tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61017757144547287312024-03-04T20:42:14.655+11:00Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network - TasmaniaThe purpose of the Network is to work together to leverage action on the Social Determinants of Health so as to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for all Tasmanians.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-35786205251886022062017-08-24T07:40:00.001+10:002017-08-24T07:40:02.189+10:00Some news items shared among network members<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Sustainable Development Goals:</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by all Member States of the United Nations.
Health and well-being for all at all ages is a goal in itself (Goal 3), but it
also affects and contributes to other SDGs. In addition, progress towards other
SDGs can directly and indirectly benefit health and well-being. Health 2020,
the policy framework for the WHO European Region, incorporates approaches and
priorities common to the 2030 Agenda and provides a stepping stone towards
achieving the SDGs in the Region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read more: </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-policy/sustainable-development-goals">http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-policy/sustainable-development-goals</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2. Pokies cause harm</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">: <b>Get poker
machines out of pubs and clubs </b>– sign the letter: <a href="http://sarc.good.do/getthepokiesoutoftasmaniaspubsandclubs/letter/">http://sarc.good.do/getthepokiesoutoftasmaniaspubsandclubs/letter/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">3.
Having a bad job may be worse for your health than having no job at all</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/having-a-bad-job-may-be-worse-for-your-health-than-having-no-job-at-all?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=rgShare&utm_campaign=shareBlogPost">https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/having-a-bad-job-may-be-worse-for-your-health-than-having-no-job-at-all?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=rgShare&utm_campaign=shareBlogPost</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">4.
Infographic – what makes us healthy? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.health.org.uk/blog/infographic-what-makes-us-healthy">http://www.health.org.uk/blog/infographic-what-makes-us-healthy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">5. </span></b><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Biology is partly to blame for high rates of
mental illness in women – the rest is social: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="http://theconversation.com/biology-is-partly-to-blame-for-high-rates-of-mental-illness-in-women-the-rest-is-social-75700?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton"><span lang="EN">http://theconversation.com/biology-is-partly-to-blame-for-high-rates-of-mental-illness-in-women-the-rest-is-social-75700?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">6. </span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">How prejudice pushes low-income
people onto an unhealthy diet</span></b><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> - </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-prejudice-pushes-low-income-people-onto-an-unhealthy-diet-81936?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton"><span lang="EN">https://theconversation.com/how-prejudice-pushes-low-income-people-onto-an-unhealthy-diet-81936?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">7.
Children from poorer families have hardened arteries as young as 11: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/children-from-poorer-families-have-hardened-arteries-as-young-as-11/news-story/74115fcdef0bbff2a1f2ed37b47e0629">http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/children-from-poorer-families-have-hardened-arteries-as-young-as-11/news-story/74115fcdef0bbff2a1f2ed37b47e0629</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">8.
“Personal Responsibility” Is A Meaningless Term: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="https://medium.com/@gidmk/personal-responsibility-is-a-meaningless-term-8c1f7732993b">https://medium.com/@gidmk/personal-responsibility-is-a-meaningless-term-8c1f7732993b</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">9.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"> </span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Vanishing Australian backyards leave us vulnerable to the
stresses of city life: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/vanishing-australian-backyards-leave-us-vulnerable-to-the-stresses-of-city-life-81479?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton"><span lang="EN">https://theconversation.com/vanishing-australian-backyards-leave-us-vulnerable-to-the-stresses-of-city-life-81479?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;">10.
Teenagers from remote NT Aboriginal community make hip hop clip about mental
illness: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/indigenous-teens-make-hip-hop-clip-about-mental-illness/8833206">http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/indigenous-teens-make-hip-hop-clip-about-mental-illness/8833206</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">To see
more posts visit: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sdohantas"><span lang="EN">https://www.facebook.com/sdohantas</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-66145439244791913062016-09-06T08:53:00.001+10:002016-09-06T08:54:59.811+10:00A big week with Prof Michael Marmot in town last week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 –
Health inequalities and the causes of the causes: </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/boyer-lectures-episode-1-health-inequalities-and-the-causes-of-the-causes-64835" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://theconversation.com/boyer-lectures-episode-1-health-inequalities-and-the-causes-of-the-causes-64835</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Fantasyland or a Fair Go?
Michael Marmot on QandA: </span><a href="https://croakey.org/fantasyland-or-a-fair-go-michael-marmot-on-qanda/" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://croakey.org/fantasyland-or-a-fair-go-michael-marmot-on-qanda/</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">To mark MarmotOz and the
Boyer Lectures, Croakey launches an SDOH compilation – get your free copy here:
</span><a href="https://croakey.org/to-mark-marmotoz-and-the-boyer-lectures-croakey-launches-an-sdoh-compilation-get-your-free-copy-here/" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://croakey.org/to-mark-marmotoz-and-the-boyer-lectures-croakey-launches-an-sdoh-compilation-get-your-free-copy-here/</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Social determinants – how
class and wealth affect our health (Prof Sharon Friel): </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/social-determinants-how-class-and-wealth-affect-our-health-64442" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://theconversation.com/social-determinants-how-class-and-wealth-affect-our-health-64442</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Want to improve the nation’s
health? Start by reducing inequalities and improving living conditions
(Prof Fran Baum): </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/want-to-improve-the-nations-health-start-by-reducing-inequalities-and-improving-living-conditions-64434" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://theconversation.com/want-to-improve-the-nations-health-start-by-reducing-inequalities-and-improving-living-conditions-64434</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Talking Point (The Mercury):
State’s health policy fails by blaming the sick for their illness: </span><a href="http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-states-health-policy-fails-by-blaming-the-sick-for-their-illness/news-story/9fa1da80917119ea53d9637470d1862a" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-states-health-policy-fails-by-blaming-the-sick-for-their-illness/news-story/9fa1da80917119ea53d9637470d1862a</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Doesn't seem to matter
whether you live in Tasmania or England...public health policy is trending
along the same lines...</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31476-3/fulltext?rss=yes" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank">http://www.thelancet.com/…/PIIS0140-6736(16)31476…/fulltext…</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">A world with inequality
everywhere is a moral and economic threat: </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/a-world-with-inequality-everywhere-is-a-moral-and-economic-threat-64229" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://theconversation.com/a-world-with-inequality-everywhere-is-a-moral-and-economic-threat-64229</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">POLITICAL AMNESIA - How We
Forgot How To Govern: </span><a href="https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2015/11/political-amnesia/extract" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2015/11/political-amnesia/extract</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">It’s time to incorporate
