The WHO
Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO)
Public Forum - A
fair go for all: Addressing social and health inequities in Australia and
internationally - 12 May 2016. The Forum will focus on what works and why in
policy areas including: Indigenous affairs, urban environments, social
protection/paid parental leave and health systems. The forum will start
with a panel discussion entitled "How equitable is the Federal 2016
budget?” hosted by Paul Barclay, host of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National. This
discussion will be broadcast on the Big Ideas radio program. For more
information: http://www.anu.edu.au/events/a-fair-go-for-all-addressing-social-and-health-inequities-in-australia-and-internationally-0
UNICEF report -
'Fairness for Children' - released 14 April 2016. This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41
countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on ‘bottom-end inequality’ –
the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle – and addresses
the question ‘how far behind are children being allowed to fall?’ in income,
education, health and life satisfaction. Visit: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/830/?utm_source=m2news-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=html&utm_ca.
How can we
increase children’s understanding of the social determinants of health? Why
charitable drives in schools reinforce individualism, responsibilisation and
inequity. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2014.935703
(if you want this article and can’t access it – please email.)
Abstract:
This paper examines the ways in which neoliberal responses to social health
issues shape the educational discourses and practices of schools. As schools
are increasingly identified as ideal spaces for health promotion, the question
of how and why educators and public health practitioners can and should work
together continues to be debated. Using Bourdieu’s theory of reproduction, we
use this indicative example of emergency food to examine how ‘charity alone’
models reproduce and perpetuate inequitable health outcomes in neoliberal
societies. This individualistic view of health continues to work against public
health and social justice education initiatives increasingly found in schools,
curricula and wider society; creating a dissonance between rhetoric and
reality. Revolutionary critical pedagogies are explored to examine the
implications of these practices in schools, and how the framework of service
learning may offer an approach for involving primary students in empathy,
caring and social justice. We seek to extend the existing literature by
exploring ways of shifting, rather than reproducing, the current practices of
educators and public health practitioners in how children experience health
inequality and the social determinants of health.
World
Development Indicators 2016: Featuring the Sustainable Development Goals: http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi
Neoliberalism –
the ideology at the root of all our problems - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot?CMP=fb_gu
