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Capitalism Beyond the Crisis

Tue, 2009-05-05 16:19 — admin

Amartya Sen, is Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
His most recent book is Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. (March 2009)

The New York Review of Books - Volume 56, Number 5 · March 26, 2009

Available online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22490

Pandemic Influenza Planning in the United States from a Health Disparities Perspective

Tue, 2009-05-05 16:16 — admin

Philip Blumenshine,*1 Arthur Reingold,† Susan Egerter,‡ Robin Mockenhaupt,§ Paula Braveman,‡ and James Marks§

*Weill/Cornell Medical College, Ithaca, New York, USA; †University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; ‡University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; and §Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
EID Journal Home > Volume 14, Number 5–May 2008
CDC Journal Emerging Infectious Disease

Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/14/5/709.htm

Burmese junta still shuns survivors of the cyclone

Sat, 2009-05-02 19:02 — admin

By Andrew Buncombe, Asia correspondent
Saturday, 2 May 2009

On the anniversary of the Burmese cyclone, more than a hundred thousand survivors are still living in makeshift shelters hopelessly inadequate to the monsoon rains that will soon engulf the country.

But despite the population's desperate need, the ruling junta has now tightened regulations to make it harder for aid workers to get visas.

Eleventh Futures Forum on the ethical governance of pandemic influenza preparedness

Fri, 2009-05-01 13:11 — admin

2008, iv + 28 pages ISBN 978 92 890 7186 4
WHO Regional Office for Europe- Copenhagen, Denmark

Available online PDF [36p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91310.pdf

“…..The Eleventh Futures Forum reviewed some countries’ experience in applying ethical governance approaches to a major contemporary policy concern for WHO and its Member States: preparedness for an influenza pandemic. The topic provided a concrete policy-making example that participants could use to discuss broader and more generic ethical governance approaches in European health systems.

Why is Mexico's Death Toll So High for 2009 H1N1 ("Swine Flu")?

Fri, 2009-05-01 12:53 — admin

First Flu Death Provides Clues to Mexico Toll

Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

By MARC LACEY and ELISABETH MALKIN
Published: April 30, 2009

OAXACA, Mexico — Adela María Gutiérrez fell ill in the beginning of April with what she thought was a bad cold. She tried aspirin and antibiotics, bed rest and moist towels, but nothing brought down her soaring fever, reduced her aches and pains, or boosted her energy level.

UK Equity Bill

Wed, 2009-04-29 17:07 — admin

UK Government Equalities Office (GEO)

On Friday 24th April 2009 the Equality Bill was introduced in the House of Commons and it was published on Monday 27th April.
Please see below for more information, documents and relevant downloads:
· The Equality Bill and Explanatory Notes (Links to external site.)
· A Fairer Future- The Equality Bill and other action to make equality a reality
· Impact Assessment
· Equality Impact Assessment
· Easy Read
· Assessing the Impact of a Multiple Discrimination Provision

Equality Bill 2008-09

MDG's Failing Poor Children: Case for Equity-adjusted Measures

Wed, 2009-04-29 12:52 — admin

The Millennium Development Goals Fail Poor Children: The Case for Equity-Adjusted Measures

Daniel D. Reidpath1*, Chantal M. Morel2, Jeffrey W. Mecaskey3, Pascale Allotey1
1 Centre for Public Health Research, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom,
2 LSE Health, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom,
3 Save the Children UK, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 6(4): e1000062. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000062 - April 28, 2009

Available online at: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000062

Mexico City restricts thousands of public places over swine flu

Tue, 2009-04-28 18:14 — admin

Many governments around the world have begun to impose restrictions in hopes of limiting the spread of Swine Flu. A CNN story gives an update of cases and focuses on Mexico's new enforcement of restaurant closures and contemplation of transportation restrictions.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/swine.flu/index.html

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- About 35,000 public venues in Mexico City were shut down or told to serve only takeout meals Tuesday as officials tried to contain a deadly swine flu outbreak.

Health Policies and Plans in Latin America and the Caribbean

Tue, 2009-04-28 16:23 — admin

Relevantamiento de Planes y Políticas Nacionales de Salud:
Resultados e Implicaciones

Managing evidence-based knowledge

Tue, 2009-04-28 12:32 — admin

Managing evidence-based knowledge:
the need for reliable, relevant and readable resources

Sharon Straus is with the LiKaShing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto,
R. Bryan Haynes is with the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. Canada
Canadian Medical Association CMAJ • April 28, 2009; 180 (9). doi:10.1503/cmaj.081697

Available online at: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/180/9/942

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