social needs into patient care: </span><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/01/social-needs-health-care/" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/01/social-needs-health-care/</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Beyond Individualised
Approaches to Diabetes Type 2: </span><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12369/epdf" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12369/epdf</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Inequality and health
literacy: </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/inequality-and-health-literacy-20160901-gr68lc.html" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">http://www.smh.com.au/comment/inequality-and-health-literacy-20160901-gr68lc.html</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">The Australian Longitudinal
Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) is a longitudinal survey of over 58,000 women
in three cohorts who were aged 18-23, 45-50 and 70-75 when surveys began in
1996: </span><a href="http://www.alswh.org.au/" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #365899;">http://www.alswh.org.au/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Understand and address health
inequalities. This free online course will help you to understand health
inequalities and how they are socially driven. We will look at how health is
affected by wider determinants and how you can make a difference as a health
professional to close the health inequality gap. </span><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-determinants-of-health?utm_campaign=Share+Links&utm_medium=futurelearn-run_details&utm_source=email" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-determinants-of-health?utm_campaign=Share+Links&utm_medium=futurelearn-run_details&utm_source=email</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">High-Need, High-Cost
Patients: Who Are They and How Do They Use Health Care? </span><a href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2016/aug/high-need-high-cost-patients-meps1" style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2016/aug/high-need-high-cost-patients-meps1</a></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-25072691603350473002016-08-23T19:37:00.002+10:002016-08-23T19:40:02.783+10:00Here are some of the items we've shared as a Network recently<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Are you under 18 and
living in Tassie?</span></b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/commissionerforchildrentas/?fref=nf">Commissioner
for Children and Young People Tasmania</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I need your help to fill out this short survey, so that I
can advocate to make Tasmania a better place for you! The results of the survey
as well as two meetings already held with the Commissioner for Children and
Young Peoples Advisory Council will be published in a Report to be released
later this year. <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M9CMCP6">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M9CMCP6</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Just announced! The New
Parliament: Challenges Australia Can’t Ignore<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are delighted to announce a special panel event in
October featuring <b>Michelle Grattan</b>
AO (Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation), <b>Dr Cassandra Goldie</b> (CEO, Australian Council of Social Service) and
<b>Professor Ian Harper</b> (Deloitte
Access Economics and Reserve Bank Board Member). Mark your diaries now for
6.00pm on <b>Tuesday 25 October</b> in the
Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus. We will be serving refreshments
from 5.30pm. Early registrations can be emailed to <a href="mailto:Louise.Grimmer@utas.edu.au">Louise.Grimmer@utas.edu.au</a>. This
is a free event and open to members of the public as well as University staff
and students. <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/social-change/home" target="_blank">http://www.utas.edu.au/social-change/home</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3. Watch Q&A on ABC
next Monday night</span></b> - <b>29 August</b> - as Sir Michael Marmot will be on the
panel. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/coming_up.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/coming_up.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Professor Sir Michael Marmot, President of the World Medical
Association, has been a leading researcher on health inequality issues for more
than four decades. He has played a central role in research projects studying
health equity and bringing research evidence to bear on policy and practice.
His many achievements include chairing the Commission on Social Determinants of
Health for the World Health Organization in 2005 which produced the
influential Closing the Gap in a Generation report in 2008. Its central
conclusion was social injustice is killing on a grand scale.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. What will it take for
Tasmania to have Australia’s healthiest population by 2025?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Research Week public forum inspired by the Tasmanian
Governments Healthy Tasmania Plan, <b>31<sup>st</sup> Aug 2016</b>, 3:00-5:00pm, Rory Spence VOS
Construction Lecture Theatre, Architecture & Design, Inveresk campus, RSVP
/ Contact Information: E: UTAS.Events@utas.edu.au, T: 6324 3290</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.events.utas.edu.au/2016/august/what-will-it-take-for-tasmania-to-have-australias-healthiest-population-by-2025">http://www.events.utas.edu.au/2016/august/what-will-it-take-for-tasmania-to-have-australias-healthiest-population-by-2025</a>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. Opinions on the State’s
new Healthy Tasmania Strategic Plan:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Talking Point: Tobacco, food and alcohol lobbies
dictate - <a href="http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-tobacco-food-and-alcohol-lobbies-dictate/news-story/d2b6ce1a2208683c5faab2effb4b63bc">http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-tobacco-food-and-alcohol-lobbies-dictate/news-story/d2b6ce1a2208683c5faab2effb4b63bc</a></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Letter to the editor regarding tobacco component
of Healthy Tasmania Strategy - <a href="http://www.examiner.com.au/story/4080885/letters-to-the-editor/?cs=100" target="_blank">http://www.examiner.com.au/story/4080885/letters-to-the-editor/?cs=100</a></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Kym Goodes (TasCOSS) opinion piece – The
Examiner - <a href="http://www.examiner.com.au/story/4083987/finding-balance-the-key-to-good-health/?cs=97" target="_blank">http://www.examiner.com.au/story/4083987/finding-balance-the-key-to-good-health/?cs=97</a></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Michael Ferguson’s perspective on the Healthy
Tasmania Strategy <a href="http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-we-must-tackle-smoking-and-obesity/news-story/9386f9609961f14c7dec086c289ae085" target="_blank">http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-we-must-tackle-smoking-and-obesity/news-story/9386f9609961f14c7dec086c289ae085</a></span></div>
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is about more than healthcare:</span></b> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/delivering-better-health-is-about-more-than-healthcare-20160817-gqul3a.html">http://www.smh.com.au/comment/delivering-better-health-is-about-more-than-healthcare-20160817-gqul3a.html</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. What's your share of the
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When you think about your household’s income, do you feel
rich, poor, or just average? Most of us have no idea – or the wrong idea – of
how we compare with the rest of the population. But here, in 10 clicks, you can
find out how many households are better or worse off than yours, and see how
your ideal world compares. <a href="http://www.compareyourincome.org/index.php">http://www.compareyourincome.org/index.php</a></span></div>
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development across domains of education, health, employment, political and
civic participation. <a href="http://www.youthaction.org.au/australian_ydi" target="_blank">http://www.youthaction.org.au/australian_ydi</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tasmania's youth suicide rate highest in the country,
prompting calls for better targeted services: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2016-08-14%2Ftasmanian-youth-suicide-rate-reflects-social-problems%2F7732576&h=aAQGg1ptaAQFnOGHq0P8ECgm4gaOttGy-LtvSi68DBrhdLg&enc=AZOqknPcG2iDY3_OF5YdWe0YcEsvSuhuxvKu2czI3hRYP-Uv0zLUxLifrt3aD9pDm0hWg27Yozk_9w0trgCopWJgeOvpvhF7hX2ex13i1Rr39quktXoP9bRwlBE7_3Vh-gV6wYy05yJlnamfPXcSS8OEfAoKHGk0HGg3KHzoj8w4sJorhafkl0OpJk_5yIizsL7sceUNtwpVq8DCWQfVshgg&s=1" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/…/tasmanian-youth-suicide-rat…/7732576</a></span></div>
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determinants transforming public health work: Targeting causes of health
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<b>1. Transgender health: an opportunity for global health
equity<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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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: <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/series/transgender-health">http://www.thelancet.com/series/transgender-health</a>.
