Tuesday, June 5, 2012

[EQ] Wednesday: June 6, 2012 - Moving the Agenda of the Social Determinants of Health towards Rio+20

XVIII SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20
Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO

Moving the Agenda of the Social Determinants of Health towards Rio+20


Wednesday June 6th 2012 - In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish


Time: 12:00 am - 1:30 pm - EDT (Washington, DC USA) To check your time zone, see the World Clock

Website PAHO/WHO Rio+20 at:  http://bit.ly/oxoRdS

“….In this seminar Sir/Professor Michael Marmot, Director of the Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology, University College London (UCL) and former Chair of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health will present his work on the social determinants of health and discuss how this is related to the agenda of sustainable development.  An expert in his field, Sir/Professor Marmot will stimulate a lively discussion on health equity as it relates to the determinants of health and sustainable development reflecting on lessons learnt from the Commission’s work.

In an effort to address the economic and social pillars of sustainable development, Dr. Paulo Buss, Director of Global Health Center, FIOCRUZ Brazil and Brazil’s former representative of the WHO’s Executive Board, will address the Brazilian perspective on social determinants of health and sustainable development through his extensive expertise in public health. Playing an instrumental role in setting up Brazil’s National Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Dr Buss will also discuss the efforts that have been made at the national level, integrating the agenda of the social determinants of health with the agenda on sustainable development in preparation  for the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012…..”

Agenda

12:00:     Welcome Remarks - Jon Andrus, Deputy Director, PAHO/WHO.

               Moderator: Kira Fortune, Regional Advisor, Determinants of Health, PAHO/WHO

12:05      Moving the Agenda of the Social Determinants of Health towards Rio+20

Professor Sir Michael Marmot,
Director of the Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research, Professor in Epidemiology, University College London (UCL)

12:35      The Brazilian perspective on Rio+20 and its Link to the Global SDH Conference

              Paulo Buss, Director Global Health Center, FIOCRUZ Brazil

12:55      Comments:
Sofia-Leticia Morales, Senior Adviser and Team Coordinator for Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health PAHO/WHO

13:05      Questions & Answers

13:25      Concluding Remarks: Jose Romero Teruel, Acting Assistant Director, PAHO/WHO

 


How to participate

In person:
PAHO/WHO
525 23rd ST NW
Washington DC, 20037
Room 1017 – 12h to 13:30h Eastern Time (WDC)

Online: via Elluminate link:

- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE 

- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars

Related material:

Closing the gap: Policy into practice on social determinants of health Policy into Practice on Social Determinants of Health
Discussion Paper -Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights - WHO - September 2011
Available online as PDF [56p.] at: http://bit.ly/q67ren

Health in Brazil - towards sustainability and equity in health
The Lancet – 2011 Website http://bit.ly/iAayVm

Brazil: structuring cooperation for health
Paulo Buss The Lancet – website: http://bit.ly/Ljldvu

Policy Making With Health Equity at Its Heart
Michael G. Marmot, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London
JAMA. May 16 - 2012;307(19) Website: http://bit.ly/Lfz9pA

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20

For those who cannot follow the live seminar, we will have the recordings and presentations available at
PAHO Rio+20 Toolkit at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS

Health Promotion
No.17 Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health – SDOH

http://bit.ly/LH7Uo6

 

Recording link to Elluminate session: Pekka PusKa Ilona Kickbush http://bit.ly/NkBJgH

 

Air Pollution

No.16  Air Pollution
http://bit.ly/JhXHgJ

 

Food Security

No 15 Food Security
http://bit.ly/J6S46s  

 
Global Sustainable Development
No.14 Global Sustainable Development and Environmental Health- Joint Discussion with the US Institute of Medicine
http://bit.ly/M4zpwg

Sustainable Development Indicators
No.13  Health at the heart of Sustainable Development Indicators

http://bit.ly/IQGhgE

 

Economic – social aspects Non Communicable Diseases

No.12  Economic and social aspects of Non Communicable Diseases NCDs

http://bit.ly/IisLCg

Non Communicable Diseases 

No.11 Non Communicable Diseases and Sustainable Development

http://bit.ly/JGgnvr

Workers health

No.10 Green Economy /Green Jobs: Health Risks & Benefits
http://bit.ly/IhCwK2

Regional Experiences

No. 9 The Voice and Experience of the Caribbean Islands towards SD
http://bit.ly/HGvKCh

