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The mission of the OneHealth Working Group is to integrate all health domains into one discipline worldwide.

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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

The Obama Presidency: what may happen in terms of health policies?

Sat, 2009-03-21 08:07 — admin

The Obama presidency: what may happen, what needs to happen in health policies in the USA

Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009;63:265-266; doi:10.1136/jech.2008.084822
April 2009 (Volume 63, Number 4).

Website: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/63/4/265

“……Expectations are high for the Obama presidency. People worked hard on his campaign, more because of his perceived integrity than his platforms (which were not well defined). Is it realistic to expect Obama to make a real difference?

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?

Reducing Health Inequities: Successful Strategies?

Mon, 2009-03-16 17:30 — admin

Reducing Health Inequalities
What Do We Really Know About Successful Strategies?

8–9 May 2009 School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Website: http://www.hertie-school.org/binaries/addon/1085_rhi.pdf

From the Global AIDS Response towards Global Health?

Mon, 2009-03-16 12:52 — admin

High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems
A discussion paper For the Hélène de Beir foundation and the International Civil Society Support group
Written by Gorik Ooms - January 2009

Available online as PDF file [47p.] at:
http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/pdf/IHP%20Update%2013/Taskforce/taskforce/090101_Ooms_Global_Health_Discussion_Paper%20(2).pdf

Health Inequalities

Mon, 2009-03-16 12:49 — admin

Third Report of Session 2008-09 Volume 1
House of Commons Health Committee
15 March 2009

Available online PDF [143p.] at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmhealth/286/286.pdf

HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Fri, 2009-03-13 13:06 — admin

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE:
HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Background Paper prepared by World Bank Staff for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors Meeting, Horsham, United Kingdom on March 13-14, 2009

Available online PDF [21p.] at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/swimmingagainstthetide-march2009.pdf

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.

For more information:

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

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision

Fri, 2009-03-13 10:41 — admin

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Population Division, March 2009

The official United Nations estimations and projections of population for all countries of the world, covering the period 1950-2050.

Press release: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/pressrelease.pdf

Data Online : http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp

Selected Tables: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/wpp2008_text_tables.pdf

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