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Thu, 2009-03-12 07:18 — admin

The mission of this Working Group is develop a Human Security Index that further enhances the Human Development Index to provide indicators that accurately measure societal (and eventually community) conditions that determine length of life, quality of life, and functional life capacity.

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Health Disparities and the U.S. Health System Reform

Sat, 2009-03-21 10:22 — admin

Action on Health Disparities in the United States
Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Michael G. Marmot, FRCP; Ruth Bell, PhD
International Institute for Society and Health and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England. Dr Marmot was chair of the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 2005-2008.
Dr Bell is a senior research fellow at University College London and was a member of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health Secretariat

Challenges in measuring changes in health and social indicators over time

Sat, 2009-03-21 08:09 — admin

Robert W Platt1, Jennifer Zeitlin2
1 Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and of Pediatrics, McGill University, Westmount, Canada
2 INSERM, UMR, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal Health and Women's and Children's Health, , Paris, France
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009 - April 2009 (Volume 63, Number 4).

Website: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/63/4/267

“……The paper by Mortensen et al1 raises important questions in the study of time trends in fetal growth and other exposures and outcomes.

The healthcare trap

Wed, 2009-03-18 07:19 — admin

Why do rich countries spend so much on health, when evidence shows it doesn't make much difference to life expectancy?

Richard Smith
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 June 2008 11.00 BST

As countries get richer they spend more and more on healthcare. A congressional report (pdf) recently showed that the US might be spending 50% of its gross domestic product on health by 2082.

Could this happen in Britain? Is it possible or desirable?

The healthcare trap

Wed, 2009-03-18 07:16 — admin

Why do rich countries spend so much on health, when evidence shows it doesn't make much difference to life expectancy?

Richard Smith
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 June 2008 11.00 BST

As countries get richer they spend more and more on healthcare. A congressional report (pdf) recently showed that the US might be spending 50% of its gross domestic product on health by 2082.

Could this happen in Britain? Is it possible or desirable?

SAISPHERE: Water: The New Reality (pdf version)

Fri, 2009-03-13 11:12 — admin

Below are a list of the articles in the new SAISPHERE focusing on the new understandings regarding global water supplies.

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http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/publications/saisphere/2008/index.htm

The World Is Dry (pdf version)
by Erik R. Peterson

Getting to the Bottom of Water Scarcity (pdf version)
by Pieter Bottelier

The Mediterranean: Byway or Barrier? (pdf version)
by Esther Brimmer

The Price of Power in the Mekong Delta (pdf version)
by Frederick Z. Brown

Grains of Gold: Water in Central Asia (pdf version)
by John Daly

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