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<b>2. Global Nutrition Report 2016</b>: 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: <a href="http://globalnutritionreport.org/">http://globalnutritionreport.org/</a></div>
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<b>3. The Social Determinants of NCDs</b> - Youtube Video<br />
Walk the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, as Dr Alessandro Demaio explains the Social
Determinants of NCDs and Global Health. <a href="http://www.m2news.com.au/handshake/link.php?n=19419&t=202694683" target="_blank">Click here</a> to watch the video.</div>
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<b>4. You can Create Change: </b>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
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found online by visiting <a href="http://www.sdhu.com/change" target="_blank">www.sdhu.com/change</a></div>
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<b>5. The challenge of false beliefs</b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";">∗</span> Understanding and
countering misperceptions in politics and health care:</b> </div>
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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: <a href="https://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/events/Nyhan_20160613.pdf">https://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/events/Nyhan_20160613.pdf</a><span style="color: #1f497d;">. </span> </div>
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<b>6. How to improve collaboration between the public health
sector and other policy sectors to reduce health inequalities?</b> <b><i>A
study in sixteen municipalities in the Netherlands</i></b>. 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: <a href="http://bit.ly/29hUgyf" target="_blank">click here</a>.</div>
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<b>7. Beyond Individualised Approaches to Diabetes Type 2 </b></div>
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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: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12369/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12369/full</a>
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<b>8. Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local
Governments: </b><a href="https://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/factsheets/health_inall_policies_guide_169pages.ashx">https://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/factsheets/health_inall_policies_guide_169pages.ashx</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>9. 'Afternow' - what's next for the health of society?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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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:</div>
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<b>10. Many Australians pay too much for health care –
here’s what the government needs to do: </b><a href="https://croakey.org/many-australians-pay-too-much-for-health-care-heres-what-the-government-needs-to-do/?mc_cid=0373aa9239&mc_eid=04b9c370f0">https://croakey.org/many-australians-pay-too-much-for-health-care-heres-what-the-government-needs-to-do/?mc_cid=0373aa9239&mc_eid=04b9c370f0</a></div>
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<b>11. What would Brexit mean for the NHS, social care and
disabled people? </b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/14/brexit-nhs-health-social-care-disabled-people-eu-referendum">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/14/brexit-nhs-health-social-care-disabled-people-eu-referendum</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-16182245233120387782016-04-28T21:31:00.003+10:002016-04-28T21:31:58.818+10:00Here are some items that may interest readers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Commission on Ending <b>Childhood Obesity</b> (ECHO) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Public Forum - <b>A
fair go for all</b>: 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: <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/events/a-fair-go-for-all-addressing-social-and-health-inequities-in-australia-and-internationally-0">http://www.anu.edu.au/events/a-fair-go-for-all-addressing-social-and-health-inequities-in-australia-and-internationally-0</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">UNICEF report -
<b>'Fairness for Children' </b>- released 14 April 2016. </span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">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: </span><a href="https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/830/?utm_source=m2news-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=html&utm_ca" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/830/?utm_source=m2news-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=html&utm_ca</a><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">How can we
increase <b>children’s understanding of the social determinants </b>of health? Why
charitable drives in schools reinforce individualism, responsibilisation and
inequity. </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2014.935703" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2014.935703</a><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">
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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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><b>World
Development Indicators 2016</b>: Featuring the Sustainable Development Goals: </span><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><b>Neoliberalism</b> –
the ideology at the root of all our problems - </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot?CMP=fb_gu" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot?CMP=fb_gu</a><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Many
thanks to all those who joined the conversation, prepared submissions and
contributed to the Network’s submission (final posted below (19 Feb) on </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the
Healthy Tasmania Community Consultation Draft</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">. Some of us also attended the public forums
that were held and it was fantastic to hear a strong voice on the need for
action on the social determinants of health. It’s important that we continue to
advocate at all levels in relation to this matter.</span></div>
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relation to tobacco, Kathy Barnsley from SmokeFree Tasmania has provided some
useful information that compares the two tobacco smoking proposals: MINIMUM
LEGAL SMOKING AGE (MLSA) VERSUS TOBACCO-FREE GENERATION AMENDMENT (TFG). View
the comparison table here: <a href="http://www.smokefreetasmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Comparison-table-MLSA-and-TFG_16125-1.pdf">http://www.smokefreetasmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Comparison-table-MLSA-and-TFG_16125-1.pdf</a>.
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">To
help us plan our next moves as a Network please join us for our </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">next
meeting</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> on </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">29th
of April</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>(10 – 11 am)</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">- all
welcome. Attend and video conference at these sites: <b>Hobart</b>, <b>Launceston</b> & <b>Burnie</b>. Please RSVP and obtain further details by contacting: <b>socialdeterminantsofhealthtas@gmail.com.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Climate Change and Health Promotion</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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economies over next few decades will be both dramatic and disruptive. The
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sectors, businesses and professions prepare for and are involved in this 21st
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The
Tasmanian Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network (SDoHAN) appreciates
this opportunity to comment on the Community Consultation Draft of the Healthy
Tasmania Five Year Strategic Plan (December 2015). We commend the Tasmanian
Government for taking this important step towards a healthier Tasmania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Network, we support the goal of improving the health of the Tasmanian
population through systems change and investment in preventive measures
underpinned by evidence-informed action on the social determinants of health. We
endorse the World Health Organisation’s definition of health </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">as “a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity. Therefore, it focuses not only on reducing mortality and morbidity,
but on the impact of health determinants, the economic, environmental and
social conditions, on health and well-being at various stages in life.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/Documents/Miriam%20Herzfeld/Miriam's%20Consultancy/SDoH%20Project/Network/Submissions/Healthy%20Tasmania%20Submission%20SDOHAN%2019%20Feb%202016.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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improve the effectiveness of the planned strategy we strongly suggest that the
following elements are incorporated.</span></div>
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determinants of health</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">.
