HM Government, UK - February 2009

Available online at PDF [35p.] at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_095296

The UK Government has recently agreed the first cross-Government Institutional Strategy (IS) with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The overall aim of the strategy is to set out how the UK and WHO will work together, and to provide a basis for multi-year (2008-2013) core funding relationship with WHO.

Agreement on health foreign policy objectives

Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) and Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Federal Office of Public Health FOPH Switzerland

PDF [20p.] available online at:
http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/index.html?lang=en&download=M3wBPgDB/8ull6Du36WenojQ1NTTjaXZnqWfVp3Uhmfhnapmmc7Zi6rZnqCkkIZ2fHh/bKbXrZ6lhuDZz8mMps2gpKfo

Website: http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/03338/index.html?lang=en

What should we be doing with the new homeless and how fast could the edge cities in the United States grow?

March 11, 2009, 3:19 PM
Sacramento and Its Riverside Tent City
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Renee Hadley covered her bicycles with a tarp outside her tent on Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif.
A tent city is burgeoning in Sacramento, Calif., prompting local officials to consider whether such an encampment should be made permanent, with plumbing and all.

Moran M, Guzman J, Ropars AL, McDonald A, Jameson N, et al. (2009)
PLoS Medicine - February 2009 | Volume 6 | Issue 2 | e1000030

Available online at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000030

Obes Rev. 2009 Jan 15 [Ahead of print].
Cinar AB, Murtomaa H.
Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki

Available online:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121640472/PDFSTART

Final Report Stage 2 Primary Health Care Research Impact project
- PHC RIS Research team
Libby Kalucy, Eleanor Jackson Bowers, Ellen McIntyre, Ann-Louise Hordacre, Richard Reed,
Australia: Primary Health Care Research & Information Service - February 2009

Available online as PDF file [54p.] at:
http://www.phcris.org.au/phplib/filedownload.php?file=/elib/lib/downloaded_files/publications/pdfs/phcris_pub_8108.pdf

Priority setting: what constitutes success?
A conceptual framework for successful priority setting

Shannon L Sibbald1,2*, Peter A. Singer3, Ross Upshur2,4, Douglas K Martin1,2
1 Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada
3 The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto, Canada
4Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
BMC Health Services Research – March 9, 2009 -- 9:43 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-43

Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness:
Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement: Workshop Summary

Rapporteurs: Samantha Chao, Karen Anderson, and Lyla Hernandez
Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation;
Roundtable on Health Disparities; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Institute of Medicine, 2009

Available online at; http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12502

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vermont governor Howard Dean was under consideration by the Obama administration for U.S. surgeon general, CNN reported on Friday, but a source said he was not interested in the post.

Dean, a practicing physician before he entered politics, recently wrapped up a four-year term as Democratic Party chairman, has been a supporter of health reform.

CNN said he had privately made clear that he is interested in the job. But a source close to Dean told Reuters he was not.

Background Report Prepared for: Environmental Department
United Nations Institute for Training and Research

Manjula Amerasinghe, Leanne Farrell, SheeShee Jin, Nah-yoon Shin, Kristen Stelljes
Department of Urban Studies and Planning - Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT - 2008

Executive Summary [78p.] at: http://web.mit.edu/jcarmin/www/carmin/EnablingEJ.pdf

“…American People Say Health Care System is Broken, Highlight Need for Action This Year on Health Reform..”

March 5, 2009 Press release: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/03/20090305a.html

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a report, Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care Community Discussions. The report summarizes comments from Americans who hosted and participated in Health Care Community Discussions across the country and highlights the need for immediate action to reform health care.