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

By Patrick Oppmann
CNN

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Predicting the path of a swine flu outbreak is next to impossible, public health officials say. But Dr. Ira Longini has spent more than three decades trying to do just that.

Dr. Ira Longini studies simulations of hypothetical influenzas and how they would spread. And Longini says the apparent new strain of swine flu appears to be here to stay. "We are probably going to have to live with this virus for some time," he told CNN.

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

BARBARA STARFIELD, LEIYU SHI, and JAMES MACINKO
Johns Hopkins University; New York University
The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 3, 2005 (pp. 457–502)

Available online PDF [46p.] at: http://www.jhsph.edu/pcpc/Publications_PDFs/2005_MQ_Starfield.pdf

Hello,

We are writing you today in light of the unusual strain of swine influenza which has sickened at least seven people in the U.S. The CDC said that the virus is a new mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans. The World Health Organization said it was concerned about what it called 800 "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, and also about a confirmed outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in the United States. The Reuters story on this is copied below.

http://www.techleader.co.za/stevevosloo/2009/02/27/five-amazing-mobile-projects/

At the Web4Dev conference in New York I met with the founders, inventors and creators of some pretty amazing mobile-for-development projects. Below are my top five with some thoughts on how they could be used for education.

Ushahidi

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Open Collaboration Experiment around Emergency Alerts, Disasters, Market Recalls, and More...

We set up two open collaboration spaces around up-to-date notifications and alerts on the following:

- Emergency Preparedness & Response alerts, Recent Outbreaks and Incidents, Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA), and Public Service Announcements for Hurricanes from US CDC

- Recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts from the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/climate_change

What LEGO and Mobile Solutions Have in Common
There has long been discussions of using the current mobile app solutions to let end-users pick and choose between available services. Something like LEGO, where you pick and choose the right pieces that work for your particular need. A real toolbox of apps that actually work together, and can be connected easily by anyone, without the need of deep technological background.

On Apr 17, 2009, at 4:17 PM, david hastings wrote:

Dear Khun Dr. Surin,

I hope that, despite recent incidents, this message finds you in the best of health and spirits. I appreciate that you may be focused on next steps after these recent events. Thus I have copied Khun Dr. Termsak Chalermpalanupap on this message. Perhaps he can revisit the issue with you at an appropriate time, if you/he consider it worthwhile.

This message is intended to be upbeat, imagining a possible win-win by ASEAN (and perhaps yourself?) and ASEAN Members in an area which apparently interests you:

Date:8 April 2009
Source(s):Corporate Social Responsibility Asia (CSR Asia)

Helen Roeth reports that according to the Swiss Reinsurance Company Sigma report, catastrophes and man-made disasters caused 240,500 deaths in 2008, with economic losses up to 269 billion dollars - and numbers are expected to increase due to climate change factors and economic severity of catastrophes.