The Consultation Draft makes minimal reference to social and environmental factors
such as education, income, housing, food security, equity, climate change and
social connections, and the influence these have on health outcomes. Tasmania continues to have among the lowest
health status in Australia yet is spending as much if not more on health
services than are other states and territories. Clearly, continual investment
in services is having little effect on the overall health of the population and
there are many other reasons that lie much deeper than our health care system
for our low achievements in health. The proposed health impact assessment
process has the potential to recognise social factors and their effect on
population health, but this process is complex, and must be well-resourced to
do so. The planned commissioning model should also be strongly based within a
social determinants framework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">There
is a strong international evidence base which clearly demonstrates the
relationship between action on social determinants and improved health outcomes
(e.g. <i>Closing the gap in a generation:
Health equity through action on the social determinants of health </i>(WHO,
2008); <i>Evidence review: Early childhood
development and the social determinants of health inequities </i>(Moore et al
2015); <i>Addressing the Social Determinants
of Health to Reduce Tobacco-Related Disparities </i>(Garrett et al 2015); <i>Social Determinants of Mental Health</i>
(WHO, 2014); <i>Health equity in Australia:
A policy framework based on action on the social determinants of obesity,
alcohol and tobacco </i>(Friel, 2009). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
our submission to the <i>Joint Select
Committee Preventative Health Care Inquiry</i>, we provided numerous examples
of evidence of some of the social determinants on health in the Tasmanian
context. On this note, we urge the Government, in preparing the Healthy
Tasmania Five Year Strategic Plan to consider the submissions that were
presented by stakeholders to this Inquiry and to engage in dialogue with the
Committee as it prepares its report. The two pieces of work should be in
synergy and the evidence that was presented to the Inquiry taken into consideration
as part of the development process for the Government’s Strategic Plan.</span></div>
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(WHO, 1986) that include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -24px;">Focusing simply on education strategies and placing the responsibility for improving one’s health on the individual, without appreciation for the wider determinants of health and a comprehensive plan of actions, is out of step with modern thinking and evidence-based best practice.</span></h1>
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of Proportional Universalism.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;"> We encourage the Government to become familiar with
the concept of <i>proportionate universalism</i>
and to embrace a population health approach. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;">Proportionate universalism is the resourcing and
delivering of universal services and programs at a scale and intensity
proportionate to the degree of need.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/Documents/Miriam%20Herzfeld/Miriam's%20Consultancy/SDoH%20Project/Network/Submissions/Healthy%20Tasmania%20Submission%20SDOHAN%2019%20Feb%202016.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>
We would argue that the terms preventive, public, and population health should
not be used interchangeably. Public health (the ‘new’ definition) and
population health are about more than prevention. A comprehensive review of the
literature would be useful in clarifying any misconception and provide the Government
with a useful framework.</span></div>
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life course approach</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif;">Government’s
Strategic Plan should emphasis a life course approach to good health and
wellbeing. Key stages in people’s lives have particular relevance for their
health. The life course approach is about recognising the importance of these
stages. The Strategic Plan should respond to key milestones in the life course
including the early years, adolescence, work/social life, and ageing. Each of
these phases presents important opportunities for a healthy life.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Building on relevant
literature</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;">. <span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Consultation Draft needs to draw strong parallels with existing well-researched
publications, frameworks and plans, such as </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Chronic
diseases in Australia: Blueprint for preventive action, The Cost of Inaction on
the Social Determinants of Health</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Rethink
Mental Health </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">(obesity and smoking should not be considered in isolation of
mental health and wellbeing, and other social determinants such as employment
and income) and </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">The World Report on Ageing
and Health. </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">We note that there is virtually no reference to Tasmania’s five-yearly
State of Public Health Report (a requirement of the Public Health Act 1997) or
to relevant preventative health data that demonstrates social gradients of health
in Tasmania. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -18pt;">We suggest that further research be undertaken to
inform the Strategic Plan and that it be prepared in consultation with those who
can identify the existing evidence-base on which it should be based.</span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">We encourage the Government
to recognise frameworks and principles such as those put forward in <i>Chronic diseases in Australia: Blueprint for
preventive action, </i>and to base the Plan on a similar set of principles<i>:</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">1.
<b>Systemic approach</b>: focus on common
risk factors and determinants, not individual diseases. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Evidence-based action:</b> act now using
best available evidence and continue to build evidence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Tackling health inequity:</b> work to
improve and redress inequities in outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>National agenda with local action:</b>
build commitment and innovation with local action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">5.
<b>A life course approach:</b> intervene
early and exploit prevention opportunities at all ages and across generations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Shared responsibility:</b> encourage
complementary actions by all groups. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Responsible partnerships:</b> avoid
ceding policy influence to vested interests.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/Documents/Miriam%20Herzfeld/Miriam's%20Consultancy/SDoH%20Project/Network/Submissions/Healthy%20Tasmania%20Submission%20SDOHAN%2019%20Feb%202016.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Addressing legal barriers.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;"> Legal barriers that undermine health and wellbeing outcomes for Tasmanian’s must be addressed if there is to be successful implementation of harm reduction and health promotion programs in the community. Punitive laws, policies and practices that promote stigma and discrimination against particular groups in the community (such as sex workers, people living with or affected by HIV, people who inject drugs) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>persist within many healthcare facilities, deterring people from seeking services, eroding trust in health systems and jeopardising implementation of and access to services. An investment approach that strengthens linkages to the Office of the Attorney General should be adopted as part of a Health in All Policies approach.</span></h1>
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Achieving good health requires significant investment.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25px; text-indent: -18pt;"> We question what new money will be directed towards improving the health of the population. We note that current investment in preventive health is just 1.9% of the Department’s budget and dispute the statement that the “Tasmanian Government already significantly invests in prevention...” While we support ideas raised in the Consultation Draft such as health impact assessment, embedding a focus on health across government, improving health literacy and anticipatory care, these are all processes that require significant planning and investment. We thus endorse the proposal by the Heart Foundation, TasCOSS and others that the prevention budget be raised to at least 5% of the health budget (irrespective of where this money comes from).</span></h1>
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<b style="font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Ongoing community consultation</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;">. We encourage the Government to include the community<b> </b>when preparing its Healthy Tasmania Five Year Strategic Plan – recognising communities as <i>educators of </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;">policy</span><i style="font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">-makers.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/Documents/Miriam%20Herzfeld/Miriam's%20Consultancy/SDoH%20Project/Network/Submissions/Healthy%20Tasmania%20Submission%20SDOHAN%2019%20Feb%202016.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[iv]</span></b></span></a></span> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;">We query what process the Government employed in determining the priorities identified in the discussion paper. We agree that obesity, smoking and health literacy are issues of concern but such symptoms are usually the result of more complex social problems – and this is not reflected in your Consultation Draft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">When consulting with the community, there needs to be acknowledgement that health is complicated and that language matters. As stated by World Health Organisation: “Health is not a stand-alone phenomenon with clear boundaries. Diseases and health conditions have multiple causes, including social. They are interrelated with nature and nurture, and evolve over time.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/Documents/Miriam%20Herzfeld/Miriam's%20Consultancy/SDoH%20Project/Network/Submissions/Healthy%20Tasmania%20Submission%20SDOHAN%2019%20Feb%202016.