1. Transgender health: an opportunity for global health
equity
The Lancet is publishing its first Series on transgender
health. Transgender people live in all countries, but their acceptance by
communities and freedom to live with their chosen gender identity or expression
varies according to culture and society. Read more: http://www.thelancet.com/series/transgender-health.
2. Global Nutrition Report 2016: Rates of obesity and
overweight are rising in every region of the world and in nearly every country
according to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report. The independent report reveals
insufficient progress in the fight against all forms of malnutrition; for
example, almost all countries are off course on efforts to reduce anemia in
women and to prevent further increase in diabetes. Read more: http://globalnutritionreport.org/
3. The Social Determinants of NCDs - Youtube Video
Walk the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, as Dr Alessandro Demaio explains the Social Determinants of NCDs and Global Health. Click here to watch the video.
Walk the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, as Dr Alessandro Demaio explains the Social Determinants of NCDs and Global Health. Click here to watch the video.
4. You can Create Change: In October 2015, the
Sudbury & District Health Unit (SDHU) launched a campaign called You Can
Create Change. It is part of the SDHU’s health equity communications and social
marketing activities, which aim to shift the conversation about health equity
in our communities, and, more importantly, to encourage community members to
take action to address health inequities. As part of this campaign we have
developed a video. This video highlights the notion that everyone can create
change in their community.
The video, along with information about the campaign, can be
found online by visiting www.sdhu.com/change
5. The challenge of false beliefs∗ Understanding and
countering misperceptions in politics and health care:
Misperceptions about politics and health can undermine
public debate and distort people’s choices and behaviour. Why do people hold
these false or unsupported beliefs and why is it so difficult to change their
minds? An emerging literature examines the difficulty of correcting false or
unsupported beliefs and the reasons for this resistance, but relatively little
is known about the sources of misperceptions, the psychology of misperception
belief, or how to most effectively counter these false claims. In addition,
most studies focus on the mass public’s beliefs in well-known misperceptions;
the mechanisms by which false beliefs become politicized, disseminated, and
integrated into individual belief systems and the role of elites and the media
in that process are less well understood. Read more: https://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/events/Nyhan_20160613.pdf.
6. How to improve collaboration between the public health
sector and other policy sectors to reduce health inequalities? A
study in sixteen municipalities in the Netherlands. The causes of
health inequalities are complex. For the reduction of health inequalities,
intersectoral collaboration between the public health sector and both social
policy sectors (e.g. youth affairs, education) and physical policy sectors
(e.g. housing, spatial planning) is essential, but in local practice difficult
to realize. The aim of this study was to examine the collaboration between the
sectors in question more closely and to identify opportunities for improvement.
The study found that the policy workers of social sectors were more involved in
the public health network and more frequently supported the objectives in the
field of health inequality reduction. Both social policy sectors and physical
policy sectors used policies and activities to reduce health inequalities. More
is done to influence the determinants of health inequality through policies
aimed at lifestyle and social setting than through policies aimed at
socioeconomic factors and the physical environment. Where the physical policy
sectors are involved in the public health network, the collaboration follows a
very similar pattern as with the social policy sectors. All sectors recognise
the importance of good relationships, positive experiences, a common interest
in working together and coordinated mechanisms. This study shows that there is
scope for improving collaboration in the field of health inequality reduction
between the public health sector and both social policy sectors and physical
policy sectors. Ways in which improvement could be realised include involving
physical policy sectors in the network, pursuing widely supported policy goals,
making balanced efforts to influence determinants of health inequalities, and
increasing the emphasis on a programmatic approach. Read more: click here.
7. Beyond Individualised Approaches to Diabetes Type 2
Explanations for type 2 diabetes are broadened beyond the
individual body and ‘bad lifestyles’ to include major institutions, the social
and material contexts of food and eating, and employment. Precarious
employment, a social determinant of health, encourages changes to food
practices, lowers working conditions, worsens health, can bring poverty and
increases shift work, a causal risk factor for diabetes. Scientists have played
a part in revolutionising foods and technologies which minimise labour and
movement. There are excess additives in processed food. Genetic explanations
for the higher rates of diabetes in First Nations peoples give way to social
explanations: colonial history, British/Euro-American cuisine, food insecurity,
trauma and social conditions resulting in chronic stress. Self-management
education takes a ‘nutritionist’ approach towards food and eating and tends to
minimise the social context and skills of those with the condition particularly
women workers in poorer social groups who have higher rates of diabetes (T2DM).
Read more: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12369/full
8. Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local
Governments: https://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/factsheets/health_inall_policies_guide_169pages.ashx
9. 'Afternow' - what's next for the health of society?
Professor Phil Hanlon from the University of Glasgow
discusses such seemingly intractable problems as; obesity, overwhelming
involvement in various 'addictions', loss of wellbeing and inequalities as
emergent products of our late modern culture and social structures. He argues
that these problems will not improve until there is a radical transformation of
our whole society and the culture that has created it. Watch here:
10. Many Australians pay too much for health care –
here’s what the government needs to do: https://croakey.org/many-australians-pay-too-much-for-health-care-heres-what-the-government-needs-to-do/?mc_cid=0373aa9239&mc_eid=04b9c370f0
11. What would Brexit mean for the NHS, social care and
disabled people? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/14/brexit-nhs-health-social-care-disabled-people-eu-referendum
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