Road Safety  

No.  8 Road Safety and Public Transportation towards Sustainable Development:
an agenda for health for Rio+20
http://bit.ly/IS7rAH

Globalization

No. 7 Globalization and Health Equity towards Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/HJ0PTT

Civil Society

No. 6 The Voices of Civil Society - Creating the Healthy Future
http://bit.ly/HRsJyd

Working Environments
No. 5 Employment and working conditions for Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/ILtlHE

The Environment

No. 4 Amazon Region: Environment and Health in the Context of Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/IlMMmK

Climate Change

No. 3 Climate Change and health in the context of Rio+20
http://bit.ly/J7NLFJ

Water

No. 2 Water and Sanitation
http://bit.ly/HP7kGw

Sustainable Development

No. 1 Public Health Challenges
http://bit.ly/Iv3LWW

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2 comments:

Steve Salmony said...

If we agree to “think globally”, it becomes evident that riveting attention on GROWTH could be a grave mistake because we are denying how economic and population growth in the communities in which we live cannot continue as it has until now. Each village's resources are being dissipated, each town's environment degraded and every city's fitness as place for our children to inhabit is being threatened. To proclaim something like, 'the meat of any community plan for the future is, of course, growth' fails to acknowledge that many villages, towns and cities are already ‘built out’, and also ‘filled in’ with people. If the quality of life we enjoy now is to be maintained for the children, then limits on economic and population growth will have to be set. By so doing, we choose to “act locally" and sustainably.

More economic and population growth are no longer sustainable in many too many places on the surface of Earth because biological constraints and physical limitations are immutably imposed upon ever increasing human consumption, production and population activities of people in many communities where most of us reside. Inasmuch as the Earth is finite with frangible environs, there comes a point at which GROWTH is unsustainable. There is much work to done locally. But that effort cannot reasonably begin without sensibly limiting economic and population growth.

To quote another source, “We face a wide-open opportunity to break with the old ways of doing the town’s business…..” That is a true statement. But the necessary “break with the old ways” of continous economic and population growth is not what is occurring. There is a call for a break with the old ways, but the required changes in behavior are not what is being proposed as we plan for the future. What is being proposed and continues to occur is more of the same, old business-as-usual overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the very activities that appear to be growing unsustainbly. More business-as-usual could soon become patently unsustainable, both locally and globally. A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch. Perhaps necessary changes away from UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH and toward sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises are in the offing.

Think globally while there is still time and act locally before it is too late for human action to make any difference in the clear and presently dangerous course of unfolding human-induced ecological events, both in our planetary home and in our villages, towns and cities.

Steve Salmony said...

If we agree to “think globally”, it becomes evident that riveting attention on GROWTH could be a grave mistake because we are denying how economic and population growth in the communities in which we live cannot continue as it has until now. Each village's resources are being dissipated, each town's environment degraded and every city's fitness as place for our children to inhabit is being threatened. To proclaim something like, 'the meat of any community plan for the future is, of course, growth' fails to acknowledge that many villages, towns and cities are already ‘built out’, and also ‘filled in’ with people. If the quality of life we enjoy now is to be maintained for the children, then limits on economic and population growth will have to be set. By so doing, we choose to “act locally" and sustainably.

More economic and population growth are no longer sustainable in many too many places on the surface of Earth because biological constraints and physical limitations are immutably imposed upon ever increasing human consumption, production and population activities of people in many communities where most of us reside. Inasmuch as the Earth is finite with frangible environs, there comes a point at which GROWTH is unsustainable. There is much work to done locally. But that effort cannot reasonably begin without sensibly limiting economic and population growth.

To quote another source, “We face a wide-open opportunity to break with the old ways of doing the town’s business…..” That is a true statement. But the necessary “break with the old ways” of continous economic and population growth is not what is occurring. There is a call for a break with the old ways, but the required changes in behavior are not what is being proposed as we plan for the future. What is being proposed and continues to occur is more of the same, old business-as-usual overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the very activities that appear to be growing unsustainbly. More business-as-usual could soon become patently unsustainable, both locally and globally. A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch. Perhaps necessary changes away from UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH and toward sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises are in the offing.

Think globally while there is still time and act locally before it is too late for human action to make any difference in the clear and presently dangerous course of unfolding human-induced ecological events, both in our planetary home and in our villages, towns and cities.