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[v]</span></span></span></a> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This complexity is</span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> well recognised in the community. In 2015, we undertook a study where we asked members of the Tasmanian public for their thoughts about health, and specifically the way in which policy makers and researchers talk about it. In contrast to the Healthy Tasmania publication, we found that Tasmanians place a lot of emphasis on the underlying factors that contribute to good health – such as education, housing, and social connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">We also found that the community are concerned when they are labelled as being ‘vulnerable’, ‘disadvantaged’ and being ‘targeted’. Study participants described these words as being impersonal and vilifying, contributing to stigma and blame. Participants suggested that words which reflect prejudice, that oversimplify complex relationships or that minimise history, can heighten bias and exclusion. Study participants suggested that those who use such terminology are disconnected and out of touch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">If we want to be a healthy population, we need to bring everyone along for the ride. Defining people by their weaknesses and over-simplifying the complexities of their existence will not lead us to the end goal.</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 20px; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Ongoing community partnerships. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -17.85pt;">We strongly urge the Government to work in partnership with stakeholders – such as community organisations, peak bodies and volunteer networks – to determine the health priorities that can make Tasmanians a healthier population. There is vast untapped knowledge and important social capital that could support the Government’s work in this area. Tapping into this knowledge, and integrating it with quality data will help give the Government a strong evidence-based Strategic Plan. </span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Achieving good health requires a long term approach.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -18pt;"> We wish to raise the point that if the Government is serious about improving the health of the population, a five year timeframe is too short. This is a plan that requires long term strategic vision, with bi-partisan support. It also requires a Health in All Policies approach. As it stands, the Consultation Draft proffers much uncertainty in terms of:</span></div>
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TAS 7315<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5, 11 High Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TAS 7250<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advise if you will be attending: socialdeterminantsofhealthtas@gmail.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">To
access the relevant papers visit: <a href="http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/about_the_department/our_plans_and_strategies/a_healthy_tasmania">http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/about_the_department/our_plans_and_strategies/a_healthy_tasmania</a>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">1. Government releases Draft Climate Change Plan – calls for
submissions: </span></b><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/275343/Embracing_the_Climate_Challenge-Action_Plan.pdf">http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/275343/Embracing_the_Climate_Challenge-Action_Plan.pdf</a>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">2. Have you signed up or are you interested in being part of a
Health Literacy Network?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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along to one of the regional meetings to talk about what the Network will do:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Ulverstone
21 January 10 - 11:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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21 January 2 -
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January 10 - 11:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="mailto:lisa.otoole@dhhs.tas.gov.au">lisa.otoole@dhhs.tas.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Lisa
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Public
Health Services | <a href="http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/peh">Department of Health
and Human Services</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1 Henty House, Civic Square, Launceston<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">3. FGM/C and Violence Against Women: Red Cross' BCHP presents...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Dear
People,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Red
Cross Tasmania’s Bi-cultural Community Health Program assists women, girls and
others affected by Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">FGM/C
is a practice that does not take place in a vacuum. It occurs in a much
broader context of violence against women and is also influenced by social
determinants of health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Our
Team invite the health sector and broader public community to engage with our
events, which commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C,
which is February 6th each year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Attendees
will begin to appreciate how very complex dealing with this form of gender
based violence is; and why it is so important to begin to own a deeper
understanding of the issues supporting its continuation: in the hope that one
day, it will be a practice that is understood universally to have no place in
the lives of women, children and their significant others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Please
join our Team, as we present this discussion and associated dilemmas; and which
includes anonymous testimony of a woman who now takes a firm stance to protect
her own daughters, despite significant personal risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Attached
is a flier for free public events in Launceston (Monday 8th February) and
Hobart (Tuesday 9th February): 3 weeks’ time. Please share far and
wide. All are Welcome. (Note: Flier not attached and can be forwarded as
requested)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Warm
regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Xavier
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Bi-Cultural Community Health Program (BCHP) Community Development Worker <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Migration
Support Programs - Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">I
would like to let you know about a new initiative that is commencing in 2016
for men in Tasmania - the Common Ground Men's Group program. Common Ground
Men's Groups are an 8 week facilitated program that challenge and enable
men to strengthen their relationships and explore the issues common to most
men, in a safe and respectful space. This program has been running
successfully in Queensland for over 10 years and has received very favourable
feedback from men who have attended, as well as their partners.
You can read some of the feedback on the <a href="https://menswellbeing.memberize.net/clubportal/ClubStatic.cfm?clubID=2384&pubmenuoptID=25376">Men’s
Wellbeing webpage here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">For
those in Hobart I would like to invite you to a service providers brief
information session and discussion at room 1 on the ground floor in the
Mcdougal Building, 90 Davey Street, Hobart, at 1pm on Thursday 4th February.
If you would like to come along, please drop me an email. Feel free
to bring your lunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">At
this session you will be able to find out the program, and how it may be useful
for men that you may know or work with, and ask questions about some of the
content etc. Feel free to bring friends or colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">For
those in Launceston:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">I
will also be in Launceston I can put you in touch with
the folks running the program up there, or possibly come and speak
with your group myself when I visit Launnie in early Feb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">A
free intro night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">There will be
free introductory nights for men and or their partners or other
interested people in the community before every Common Ground program. Dates
for the next free evenings in Hobart and Launceston are below. Please get
in touch if you are interested in attending.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">· Hobart
- 7.30 pm, Wed. 10th Feb. 2016. McDougal Building,
Battery Point - contact Bill McDonald<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- 7.30 pm – Venue to be advised Thursday 11th Feb. 2016
- contact: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">At
the following link is information flyer you can hand out to men, or women who
have partners that might be interested: <a href="http://tasmen.org.au/images/Common-Ground-TasMen-A5-Poster.pd">http://tasmen.org.au/images/Common-Ground-TasMen-A5-Poster.pd</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information about the program can be found at the <a href="http://tasmen.org.au/common-ground">Common Ground page of the Tasmen
website</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Please
feel free to send this message onto other lists and networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Cheerio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">JB<br />
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Jonathan Bedloe<br />
0429 581 095<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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education have a role to play in stemming the obesity epidemic? Are new
technologies really changing the way our children think and learn? <a href="http://www.oecd.org/edu/trends-shaping-education-22187049.htm">Trends
Shaping Education 2016 </a>tells the story of how economic, social, demographic
and technological trends can potentially impact education. It aims to
inform strategic thinking and stimulate reflection on the future of education,
in schools, universities, or in programmes for older adults. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">7. Discover the impact of the free trade agreements on public health</span></b><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">. <a href="https://vimeo.com/148089528">https://vimeo.com/148089528</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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manage ‘lifestyle drift’? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";">Lifestyle
drift is increasingly seen as a barrier to broad action on the social
determinants of health. The term is currently used in the population health
literature to describe how broad policy initiatives for tackling inequalities
in health that start off with social determinants (upstream) approach drift
downstream to largely individual lifestyle factors, as well as the general
trend of investing a the individual level. Lifestyle drift occurs despite the
on-going efforts of public health advocates, such as anti-obesity campaigners,
to draw attention to the social factors which shape health behavior and
outcomes. In this article, we explore whether the sociology of social problems
can help understand lifestyle drift in the context of obesity. Specifically, we
apply Jamrozik and Nocella’s residualist conversion model to the problem of
obesity in order to explore whether such an approach can provide greater
insight into the processes that underpin lifestyle drift and inform our
attempts to mitigate it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dav116?ijkey=vKAnte7AMEsyP5a&keytype=ref">http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/dav116?ijkey=vKAnte7AMEsyP5a&keytype=ref</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scoping review - </span></b><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif";"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hsc.12320/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hsc.12320/full</a>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-26732368812457119092015-10-30T15:51:00.000+11:002015-10-30T15:51:06.692+11:00Just Words Workshop - All welcome<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Many
