Wednesday, April 8, 2009

[EQ] Recordings: Health in times of global economic crisis - Oslo, Norway, 1-2 April 2009

Global economic crisis

 

Oslo, Norway, 1-2 April 2009


The global economic downturn occurs as the world is also confronted with the consequences of major demographic changes and global environmental and energy problems. The crisis therefore represents a major threat for both health and health and social protection systems.

 

            Link to recordings: http://www.smartcom.no/who/who_eng_001.html

 

Links to materials, conference programme and the webcast can be found at

url: http://www.euro.who.int/healthsystems/econcrisis/20090316_1

 

Objectives: 

 

- to review the situation in the WHO European Region by identifying the main risks for health and health systems and the main opportunities for action;

- to discuss policy options for responding to the negative impacts of the economic crisis on health systems and
  health outcomes in low-, middle- and high-income Member States in the European Region;

- to identify health- and health systems- related measures that could be used in the short and medium terms
  to counter the economic downturn and, in the longer term, to help address (some) structural issues confronting our societies.

 

 

 

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

 

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and opening

Objectives and scope of the meeting

Mr Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, Minister of Health and Care Services

Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

Message from the WHO Director-general Dr Margaret Chan

 

Session 1: Impact of the economic downturn on health systems and health outcomes in the Member States in the WHO European Region

The ongoing financial and economic crisis: main effects on society and on health systems

Chair: Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

Opening speech by Mr Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Keynote speakers:

Prof Alan Maynard, Professor of Health Economics, University of York

Prof Guillem López-Casasnovas, Professor in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

and Member of the Board of the Bank of Spain

Prof Tomica Milosavljevic, Minister of Health of Serbia

 

Chair: Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Keynote speaker:

Prof Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health and MRC

Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College

London, United Kingdom

 

Thursday, 2 April 2009

 

Session 2: Strengthening health and health systems in the context of the crisis

The Millennium Development Goals in the light of the ongoing economic crisis

Message from Mr Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway

Financial and human resource aspects of the crisis; effects on the migration of health personnel

Chair: Prof Elias Mossialos, Director, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

 

Keynote speakers:

Mr Philippe Douste-Blazy, Chair of the Executive Board of UNITAID

Mrs Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative and Co-chair, Health Workers Global Policy Advisory Council

09:50-10:30 Panel with representatives of Member States

10:30-11:00 Debate and conclusions moderated by Prof Elias Mossialos

11:30-11:50 Protecting public health through strengthened health systems in the European Region

Chair: Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

 

Keynote speaker:

Prof Martin McKee, Research Director, European Centre on Health of Societies in

Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

 

Session 3: Strategies to overcome health consequences of crisis

14:15-14:35 Chair: Dr Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe

 

Keynote speaker:

Mr Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, Minister of Health and Care Services

14:35-15:20 Panel with partners’ representatives

15:20-16:00 Recommendations of the meeting. Final remarks and closure

Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

 

 

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[EQ] A World of Science in the Developing World

A World of Science in the Developing World

Website: http://www.nature.com/nature/supplements/collections/npgpublications/twas/index.html

"….The public and policy-makers are increasingly looking to the scientific community to address critical global problems.

Finding solutions will require the collective insights and experience of scientists, policy-makers, industry and non-governmental groups. A World of Science in the Developing World reflects the expertise of members and associates of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, and coincides with its twenty-fifth anniversary…"

Table of contents  Free access

First Words  
Jacob Palis is president of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, in Trieste, Italy. He also serves as president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world • TriesteItaly
Full Text | PDF

From Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature publications . doi:10.1038/twas08.4b Full Text | PDF

Editor's Notes Ehsan Masood and Daniel Schaffer  5 . doi:10.1038/twas08.5a Full Text | PDF

Features

Worlds Apart Together  Mohamed Hassan , 6-8 . doi:10.1038/twas08.6a Full Text | PDF

Losing Faculties Phillip Griffiths - , 9-11 . doi:10.1038/twas08.9a Full Text | PDF

Caution: Men at Work  Çiğdem KağitÇibaşi, , 12 . doi:10.1038/twas08.12a Full Text | PDF

Learn to Earn  Calestous Juma, , 15-17 . doi:10.1038/twas08.15a Full Text | PDF

Joining the Fast Lane  Ismail Serageldin, , 18-20 . doi:10.1038/twas08.18a Full Text | PDF

Pressure Points

Food Fault Lines  Hans Herren, , 21 . doi:10.1038/twas08.21a Full Text | PDF

Home Sickness  Thomas G. Egwang, , 22-23 . doi:10.1038/twas08.22a Full Text | PDF

