Tune in Thursday July 29 at 2 pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time for a webinar presented by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation titled “A new way to talk about the social determinants of health”.
For more information and to register go here.
Obama and Health Equity: So Close, Yet So Far
A couple of weeks ago, Obama was featured on the front page of the New York Times, laughing in an Iowa bookstore while holding up a copy of Mitt Romney’s book, ‘No Apology’ and Karl Rove’s book, ‘Courage and Consequence’. On tour celebrating the passage of health care reform legislation, he joked that’d he’d wait [...]
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RWJF Webinar: A new way to talk about the SDOH
Health Inequalities
Another Reason Why the Call to Action on Health Equity Remains Unanswered in the US
In May 2009, the World Health Assembly called on national governments to politically commit to tackle health inequities and to embrace the principles outlined in the final report of World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDOH).
In my last post, Healthy Policies looked at a recent Lancet debate over who owns [...]
Health Inequalities
Where is the US Commission on Health Equity?
In a quiet debate published by The Lancet, American public health researchers dispute “who owns health inequalities” in the US, and what health-care reform legislation means for the reduction of these inequalities. But are these researchers missing the proverbial forest for the trees?
The conversation begins with a piece by Constance Nathanson (2010) which asserts, among [...]
Round Up
Healthy Policies Round-up
Building Healthy Policies: From across the web and world, the latest in research, news, events, and blogging.
Income Inequality
Surprising Side Effect of HCR: Economic Equality
Now that US health care reform has finally passed, everyone is scrambling to decipher what it actually means for America’s future. Healthy Policies has been pretty quiet on the HCR front. This is because while the passage of this bill will definitely provide more people with access to health care, the impact HCR will have [...]
Health Inequalities
5 Health Equity Blogs You Should Know About
These blogs consistently address health equity issues while directing attention to upstream, macro-level determinants of health:
Equality Trust
Economic Governance for Health
The Equity Channel
Croakey
Health Impact Assessment Blog
Know of any others?
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Structural Determinants of Health
Twittering for Health: a #SDOH Hashtag Proposal
Despite my recent entrance into the world of blogging, I’m already convinced of the immense power that hides quietly behind those seemingly indifferent ‘publish’ buttons. In partnership with social media tools, we have at our fingertips the ability to spread ideas and inspire social action like never before.
A #SDOH hashtag can help to highlight and [...]
Evidence
The Great Divide:Health Inequality Research in the UK and the US
Two major health inequality reports were recently released, one in the UK and the other in the US. This is the final post in a series which seeks to better understand the health perspective of these reports. Understanding variations in how health inequality research is pursued is important because health perspectives can undermine attention to the broader determinants of health inequalities and hinder the development of healthy public policies. While the true policy implications of the reports remain to be seen, the difference in health perspectives of the two reports is astounding.
Round Up
Healthy Policies Round-Up
Building Healthy Policies: From across the web and world, the latest in research, news, events, and blogging.