thanks to those who supported the launch of </span><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Just
Words</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">
before I went on leave. We will be conducting a workshop about our research on </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thursday
19 November 2015</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">
at the Video Conference Room, Level 4, 34 Davey Street Hobart from </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">10am
– 12pm</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> as
part of the Health Promotion Community of Practice gatherings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">We will
discuss the findings of our qualitative study exploring how ‘everyday’ people
interpret and understand the language of social determinants of health in the
context of their own lives and broader society. The study identified deep
concerns among community members about health inequity and words without
action. The findings have implications for the ways in which health promotion
policy, practice and advocacy are framed. We will discuss as a group how we can
use the findings of this study in everyday practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attend the launch or you would like the opportunity to discuss it further
please come along. Everyone is welcome to attend. We will link to other sites
around the state but this will need to be organised beforehand. For further
information please contact Rebecca: <a href="mailto:rebecca.essex@dhhs.tas.gov.au">rebecca.essex@dhhs.tas.gov.au</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-81266644707716144062015-10-30T15:47:00.001+11:002015-10-30T15:47:37.987+11:00Here's some great resources you might like to check out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1. How’s life? 2015 Measuring health and wellbeing <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">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. <a href="http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/economics/how-s-life-2015_how_life-2015-en#page1">http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/economics/how-s-life-2015_how_life-2015-en#page1</a>
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Prevention Resource</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> – </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">includes
a deeper dive into the determinants of injury<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.parachutecanada.org/research/item/cipr#sthash.ELPCJs2z.dpuf">http://www.parachutecanada.org/research/item/cipr#sthash.ELPCJs2z.dpuf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3. Sick with worry – Stories from the front-line of inequality 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.vinnies.org.au/icms_docs/225819_Sick_with_worry_2015_national_report.pdf">https://www.vinnies.org.au/icms_docs/225819_Sick_with_worry_2015_national_report.pdf</a>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">4. Addressing social determinants of health inequities through
settings: a rapid review<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><a href="http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/suppl_2/ii126.full">http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/suppl_2/ii126.full</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">5. Towards health equity: a framework for the application of
proportionate universalism<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">6. Update from Heart Foundation. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">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 - <a href="mailto:Graeme.Lynch@heartfoundation.org.au">Graeme.Lynch@heartfoundation.org.au</a>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">7. Ageing and Health. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The
World Health Organisation released the <em>World
Report on Ageing and Health</em> 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 <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs404/en/">www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs404/en/</a>
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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 <a href="http://www.m2news.com.au/handshake/link.php?n=18666&t=174405181" target="_blank">here </a>for the full suite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Alex
Scott-Samuel and Katherine Elizabeth Smith <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Social
Theory & Health 13, 418-436 (August /November 2015) |
doi:10.1057/sth.2015.12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/journal/v13/n3-4/full/sth201512a.html">http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/journal/v13/n3-4/full/sth201512a.html</a>
Please email me if you can’t access the full article and would like to read it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strategies for preventing chronic disease<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/pdfs/health-equity-guide/Health-Equity-Guide-intro.pdf">http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/pdfs/health-equity-guide/Health-Equity-Guide-intro.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-69566897758802715552015-08-22T06:24:00.000+10:002015-08-22T06:24:31.949+10:00Just Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On 21 August 2015, we published the findings of our study, <i>Just </i>Words - what we talk about when we talk about health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To obtain a copy of the report please send an email to: michael.bentley@utas.edu.au.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pictured: <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Robin Banks, Michael Bentley, Ruth Forrest, Miriam
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-21812882667216980872015-07-27T21:17:00.002+10:002015-07-27T21:19:04.530+10:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">What
we talk about </span></b><br />
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21 August 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Long Room in Parliament House, Hobart<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">for
a presentation on the findings of a study into what Tasmanians from all walks
of life think about health, the factors that impact upon it & the language
we use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We
invite you to join the conversation with our Host:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The Hon. Ruth
Forrest </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">MLC,
Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Preventative Health Care; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Researchers: <b>Ms
Miriam Vandenberg </b>& <b>Dr Michael Bentley</b>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Panellists: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;">·</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ms Cheynee
Pullen </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">from
Gagebrook Community Centre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;">·</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Dr Richard
Eccleston </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">from
the Institute for the Study of Social Change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;">·</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ms Robin Banks</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">, Tasmania’s
Anti-Discrimination Commissioner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">All
welcome to this free event. Light lunch provided. RSVP to socialdeterminantsofhealthtas@gmail.com </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 13pt;">by 19 August 2015.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">This
study was undertaken for the Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network
(Tasmania)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">and
funded by the proceeds from the ‘Our Health - who decides?’ Forum held in
November 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-32669942978474504032015-07-13T21:56:00.000+10:002015-07-13T21:56:01.703+10:00SDOHAN - Information to share<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">1. Family Food Patch Educators Story Book: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><a href="http://issuu.com/elizabethcrane4/docs/family_food_patch_educators_storybo/1">http://issuu.com/elizabethcrane4/docs/family_food_patch_educators_storybo/1</a><b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Children<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Each
month we discuss an issue of interest and importance, that affects
children and young people. At each conversation a speaker with expertise
or experience in a particular area will lead the conversation with a short
talk. The purpose of this series of conversations is to generate discussions,
broaden networks and develop possible strategies to further support or progress
issues of importance to children. Our last Lunchtime Conversation on The
Ingredients of a Child Safe Organisation was well attended and well received.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">July’s
Conversation will be about<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Cumulative
childhood trauma and its impact on educational outcomes. This upcoming
Lunchtime Conversation will be on held Wednesday 22nd July, between 13.00pm and
1400pm. It will be held at our office at 119 Macquarie Street,
Hobart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
Tasmania we are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of the need for
higher levels of participation in education. The next topic in this series of
conversations will focus on the impact of cumulative trauma on children and
young people and the impact this has on their education. More effective
support for this cohort of children will ensure greater numbers gain an
education. And thus go on to live happier, healthier and more productive lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Steve
Bentley - who has recently completed a Churchill Fellowship will be the
guest speaker and will give a 30 minute presentation on this
topic. The remainder of the session will be taken up with general
conversation related to this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Please
RSVP by Monday 20th July 2015. Please note, places will be limited to the
first twenty five people or organisations who RSVP to this invitation. A
light lunch will be provided. If after accepting, you are unable to attend for
any reason can you please let us know so we can reallocate your place. RSVPs to
Linda Bowen. <a href="mailto:linda.bowen@childcomm.tas.gov.au">linda.bowen@childcomm.tas.gov.au</a>,
Phone – 03 6233 4520. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Australian
Health Promotion Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Dear Members<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Deborah
Gleeson has prepared the following list of very important
developments we need to know about the TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership
Agreement). The developments happening are listed below for your
information and action where you deem appropriate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">1.
