Health Equity: 07/23/12

Monday, July 23, 2012

[EQ] Vacancies CARPHA - Caribbean Public Health Agency

Vacancy Notice No: CARPHA/12/FT259

Director, Surveillance & Risk Assessment

Application Deadline: 31 July 2012

Duty Station: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

CARPHA - Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

URL: https://erecruit.who.int/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?so=C&jobinfo_uid_c=26272&vaclng=en

CARPHA is the Health Agency of the Caribbean region with a collective response to strengthen and reorient the health system and approach to address the changing nature of public health challenges, particularly in relation to communicable diseases such as HIV / AIDS and Non-Communicable Diseases, such as obesity, cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

CARPHA will support this by adopting a truly people-centred, evidence-based approach to its work. It will also address long term persistent health threats to the Region related to natural disasters

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Vacancy Notice No: CARPHA/12/FT260

Executive Director

Application Deadline: 31 July 2012

Duty Station: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

CARPHA - Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

URL https://erecruit.who.int/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?so=C&jobinfo_uid_c=26275&vaclng=en

Under the supervision of the CARPHA Executive Board the incumbent assists in the planning, organization, operation and evaluation of CARPHA's administrative services

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Vacancy Notice No: CARPHA/12/FT261

Director, Corporate Services

Application Deadline: 31 July 2012

Duty Station: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

CARPHA - Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

URL:
https://erecruit.who.int/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?so=C&jobinfo_uid_c=26273&vaclng=en

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[EQ] More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World

More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World

Shaohua Chen, World Bank
Martin Ravallion, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
July 1, 2012 - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6114

Available online PDF [34p.] at:
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2012/07/02/000158349_20120702111420/Rendered/PDF/WPS6114.pdf

“…..Relative deprivation, shame and social exclusion can matter to the welfare of people everywhere. The authors argue that such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard measures of relative poverty.

The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household surveys spanning 125 countries over 1981-2008.

The absolute line is $1.25 a day at 2005 prices, while the relative line rises with the mean, at a gradient of 1:2 above $1.25 a day. The authors show that these parameter choices are consistent with cross-country data on national poverty lines.

The results indicate that the incidence of both absolute and weakly-relative poverty in the developing world has been falling since the 1990s, but more slowly for the relative measure. While the number of absolutely poor has fallen, the number of relatively poor has changed little since the 1990s, and is higher in 2008 than 1981………”

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[EQ] Call for Proposals for Implementation Research

Call for Proposals for Implementation Research

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

World Health Organization

Deadline for Submission of Proposals: 15 September 2012

Interested applicants should pre-register online by 20 August 2012

For full details and submission guidelines, please go to: 
  http://bit.ly/MWHEq6

“…..The purpose of this Call is to support implementation research that contributes to the scale-up of effective health interventions related to MDGs 4, 5 and 6 in one of the three priority areas described in the following section. The research proposals may be submitted for one of the following priority areas:

i) Strategies to facilitate the integration of services to result in improved health outcomes and greater efficiencies:

ii) Strategies to improve the performance of health workers (through strengthened supervision and increased motivation) to deliver quality services

iii) Strategies for community engagement to increase awareness of, access to, and utilization of health services, and provision of appropriate services at the community level.

The proposed research should seek to adopt a systems perspective which may require a multi-disciplinary research team and the need to engage multiple stakeholders, including the women and men at whom the services are ultimately directed. In addition to ensuring a systems perspective, research-study supported through this call should incorporate the following considerations:

- Equity – the proposed research should consider the potential benefit and empowerment of vulnerable populations, particularly women and children.

- Innovation – the proposed research should to respond to implementation issues not previously addressed by other research and strive to use new methods and approaches or apply existing methods in new ways.

- Capacity building – the proposed research study should provide opportunities to strengthen capacity for the conduct of research and use of evidence for the implementation and scale up of effective interventions. It should also ensure a gender balance in its capacity building activities.

FUNDING

The size of the budget for each grant should be based on the scope and focus of each research study appropriate for the setting the study will be carried out. The budget for the 2-year research study cannot exceed US$ 350 000. Additional funding from other sources should be sought if the budget is anticipated to exceed this amount.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 September 2012.

Lydia Bendib, Technical Officer

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

World Health Organization - Geneva Switzerland

email: alliancehpsr@who.int

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[EQ] Social Determinants of Health - Canadian Best Practices Portal

Social Determinants of Health - Canadian Best Practices Portal

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“……The social determinants of health influence the health of populations. They include income and social status; social support networks; education; employment/working conditions; social environments; physical environments; personal health practices and coping skills; healthy child development; gender; and culture.

These resources provide Canadian and international information to help you plan approaches to address the social determinants of health.

Data on the Social Determinants of Health

A first step to planning approaches to address the social determinants of health is to understand more about them through surveillance data:

The social determinants of health in Canada Non-Medical Determinants of Health
Data tables, maps and fact sheets, Statistics Canada

Chronic Disease Infobase Data Cubes Public Health Agency of Canada

Indicators of Health Inequalities
Population Health Promotion Expert Group and the Healthy Living Issue Group for the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network (2009)

Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2008 (Health Inequalities)
Chief Public Health Officer of the Public Health Agency of Canada

Reducing Gaps in Health: A Focus on Socio-Economic Status in Urban Canada (2008)
Canadian Population Health Initiative of the Canadian Institute for Health Information

The social determinants of health by province/territory

Non-Medical Determinants of Health Data tables, maps and fact sheets, Statistics Canada

International data on the social determinants of health

Atlases of social inequalities World Health Organization – Europe

Strategies to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Canadian strategies

A Healthy, Productive Canada: A Determinant of Health Approach (2009)
The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology Final Report of Senate Subcommittee on Population Health

Canadian Reference Group on Social Determinants of Health (2011)
Background paper from Canadian Reference Group on Social Determinants of Health

Canada’s Response to WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Public Health Agency of Canada

Provincial/territorial/regional approaches strategies

British Columbia
Towards A Population Health Promotion Approach – A Framework and Recommendations for Action
(2006) Framework for Vancouver Coastal Health

Ontario
Social Inequities in Health and the Sudbury & District Health Unit – Building Our Path for the Next 10 Years (2010) Sudbury and District Health Unit

Quebec
Social Inequalities in Health in Montreal: 2011 Report of the Director of Public Health

Saskatchewan
Healthier Places to Live, Work and Play – A Population Health Promotion Strategy for Saskatchewan

Health Disparity in Saskatoon: analysis to intervention (2008)

International strategies

Norway
National strategy to reduce social inequalities in health (2006-2007) Finland.. National Action Plan To Reduce Health Inequalities 2008–2011