Health Equity: 06/28/12

Thursday, June 28, 2012

[EQ] Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: Inclusion and Innovation Towards Universal Health Coverage - 31 October- 3 November 2012 - Beijing

Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research:

Inclusion and Innovation Towards Universal Health Coverage

31 October- 3 November 2012 - Beijing, People's Republic of China

Marketplace and Satellite session registrations remain open until August 15, 2012

Health Systems Global, the new society for health systems research that will be launched at the Symposium

Preliminary list of 9 suggested thematic working groups, to be discussed at the general members’ meeting in Beijing at the global symposium (3 Nov 2012).:

1. The Health Systems Researcher: This group focuses on transforming and scaling up the education and training of health professionals, addressing metrics, standards and curriculum development. What does it take to become a health systems researcher? What training materials and courses are needed and are available?

2. Methods to Measure Health System Performance: This group will explore current methodological debates in the field of health systems research. Topics could include developing new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of innovation; evaluation, methodologies currently being used to measure equity; and conducting systematic reviews of health systems research.

3. Mentoring Young Researchers: A working group focusing on those under 40 that will support abstract development and help young researchers with their research/article writing Young researchers will organize their own session at symposia and be in touch throughout the year on issues they select.

4. Priority-setting in Health: A working group to look at health policies, models and theories related to setting priorities and taking decisions, and the role of the community in decision-making. Practical experiences will also be shared and discussed.

5. Health Systems and the Law: This working group will address the legal aspects of health systems. Key issues could include legal constraints to task-shifting in the health-care workforce, patient rights and the legal structure of health care centres and organizations.

6. Fragile Sates: This working group will looks at health systems and fragile states. How do health systems function in such settings and how are they best rebuilt? What is the relationship between national and international players?

7. Universal Health Insurance and Health Care Financing: This working group will continue the debate about how best to achieve universal access including risk protection and what are the barriers. Who pays and how much?

8. Knowledge Translation: Studying and evaluating knowledge transfer and exchange in public policy-making and program environment.

9. Urban Health: This working groups aims to look at how to redress inequities in the urban space. For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities, almost all of this growth will occur in cities of the developing world and overwhelmingly, among the urban poor. The group aims to galvanize research and policy attention towards the heath-related needs of the urban poor, with particular attention to the underlying social determinants of inequities

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[EQ] Achieving Health Equity in Ontario: POWER Study Release

The POWER Study’s final chapter is now available for download – June 27, 2012
Conclusions

Achieving Health Equity in Ontario: Opportunities for Intervention and Improvement (chapter 13)

Available online in a ZIP file at: http://bit.ly/MYbkod

“……The Project for an Ontario Women’s Health Evidence-Based Report (POWER) Study has produced a comprehensive provincial women’s health report. We examined an extensive set of evidence-based indicators bridging population health and health system performance.

The Women's Health Equity Report provides actionable data for policy makers, providers, and consumers in their efforts to improve health and reduce health inequities in Ontario.

POWER has examined gender differences in access to care, as well as quality and outcomes of care for the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the province and how they differ by gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and geography.

Important patterns emerged as we reviewed the findings across all of the POWER chapters. This final chapter describes these patterns and uses evidence from the POWER Study to identify opportunities to improve health equity in Ontario. A summary of the key findings from each of the POWER reports are also presented.

The POWER Study’s proposed Leading Set of Health Equity Indicators are presented and key opportunities for improving data capacity in the province are outlined. Finally, we provide the POWER Health Equity Road Map, a ten-step plan to support efforts to achieve health equity in the province.

This road map emerged from the themes identified across the POWER Study chapters and from broad community consultation and dialogue. The time to move forward is now. What is needed is the will and commitment. …”

Ashley Johns, MSc
Research Coordinator, The POWER Study
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

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[EQ] The Future We Want - RIO+20 conference outcome document

The Future We Want - RIO+20 conference outcome document

United Nations A/CONF.216/L.1* 22 June 2012

PDF file [53p.] Available online at: http://bit.ly/MY5uRR

Website: http://bit.ly/OCCEh7

….includes the agreements on principles, priorities and follow up action to achieve sustainable development.

The future we want

“….. Our common vision

1. We, the Heads of State and Government and high-level representatives, having met at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, with the full participation of civil society, renew our commitment to sustainable development and to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for our planet and for present and future generations.

2. Eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. In this regard we are committed to freeing humanity from poverty and hunger as a matter of urgency.

3. We therefore acknowledge the need to further mainstream sustainable development at all levels, integrating economic, social and environmental aspects and recognizing their interlinkages, so as to achieve sustainable development in all its dimensions.

4. We recognize that poverty eradication, changing unsustainable and promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social development are the overarching objectives of and essential requirements for sustainable development.

We also reaffirm the need to achieve sustainable development by promoting sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth, creating greater opportunities for all, reducing inequalities, raising basic standards of living, fostering equitable social development and inclusion, and promoting integrated and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems that supports, inter alia, economic, social and human development while facilitating ecosystem conservation, regeneration and restoration and resilience in the face of new and emerging challenges. ….”

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