Fast track: The US Senate passed the ‘fast track’ (Trade Promotion Authority)
legislation early yesterday morning.<a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-j/">
CLICK HERE </a>This has been the main barrier to concluding the TPP
negotiations, so they are now likely to be wrapped up in a matter of weeks
(although there are still some very contentious issues to be resolved). There
is no confirmed date yet for the ministerial meeting, although one news article
has suggested mid-July.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Productivity Commission report: The Productivity Commission released a report
that is strongly critical of the Australian Government’s approach to trade
negotiations generally, and cast a lot of doubt on the claimed benefits of the
trade deals recently concluded. It was also highly critical of the TPP
negotiations and in particular the lack of transparency: "...the absence
of any rigorous and transparent assessment of the agreement before government
commitment is a critical failure in transparency." (p. 162). See <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-t/">Peter
Martin’s article in the SMH </a>and <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-h/">chapters
4 and 7 of the PC Report</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DFAT information sheet on TPP, and Médecins Sans Frontières' response: <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-k/">DFAT
has published a “fact” sheet </a>about the TPP ... MSF has issued a media
release in response. Pat Ranald is also preparing a response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Senate Inquiry Report, and AFTINET’s response: The report of the <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-u/">Senate
Inquiry into the Commonwealth’s Treaty Making Process </a>was released
yesterday. <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-o/">AFTINET’s
media release </a> basically argue that the report accurately describes
the problems but doesn’t go far enough in its recommendations to fix them. The
Greens have apparently issued a dissenting report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Human Rights statements: <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-b/">Human
rights experts in most of the TPP countries </a>have united to seek a human
rights evaluation of the TPP, following a statement by <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-n/">10 UN
human rights experts voicing concerns </a>over the impact of trade and
investment agreements on human rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Two opinion articles: <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-p/">Michael
Moore </a>wrote in the City News about ISDS and Ruth Lopert and Deborah
Gleeson wrote for the Canberra Times on <a href="http://techmail.technologymatters.com.au/t/r-l-ahjgtd-tyhhbltdj-x/">how
the TPP could drive us towards an American-style health system</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Helping Tackle Homelessness<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">ARCAYA,
Mariana C.; ARCAYA, Alyssa L.; SUBRAMANIAN, S. V.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Global
Health Action, [S.l.], v. 8, jun. 2015. ISSN 1654-9880<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Individuals
from different backgrounds, social groups, and countries enjoy different levels
of health. This article defines and distinguishes between unavoidable health
inequalities and unjust and preventable health inequities. We describe the
dimensions along which health inequalities are commonly examined, including
across the global population, between countries or states, and within
geographies, by socially relevant groupings such as race/ethnicity, gender,
education, caste, income, occupation, and more. Different theories attempt to explain
group-level differences in health, including psychosocial, material
deprivation, health behavior, environmental, and selection explanations.
Concepts of relative versus absolute; dose–response versus threshold;
composition versus context; place versus space; the life course perspective on
health; causal pathways to health; conditional health effects; and group-level
versus individual differences are vital in understanding health inequalities.
We close by reflecting on what conditions make health inequalities unjust, and
to consider the merits of policies that prioritize the elimination of health
disparities versus those that focus on raising the overall standard of health
in a population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">How
to obtain this article: <a href="http://bit.ly/1RRGUUI" target="_blank">click
here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Review</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Linden Farrer, Claudia Marinetti, Yoline</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Kuipers Cavaco, Caroline Costongs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Milbank Q. 2015 Jun; 93(2): 392–437</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Health inequalities are systematic differences in
health among social groups that are caused by unequal exposure to—and
distributions of—the social determinants of health (SDH). They are persistent
between and within countries despite action to reduce them. Advocacy is a means
of promoting policies that improve health equity, but the literature on how to
do so effectively is dispersed. The aim of this review is to synthesize the
evidence in the academic and gray literature and to provide a body of knowledge
for advocates to draw on to inform their efforts.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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briefing note briefly explains intersectionality and explores the potential of
an intersectional approach to reducing health inequalities.<br />
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is a way to think about and act upon social inequality and
discrimination. It offers a promising approach to these issues within
public policy and within public health. This briefing note introduces the
approach and explores the potential contribution of intersectionality to
reducing health inequalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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risk factors in Australia: how far have we travelled? Evidence from the ABS
National Health Survey series</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Elaine Baum and Julia Margaret Anaf; International Journal of Health Services
2015, Vol. 45(2) 353–362<a href="http://joh.sagepub.com/content/45/2/353.full.pdf+html">http://joh.sagepub.com/content/45/2/353.full.pdf+html</a><br />
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corporations (TNCs) are part of an economic system of global capitalism that
operates under a neoliberal regime underpinned by strong support from
international organisations such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank,
and most nation states. Although TNCs have grown in power and influence and
have had a significant impact on population health over the past three decades,
public health has not developed an integrated research agenda to study them.
This article outlines the shape of such an agenda and argues that it is vital
that research into the public health impact of TNCs be pursued and funded as a
matter of priority. The four areas of the agenda are: assessing the health and
equity impacts of TNCs; evaluating the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of government regulation to mitigate health and equity impacts of TNCs;
studying the work of activist groups and networks that highlight adverse
impacts of TNCs; and considering how regulation of capitalism could better
promote a healthier and more equitable corporate sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">While we agree that there is
much work to be done in reforming clinical services, a healthy population
can best be achieved by looking beyond health care, focusing on prevention,
acting on the underlying causes of poor health and working with sectors outside
of health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Social Determinants of
Health Advocacy Network (SDoHAN) acknowledges that access to safe, quality,
timely and appropriate health care is important but this must not come at the
expense of recognising the long-term gains that can be made by investing in
prevention. If the Government doesn’t recognise prevention as a central goal,
the <b>sustainability</b> of its clinical services will be undermined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Tasmania there is a
preoccupation with hospitals, not health. Focusing more on preventive and
population health can reduce the frustration that many doctors feel in being
unable to address the underlying cause of many of the health problems they
encounter among their patients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Members of the Social
Determinants of Health Advocacy Network (SDoHAN) work together to achieve
effective action on the social determinants of health in Tasmania. We believe
that all Tasmanians should have the opportunity to live a healthy life
regardless of their income, education, employment, gender, sexuality,
capabilities, cultural background, who they are or where they live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We take a keen interest in
both strategic and local level initiatives to improve the health of Tasmanians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are disappointed that the
Government has chosen to make the development of its strategic plan for
preventive health in Tasmania a secondary priority and has not devised a more
comprehensive strategy that integrates preventative health at all levels of the
system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whether the Government has any plans to undertake broad stakeholder engagement
or consultation in the development of its preventive health plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We offer the advice below to Government on how to make Tasmania the healthiest population in Australia by
2025.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Advocacy Network 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #009900; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Supporting
Tasmanians to be the healthiest population in Australia <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Whatever your preferred choice of
words, one thing is clear – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: GillSansMT; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Health starts long before illness</span></b><span style="color: #009900; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: GillSansMT; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> - <b>it starts in our
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Research shows that the houses we
live in, the transport we are able to access, the job we have or don’t have,
the social support we have around us and how much money we’ve got, have as much
impact on our health and wellbeing as our genes and behaviours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What is also clear is that not everyone in Tasmania has the same
opportunity to be healthy. This isn’t fair. All Tasmanians should be able to
make the choices that allow them to live a healthy life, regardless of their
income, where they live, social position, education, gender, abilities or
cultural background. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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health starts, not just where it ends. In Tasmania there is a preoccupation
with hospitals, not health. Hospitals should be a last resort not the first.<sup>1</sup>
It’s time to rethink health and include how to keep it, not just how to get it
back. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network (SDoHAN) calls for action on the
following priority areas to help Tasmanians become the healthiest population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prioritise the early years <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
early childhood period (0-6 years) is considered to be the most important
developmental phase throughout the lifespan. Healthy early child development
strongly influences obesity, mental health, heart disease, competence in
literacy and numeracy, and economic participation throughout life. Investment
in early childhood development will pay for itself many times over.<sup>2</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Tasmania we must do everything we can to give all children the best start in
life. We can do this by strengthening families and communities, providing comprehensive
support to families for the perinatal to three year period, building our public
education system, strengthening our aspirations for lifelong learning, and
reaching out to those who are at risk of falling behind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Build a strong primary health system <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The evidence is clear:
health systems oriented towards primary health achieve better health outcomes
for a lower overall cost than systems focused on specialist or tertiary care.
