Health Equity: 09/24/12

Monday, September 24, 2012

[EQ] WHO Global Health Expenditure Atlas

WHO Global Health Expenditure Atlas

Department of Health Systems Financing -Health Systems Services

World Health Organization WHO – 2012

Available online PDF file - 6.56MB [224p.] at: http://bit.ly/TqnDBt

“….The global health expenditure database that WHO has maintained for the past ten years, provides internationally comparable numbers on national health expenditures. WHO updates the data annually, taking, adjusting and estimating the numbers based on publicly available reports (national health account reports, reports from the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, National Statistics Offices, public expenditure information and reports from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, etc).

The estimates are sent out to the Ministries of Health for validation prior to publication but users are advised that country data may still differ in terms of definitions, data collection methods, population coverage and estimation methods used This database is the source for the health expenditure tables in the World Health Statistics Report and the WHO Global Health Observatory….”

Contents

Foreword

Factsheet

Policy highlights

Health expenditures and universal coverage

Country profile by region 2010

WHO African Region

WHO Region of the Americas

WHO South-East Asia Region

WHO European Region

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

WHO Western Pacific Region

World Health Statistics 2012 tables

Technical documentation

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[EQ] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Inequalities in Health - IJERPH

Call for Papers: Special Issue
"Inequalities in Health" - IJERPH (ISSN 1660-4601)

The Special Issue will be published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health IJERPH ISSN 1660-4601

Now open to receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Inequalities in Health

Website http://bit.ly/Rc7BaJ - Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2013

“…..It has been suggested that health is determined by socioeconomic factors and that socioeconomic inequality has to be reduced in order to lessen socioeconomic inequalities in health. There are also income and education policies etc. which could impact on socioeconomic factors and thus socioeconomic health inequalities.

Still, however, little is still known on exactly how such policies will impact on the socioeconomic health inequalities as the causal mechanisms underlying socioeconomic disparities in health are complex and controversial, and the causes may be different across population groups and over the lifecycle. Policies aimed at reducing the socioeconomic inequalities in health may therefore easily be ineffective, inconsistent and even counterproductive.

This Issue welcomes new and innovative methods to measure, monitor and explain changes in socioeconomic health disparities over time including modeling effect of economic policies. Manuscripts which shed light on the causal effects of socioeconomic factors on health are particularly welcome….” Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Guest Editor

This Special Issue will be fully open access. We encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the Editorial Office at ijerph@mdpi.com

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601) is an online, open access journal in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. IJERPH is covered by leading indexing services, including PubMed (Medline) and the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). Full-text articles are also available through PubMed Central. The most recent Impact Factor for the year 2011 is 1.605.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at: ijerph@mdpi.com

Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Gerdtham - Department of Clinical Sciences - Department of Economics

Lund University - P.O. Box 7082 - S-220 07 Lund – Sweden E-Mail: ulf.gerdtham@nek.lu.se

Wanda Gruetter - MDPI AG Kandererstrasse 25 CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland

Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 E-Mail: gruetter@mdpi.com

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[EQ] Call for expression of interest to lead, manage and host the TropIKA.net initiative

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CALL FOR APPLICATION HOSTING AND MANAGING THE TropIKA.net INITIATIVE

The WHO Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) will transition out the managerial responsibility of the TropIKA.net initiative

Expressions of interest are invited from institutions in low and middle income countries to assume the responsibility for the leadership, management and hosting of the TropIKA.net initiative.

The selected institution will be expected to:

1. Lead, manage and host the TropIKA.net initiative;

2. Establish and coordinate a partnership with research institutions in low and middle income countries (LMIC) to run TropIKA.net;

3. Promote and raise funds for the sustainability of TropIKA.net.

More information about this call for application at: http://bit.ly/OPe4tI

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested candidate institutions are invited to send a proposal and required documentation by 30 October 2012 via email to: certaine@who.int

The email subject line must include "TropIKA.net partnership [institution name]".

The proposal should include:

1. Full name of the institution and the main contact person for this project (to be designated project coordinator), with full contact details.

2. A description of the institution mandate, structure, missions, collaborations and infrastructure (see the earlier section on selection criteria).

3. An outline of the institution's experience in running knowledge management projects, listing recent initiatives in this area.

4. A leadership and management plan for TropIKA.net describing:

a. How TropIKA.net would fit with the mission of the institution

b. How TropIKA.net partnership will become sustainable after devolution by WHO

5. Brief CV of project coordinator and staff involved.

6. Budget for an initial 12 month period (in US dollars).

7. Letter of support from the head of the institution.

A copy of the application should also be sent to the WHO Representative's Office in the applicant's home country for their information and records.

WHO/KMS will acknowledge receipt of applications by email within 2 weeks. An acknowledgement of receipt does not imply that the application is eligible for review. A committee of WHO/KMS and TDR appointed experts will review the eligible applications and recommend the final selection of applicants to WHO.
The results will be announced in December 2012.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION 30 OCTOBER 2012

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[EQ] Health Equity webinars - Part 1. Promoting Action on Equity Issues: A Knowledge-To-Action Part 2. Health Equity Impact Assessment Tool

The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) and the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) are jointly hosting two webinars featuring popular health equity tools.

Part 1 - Promoting Action on Equity Issues: A Knowledge-To-Action Handbook

October 10, 2012 (1 PM EDT)

Developed by Bowen, Botting & Roy (2011), this tool provides a framework and worksheets that can be used to develop an equity-focused knowledge translation strategy. For more information and to register click here: http://bit.ly/QiX3nk

Part 2 - Health Equity Impact Assessment Tool

October 17, 2012 (1 PM EDT)

Developed by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) in partnership with Public Health Ontario, Public Health Units and the MOHLTC’s Public Health Division, this tool can help decision-makers to consider equity issues in planning decisions. For more information and to register click here: http://bit.ly/QXfosR

Interested in other Health Equity Tools? Registry of Methods and Tools!

NCCMT has a small, but growing collection of knowledge translation tools that have a health equity focus. Click here to review these resources: http://bit.ly/TpUNkE

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Le Centre de collaboration nationale des méthodes et outils (CCNMO) et le Centre de collaboration nationale des déterminants de la santé (CCNDS) s’associent pour organiser, au mois d’octobre, deux webinaires sur des outils d’équité en matière de santé!

1re partie - Promoting Action on Equity Issues : A Knowledge-To-Action Handbook

10 octobre 2012 (13 h, HAE)

Mis au point par Bowen, Botting et Roy (2011), cet outil procure un cadre et des feuilles de travail pouvant servir à élaborer une stratégie d’application des connaissances axée sur l’équité.

Afin d’en savoir plus et de vous inscrire, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/OaNxXJ

2e partie – outil d’évaluation de l’impact sur l’équité en matière de santé

17 octobre 2012 (13 h, HAE)

Créé par le ministère de la Santé et des Soins de longue durée (MSSLD), en partenariat avec Santé publique Ontario, les bureaux de santé et la Division de la santé publique du MSSLD, cet outil peut aider les décideurs à tenir compte des questions d’équité lorsqu’il s’agit de planifier. Afin d’en savoir plus et de vous inscrire, cliquez ici : http://bit.ly/Po5NKf

D’autres outils d’équité en matière de santé vous intéressent?

Ce dernier possède une collection modeste, mais croissante, d’outils d’application des connaissances qui sont axés sur l’équité en matière de santé.

Cliquez ici pour examiner ces ressources : http://bit.ly/Sq1Fgn

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