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21 mai 2010
Exploring Urban Environments and Inequalities in Health
In 2008, the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) released a report that examined the links between socio-economic status and health in urban Canada. As a follow-up to that report, CPHI prepared a data brief for each of Canada’s 33 CMAs, in addition to an overarching data brief that features data on all 33 CMAs combined. In these data briefs, health service utilization/hospitalization and self-reported health data is split into five socio-economic status groups and is presented by the material and social components of the INSPQ Deprivation Index separately, as well as by the two components combined. The data presented in the data briefs was selected on the basis of its use in the Reducing Gaps in Health report and its documented relationship with the urban environment as revealed by a review of the literature.
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21 mai 2010
First National Male Health Policy: a new chapter in mens health
The Australian Department of Health and Ageing has released the first National Male Health Policy. The Policy provides a clear framework for the growing number of organisations promoting mens health in Australia to provide a more coordinated response to mens health issues. The Policy provides a framework for improving the health of all males and achieving equal health outcomes for population groups of males at risk of poor health.
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21 mai 2010
The World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015
The World Bank released a new five-year plan to help poor countries reduce their high fertility rates and prevent the widespread deaths of their mothers and children. In endorsing its Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015, the Bank warned that family planning and other reproductive health programs that are vital to poor women had fallen off the development radars of many low-income countries, donor governments, and aid agencies. Under its new health action plan, the Bank will help 58 countries with high maternal death and fertility rates, which have remained stubbornly high for some years, improve their reproductive health systems in the following ways: More Contraception, More Frequent Antenatal Visits, Spread Preventive Knowledge, Train New Health Workers.
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21 mai 2010
Who needs what from a national health research system: lessons from reforms to the English Department of Health's R&D system
Health research systems consist of diverse groups who have some role in health research, but the boundaries around such a system are not clear-cut. To explore what various stakeholders need authors reviewed the literature including that on the history of English health R&D reforms, and also applied some relevant conceptual frameworks. They conclude that the latest health R&D strategy in England builds on recent progress and tackles acknowledged weaknesses. The strategy goes a considerable way to identifying and more effectively meeting the needs of key groups such as medical academics, patients and industry, and has been remarkably successful in increasing the funding for health research.
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7 mai 2010
Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts
Improving the health of Canadians requires we think about health and its determinants in a more sophisticated manner than has been the case to date. Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts considers 14 social determinants of health. The publication outlines why they are important; how Canada is doing in addressing them; and what can be done to improve their quality. The purpose of the document is to provide promote greater awareness of the social determinants of health and the development and implementation of public policies that improve their quality.
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