1. How’s life? 2015 Measuring health and wellbeing
How’s
Life? describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in
OECD and partner countries. It includes a wide variety of statistics, capturing
both material well-being. This third edition includes a special focus on child
wellbeing. http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/economics/how-s-life-2015_how_life-2015-en#page1
2. An interesting resource on injury prevention: Canadian Injury
Prevention Resource – includes
a deeper dive into the determinants of injury
3. Sick with worry – Stories from the front-line of inequality 2015
4. Addressing social determinants of health inequities through
settings: a rapid review
5. Towards health equity: a framework for the application of
proportionate universalism
6. Update from Heart Foundation. Please find attached an update on the Heart
Foundation’s position regarding suggested legislative amendments to increase
the visibility of health and wellbeing as an objective of the Tasmanian
Planning Scheme. For further information please contact Graeme Lynch - Graeme.Lynch@heartfoundation.org.au
7. Ageing and Health. The
World Health Organisation released the World
Report on Ageing and Health on the 1st of October. The report
states that health inequities is a key global challenge for the
future. View the full report, fact sheets and media statements at www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs404/en/
8. VicHealth suite of 18 new health equity resources
Evidence tells us that promoting equity in health is best done by understanding and addressing the social conditions that influence health, and how these conditions are distributed unequally in society. These are called the social determinants of health inequities. Click here for the full suite.
Evidence tells us that promoting equity in health is best done by understanding and addressing the social conditions that influence health, and how these conditions are distributed unequally in society. These are called the social determinants of health inequities. Click here for the full suite.
9. Fantasy paradigms of health inequalities: Utopian thinking ?
Alex
Scott-Samuel and Katherine Elizabeth Smith
Social
Theory & Health 13, 418-436 (August /November 2015) |
doi:10.1057/sth.2015.12
Abstract
This
article argues that, while it can be politically expedient for governments to
engage with health inequalities, they cannot, within the confines of
neo-liberalism, realistically propose actions that evidence suggests will
effectively reduce them – such as tackling power inequalities, social status
and connections or class inequality. Indeed, a dominant ‘policy paradigm’
prioritising economic growth restricts the ability of policy actors to imagine
alternative, more equitable scenarios. In this context, some policy actors and
researchers have devised a parallel fantasy world in which proximal,
downstream, easily tackled exposures are posited as potential solutions to
health inequalities. The consequence of this is a widespread public sector
culture in which well-meaning policymakers, practitioners, researchers and
members of the public collude in sustaining a ‘cargo cult’ of health
behaviourism. In examining this situation, we draw on accounts and critiques of
utopian thinking to help explain: (i) the remarkable persistence of policy
proposals to tackle health inequalities via downstream interventions, in spite
of the strength of evidence challenging such approaches; and (ii) the limited
extent to which more upstream proposals inform policy debates. We argue Ruth
Levitas’ notion of ‘utopia as method’ offers an imaginative and potentially
useful avenue for future health inequalities research.
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/journal/v13/n3-4/full/sth201512a.html
Please email me if you can’t access the full article and would like to read it.
10. A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity-Community
strategies for preventing chronic disease
11. Systems change for the social determinants of health
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