Health Equity: 09/21/12

Friday, September 21, 2012

[EQ] Working Documents: 28th Pan American Sanitary Conference - Progress report on Social Determinants of Health

28th Pan American Sanitary Conference,
64th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas

Washington, D.C., 17-21 September 2012

The Conference is the supreme governing authority of the Organization and meets every five years to determine its general policies.
The Conference also serves as a forum for the interchange of information and ideas relating to the prevention of disease; the preservation, promotion and restoration of mental and physical health; and the advancement of sociomedical measures and facilities for the prevention and treatment of physical and mental diseases in the Western Hemisphere.

Official Documents

- Quinquennial Report 2008-2012 of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau - Official Document 343

- Health in the Americas Scientific and Technical Publication No. 636 - CSP28/27

Working Documents

- Mid-term Evaluation of the Health Agenda for the Americas CSP28/8

- Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases CSP28/10

- Strategy and Plan of Action for Integrated Child Health CSP28/11

- Health Technology Assessment and Incorporation into Health Systems CSP28/12, Rev. 1

- Strategy and Plan of Action on Knowledge Management and Communications CSP28/13

- Coordination of International Humanitarian Assistance in Health in Case of Disasters CSP28/14

- Bioethics: Towards the Integration of Ethics in Health CSP28/15

- Expanded Textbook and Instructional Materials Program (PALTEX) CSP28/16

- Plan of Action for Maintaining Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) Elimination
in the Region of the Americas CSP28/17, Rev. 1

- Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources: International Basic Safety Standards CSP28/18, Rev. 1

- Regional Consultation on the Report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on
Research and Development: Financing and Coordination CSP28/19

Information Documents

- Report of the PAHO/WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research -CSP28/INF/3

- Progress Reports on Technical Matters:

(A) — Social Determinants of Health

(B) — Plan of Action for Implementing the Gender Equality Policy

(C) — R egional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition in Health and Development, 2006-2015: Mid-term Review

(D) —PAHO Regional Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS/STI, 2006-2015: Mid term Evaluation

(E) — Current Dengue Situation

(F) — Implementation of the International Health Regulations

(G) — Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health 2007-2015

(H) — Status of the Pan American Centers - CSP28/INF/4

Resolutions and Other Actions of Intergovernmental Organizations of Interest to PAHO:

(A) — Resolutions of the 65th World Health Assambly of Interest to PAHO

(B) — Forty-second Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States

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[EQ] Equity in Child Survival, Health, and Nutrition

Equity in Child Survival, Health, and Nutrition

The Lancet series - Published Sept 20, 2012

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

Executive summary

“……In a Comment, Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF, writes "For decades, many have believed that reaching the remote, the poorest and most-in-need children is a moral imperative ... however, it has often been considered by policymakers as too costly, time-consuming and difficult to pursue with the limited purses of international aid and public finance."

The Lancet's two-part Series presents an analysis by UNICEF to challenge this assumption. Although progress on child mortality and undernutrition has seen widening inequities, recent process and technological innovations have provided effective options to reach the most deprived populations. Increased coverage of cost-effective preventive and curative interventions has contributed to a decrease in child mortality of 35% and maternal mortality by 34% over the past two decades.

The first Series paper examines bottlenecks that prevent interventions from reaching poor people in low-income and middle-income countries, and subsequently identifies evidence-based strategies to overcome these issues.

The second Series paper builds on these recommendations by using a mathematical modelling approach to predict the effect and cost-effectiveness of maternal and child-health strategies. …”

Comments

A tipping point for child survival, health and nutrition

Anthony Lake

Niger's success in child survival: Viewpoint from the Minister of Health

Soumana Sanda

Articles

Countdown to 2015: changes in official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health in 2009-10, and assessment of progress since 2003

Justine Hsu, Catherine Pitt, Giulia Greco, Peter Berman, Anne Mills

Series Papers

Strategies to improve health coverage and narrow the equity gap in child survival, health, and nutrition

Mickey Chopra, Alyssa Sharkey, Nita Dalmiya, David Anthony, Nancy Binkin, on behalf of the UNICEF Equity in Child Survival, Health and Nutrition Analysis Team

The comparative cost-effectiveness of an equity-focused approach to child survival, health, and nutrition: a modelling approach

Carlos Carrera, Adeline Azrack, Genevieve Begkoyian, Jerome Pfaffmann, Eric Ribaira, Thomas O'Connell, Patricia Doughty, Kyaw Myint Aung, Lorena Prieto, Kumanan Rasanathan, Alyssa Sharkey, Mickey Chopra, Rudolf Knippenberg, on behalf of the UNICEF Equity in Child Survival, Health and Nutrition Analysis Team

ttp://www.publichealth.ualberta.ca/research/~/media/publichealth/Research/Research%20Publications/action_equity.pdf

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