Cold Shower  Mohamed El-Ashry , 24 . doi:10.1038/twas08.24a Full Text | PDF

People Power  Dilip Ahuja , 25 . doi:10.1038/twas08.25a Full Text | PDF

Pumping Renewables  Josè Goldemberg , 26-27 . doi:10.1038/twas08.26a Full Text | PDF

Warming Signs Mohan Munasinghe , 28-29 . doi:10.1038/twas08.28a Full Text | PDF

Let Deserts Be Farouk El-Baz , 30 . doi:10.1038/twas08.30ª Full Text | PDF

Lost Diversity Abdul H. Zakri , 31 . doi:10.1038/twas08.31ª Full Text | PDF

Urban Future  Hans van Ginkel , 32-33 . doi:10.1038/twas08.32a Full Text | PDF

The Science of Influence  Raghunath Mashelkar , 34 . doi:10.1038/twas08.34a Full Text | PDF

Frontiers

Space Landings Turner Isoun , 35 . doi:10.1038/twas08.35a Full Text | PDF

Nano Rising Bai Chunli Full Text | PDF

Physics Now  Reza Mansouri Full Text | PDF

Water Woes  Akissa Bahri Full Text | PDF

Bio-Revolution  Indira Nath Full Text | PDF

Back to Nature  Iqbal Choudhary Full Text | PDF

Do the Maths  Lê Dũng Tráng Full Text | PDF

A Better Pill  María G. Guzmàn Full Text | PDF

Creative Accounting  Partha Dasgupta , Full Text | PDF

End Note- Basics Matter  C. N. R. Rao Full Text | PDF

Viewpoints

Money counts but merit and freedom count even more  Ahmed Zewail Full Text | PDF

More than good enough to do world-class research  Zohra Ben Lakhdar-Akrout Full Text | PDF

Air pollution is a global problem with local solutions  Mario Molina Full Text | PDF

It is the knowledge (not digital) divide that matters  Abdul Waheed Khan Full Text | PDF

Science is helping Rwanda give up the ghosts of the past  Romain Murenzi Full Text | PDF

The green revolution is slowing. What next?  Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella , 29 . doi:10.1038/twas08.29ª Full Text | PDF

International collaboration is part of science's DNA  Martin Rees , 31 . doi:10.1038/twas08.31b Full Text | PDF

Chemistry needs a new formula for success  Atta-ur-Rahman , 33 . doi:10.1038/twas08.33a Full Text | PDF

Why poor countries need nuclear research capacity  Ana Mariá Cetto , 37 . doi:10.1038/twas08.37ª Full Text | PDF

What others can — and cannot — learn from China  Lu Yongxiang , 38 . doi:10.1038/twas08.38b Full Text | PDF

Research is no luxury  Berit Olsson, 42 . doi:10.1038/twas08.42b Full Text | PDF

 

 

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[EQ] How will the financial crisis affect health?

How will the financial crisis affect health?

 

M G Marmot, director of the International Institute for Society and Health, Ruth Bell, senior research fellow

1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London

BMJ Published 1 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1314

Global recession is likely to damage our health as well as our wealth, but it also offers an opportunity to build a more equitable economic model
as Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell explain in light of the G20 summit

 

Abstract:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/apr01_3/b1314?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=marmot&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

 

“…..The financial crisis intrudes daily from the newspapers. The breakfast table is littered with quantitative easing and credit-default swaps, stimulus packages, and bank bailouts. But is there a link between the financial crisis dominating the front page and the health stories on the inside?

 

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health certainly believed so. Its starting point was that the economic and social features of society are closely linked to the distribution of health within and between countries.1 The social determinants of health are the circumstances of daily life—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—and the structural drivers of those conditions (unfair distribution of power, money, and resources). Both the conditions of daily life and the structural drivers will be influenced by the financial crisis…..”

 

Commentary: Look after the pennies

 

Andrew Jack, pharmaceuticals correspondent

1 Financial Times, London

Published 1 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1380

 

……The economic crisis means that rather than ask for more money for health, we are going to have to be more careful how we spend it…..

 

BMJ:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/apr01_3/b1380?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=marmot&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

 

“……As international political leaders left London’s G20 meeting last week, their concluding communique1 offered a few bright spots for the health of the world’s poorest, but only an indirect nod to Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell’s well timed call to highlight the dangers of the global economic crisis on health. With the global economy contracting sharply, there will certainly be an overall negative impact on health, to which the latest pledge of a fresh $1.1 trillion in lending offers only a little palliative care. Government, consumer, and philanthropic spending alike are under pressure; unemployment is rising, as is work related stress for those still with jobs (including in the health sector); and remittances are down from migrant workers, a vital source of non-official aid to those on lower incomes….”

 

 

 

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