, islands, disasters, climate change, biodiversity, land degradation, education, gender equality, production and consumption, chemicals, wastes, and others. We see health in all of them. We see health central to many of them. This Seminar brings together key thinkers and specialists who will discuss the topic of Sustainable Development Indicators from a health perspective.

Health is, after all, the best measure of how people are developing. There is no health without development but neither is there development without health….

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20

The SDE Seminar series will happen every Wednesday from 12 to 1pm (EDT), from February 8 to June 13th.

All Seminars will be live streamed, and open for participation in person at the PAHO/WHO headquarters, or via Elluminate.

For those who cannot follow the live seminar, we will have it available later at PAHO Rio+20 Toolkit at: http://bit.ly/Hq7CyF

Non Communicable Diseases

No.12 Economic and social aspects of Non Communicable Diseases NCDs

http://bit.ly/IisLCg

Non Communicable Diseases

No.11 Non Communicable Diseases and Sustainable Development

http://bit.ly/JGgnvr

Workers health

No.10 Green Economy /Green Jobs: Health Risks & Benefits
http://bit.ly/IhCwK2

Regional Experiences

No. 9 The Voice and Experience of the Caribbean Islands towards SD
http://bit.ly/HGvKCh

Road Safety

No. 8 Road Safety and Public Transportation towards Sustainable Development:
an agenda for health for Rio+20
http://bit.ly/IS7rAH

Globalization

No. 7 Globalization and Health Equity towards Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/HJ0PTT

Civil Society

No. 6 The Voices of Civil Society - Creating the Healthy Future
http://bit.ly/HRsJyd

Working Environments
No. 5 Employment and working conditions for Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/ILtlHE

The Environment

No. 4 Amazon Region: Environment and Health in the Context of Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/IlMMmK

Climate Change

No. 3 Climate Change and health in the context of Rio+20
http://bit.ly/J7NLFJ

Water

No. 2 Water and Sanitation
http://bit.ly/HP7kGw

Sustainable Development

No. 1 Public Health Challenges
http://bit.ly/Iv3LWW

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[EQ] People and the planet

People and the planet

The Royal Society - Science Policy Centre report 01/12 - April 2012 DES2470

Available online PDF [134p.] at: http://bit.ly/IdIq53

“………The 21st century is a critical period for people and the planet. The global population reached 7 billion during 2011 and the United Nations projections indicate that it will reach between 8 and 11 billion by 2050.

Human impact on the Earth raises serious concerns, and in the richest parts of the world per capita material consumption is far above the level that can be sustained for everyone in a population of 7 billion or more. This is in stark contrast to the world’s 1.3 billion poorest people, who need to consume more in order to be raised out of extreme poverty.

The highest fertility rates are now seen primarily in the least developed countries while the lowest fertility rates are seen in the more developed countries, and increasingly in Asia and Latin America. Despite a decline in fertility almost everywhere, global population is still growing at about 80 million per year, because of the demographic momentum inherent in a large cohort of young people.

The global rate of population growth is already declining, but the poorest countries are neither experiencing, nor benefiting from, this decline……….”

“…………..Population is not only about the growing numbers of people: changes in age structure, migration, urbanisation and population decline present both opportunities and challenges to human health, wellbeing and the environment. Migrants often provide benefits to their countries of origin, through remittances, and to their host countries by helping to offset a workforce gap in ageing populations.

Current and future migration will be affected by environmental change, although lack of resources may mean that the most vulnerable to these changes are the least able to migrate. Policy makers should prepare for international migration and its consequences, for integration of migrants and for protection of their human rights………”

“…..Developing countries will be building the equivalent of a city of a million people every five days from now to 2050. The continuing and rapid growth of the urban population is having a marked bearing on lifestyle and behaviour: how and what they consume, how many children they have, the type of employment they undertake. Urban planning is essential to avoid the spread of slums, which are highly deleterious to the welfare of individuals and societies.

Key recommendations include:

The international community must bring the 1.3 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day out of absolute poverty, and reduce the inequality that persists in the world today. This will require focused efforts in key policy areas including economic development, education, family planning and health.
The most developed and the emerging economies must stabilise and then reduce material consumption levels through: dramatic improvements in resource use efficiency, including: reducing waste; investment in sustainable resources, technologies and infrastructures; and systematically decoupling economic activity from environmental impact.
Reproductive health and voluntary family planning programmes urgently require political leadership and financial commitment, both nationally and internationally. This is needed to continue the downward trajectory of fertility rates, especially in countries where the unmet need for contraception is high.
Population and the environment should not be considered as two separate issues. Demographic changes, and the influences on them, should be factored into economic and environmental debate and planning at international meetings, such as the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development and subsequent meetings.

Other recommendations made in the report focus on:

- the potential for urbanisation to reduce material consumption
- removing barriers to achieve high-quality primary and secondary education for all
- undertaking more research into the interactions between consumption, demographic change and environmental impact
- implementing comprehensive wealth measures
- developing new socio-economic systems…”

Content:

Chapter 1 – Introduction

1.1 The evidence

1.2 The challenges

1.3 The search for solutions

1.4 The future

Chapter 2 – A diverse world

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Demography – a basic introduction

2.3 Recent population trends

2.4 Population challenges and opportunities

Chapter 3 – Consumption

3.1 Introduction

3.2 What is consumption and why does it matter

3.3 Material consumption patterns

3.4 Drivers of consumption

Chapter 4 – A finite planet

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Natural capital and ecosystems

4.3 Trends in environmental change due to population and consumption

4.4 Modelling human environmental impact

4.5 A finite planet?

4.6 Will markets and technology neutralize environmental constraints?

Chapter 5 – Wellbeing of people and the planet

5.1 Pathways towards sustainable development

5.2 Human wellbeing

5.3 Changing consumption patterns

5.4 Demography for wellbeing

5.5 Planning for change

Chapter 6 – Conclusions and recommendations

6.1 Human impact on the earth

6.2 Consumption, population and equality

6.3 Migration, urbanisation and ageing

6.4 Education

6.5 The role of science and technology

6.6 Economic governance

6.7 Road map

References

Appendix 1 Details of evidence received

Appendix 2 Country groupings

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[EQ] Consultation: Tackling public health priorities through the social determinants of health

Consultation:
Tackling public health priorities through the social determinants of health

The Marmot Review 2012

Website: http://bit.ly/IgSj2O

The Institute of Health Equity (IHE) has developed an approach to interventions to improve public health through the social determinants of health (SDH).The approach and accompanying analysis are currently out for consultation.

Intervening in the social determinants of health to improve priority public health conditions and reduce health inequalities
Draft - For consultation

Available online PDF [40p.] at: http://bit.ly/IJDaDv

The approach presented here demonstrates and provides rationale for a social determinants of health (SDH) approach to prevention of priority public health conditions (PPHCs) – specifically alcohol misuse, obesity and smoking.
It also provides evidence and exemplars of interventions which have been developed at local level.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Context

3. The need for a SDH approach

4. The approach: developing interventions that address the SDH

4.1 Alcohol misuse

4.2 Obesity

4.3 Smoking

5. Case studies

6. Issue arising from the approach

6.1 Developing locally appropriate interventions

6.2 Prioritising and selecting interventions

6.3 Delivering interventions

7. Monitoring and indicators

8. Conclusions

9. Appendix 1: The SDH and proportionate universalism

10. Appendix 2: SDH Glossary
11. Appendix 3: Case Studies and Indicators

List of Case Studies (Section 11 of the Report) http://bit.ly/InUB08

Please send your submissions back to Ilaria Geddes at i.geddes@ucl.ac.uk by the 25th May.

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