The international trend is to move away from hospital care towards more
community-based care.</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">1</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> Primary health works with people in the
community throughout their life course and is concerned with action on the
social determinants of health and a preventive approach. It uses local approaches
and multidisciplinary teams. In Tasmania we need to strengthen our regionally
based community health centres and ensure that they operate within a
comprehensive primary health care framework.</span></div>
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a government unit that works towards ‘Health for All Tasmanians’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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opportunity to be healthy requires leadership and engagement across the
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A social determinants approach recognises that
action outside of the health system is required to establish the conditions
that promote good health and wellbeing and reduce our dependence on hospitals
and health care services. We need to get different sectors working together towards
this common purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A sustainable government unit whose job it is to
provide leadership in this area is urgently needed. Such a unit would undertake
planning, build capacity and develop policies and programs that would give all
Tasmanians the opportunity to be healthy (i.e. <i>working towards health equity)</i>. This unit would ensure that the
goal of Tasmanians being the healthiest Australians is prioritised across all
public policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a social determinants of health approach throughout the health system<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The work of the Tasmanian
health system should be driven by a desire to give all Tasmanians the best
opportunity to be healthy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Every day our hospitals and health care providers see
patients with complex health needs that arise from a combination of biological,
psychological, social, economic and environmental factors. Many of these
patients are on a treadmill of treatment – presenting again and again to emergency
departments or other parts of the health care system with the same or related
problems – and costing millions of dollars. It is time to ‘break the cycle’ by
moving beyond an ineffective<i> ‘fix them up
and move them on’</i> model to a more comprehensive integrated<i> </i>model of care that recognises the
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their journey through the health care system and beyond, proactively engaging
services and supports along the way. It would involve identifying the
underlying reasons for poor health (such as inadequate housing, family
violence, poor education, unemployment, poor literacy, addiction and mental
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Policy Development; 2</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. WHO, Child Development, http://www.who.int/topics/child_development/en/;</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> 3.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Bassett, MT, 2006, ‘Health for All in
the 21<sup>st</sup> Century, AJPH,96(12):2089</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">; 4. Health Leads: https://healthleadsusa.org.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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came out of The Hothouse on Education. If you didn’t get to the forum last week
and would like to hear more about it visit: ABC Radio National's Life
Matters: </span><a href="http://abc.net.au/rn/lifematters" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">http://abc.net.au/rn/lifematters</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>GUEST
PRESENTER - Associate Professor Ashley Lucas, Director of the Prison Creative
Arts Project, (PCAP) Theatre & Drama Department , University of Michigan.
For more information about the great work of PCAP visit the websites below. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Declaration and Platform for Action and committed to prioritisation of women’s
empowerment and gender equality. Yet a recently released UN analysis1 shows
that violence against women persists at “alarmingly high levels”. Worldwide,
one in three women reports sexual or physical violence from a male partner at
some point in their lifetime, and such experiences have been linked with
harmful effects on health, including maternal morbidity, poor mental health,
and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.2 The UN report also contends that progress
towards gender equality has been slow.1 Effective and scalable interventions to
reduce intimate partner violence remain scarce, and questions remain about what
drives individual violence and why prevalence differs across settings and
countries. Lori Heise and Andreas Kotsadam’s study in The Lancet Global Health,
is thus very timely, and is a major advance in the understanding of worldwide
intimate partner violence. This analysis of data from 44 countries suggests
that gender inequality at the macro-level (ie, country-level) serves as a key
driver in women’s individual risk of violence and provides insight into why
prevalence of intimate partner violence varies across countries…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this article </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1IGe1vh">click here</a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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between gender inequality index and child mortality rates: a
cross-national study of 138 countries</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
Ethel Mary Brinda1, Anto P Rajkumar and Ulrika Enemark<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>Background</b><br />
Gender inequality weakens maternal health and harms children through many
direct and indirect pathways. Allied biological disadvantage and psychosocial
adversities challenge the survival of children of both genders. United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has recently developed a Gender Inequality
Index to measure the multidimensional nature of gender inequality.
The global impact of Gender Inequality Index on the child mortality rates
remains uncertain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We employed an ecological study to investigate the association between child
mortality rates and Gender Inequality Indices of 138 countries for which UNDP
has published the Gender Inequality Index. Data on child mortality rates
and on potential confounders, such as, per capita gross domestic product and
immunization coverage, were obtained from the official World Health
Organization and World Bank sources. We employed multivariate non-parametric
robust regression models to study the relationship between these variables.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Women in low and middle income countries (LMICs) suffer significantly more
gender inequality (p < 0.001). Gender Inequality Index (GII) was positively
associated with neonatal (β = 53.85; 95% CI 41.61-64.09), infant
(β = 70.28; 95% CI 51.93-88.64) and under five mortality rates (β = 68.14; 95%
CI 49.71-86.58), after adjusting for the effects of potential confounders (p < 0.001).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We have documented statistically significant positive associations between GII
and child mortality rates. Our results suggest that the initiatives to curtail
child mortality rates should extend beyond medical interventions and
should prioritize women’s rights and autonomy. We discuss major pathways
connecting gender inequality and child mortality. We present the
socio-economic problems, which sustain higher gender inequality and child
mortality in LMICs. We further discuss the potential solutions pertinent to
LMICs. Dissipating gender barriers and focusing on social well-being of
women may augment the survival of children of both genders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Scand J Public Health first published on May 21, 2015 <br />
<a href="http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/20/1403494815586327.abstract?papetoc"> http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/20/1403494815586327.abstract?papetoc</a>
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Home: The Right to Housing in Canada and Around the World:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/">http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the
argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health
interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and
we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and
explore implications. Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental
knowledge, reasoning ability, emotional self-regulation, and interactional
abilities, are critical components of health. Moreover, education is a
fundamental social determinant of health – an upstream cause of health.
Programs that close gaps in educational outcomes between low-income or racial
and ethnic minority populations and higher-income or majority populations are
needed to promote health equity. Public health policy makers, health
practitioners and educators, and departments of health and education can
collaborate to implement educational programs and policies for which systematic
evidence indicates clear public health benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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inequality: reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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is to say, there are vastly different stories to tell about a person’s health
depending on where they live, their level of education, and whether they are
rich or poor, etc. Monitoring the state of inequality in health takes into
account the current experiences of population subgroups, as well as the trends
of how health experiences in these subgroups have changed over time. This 2015<i>
</i>report<i> </i>demonstrates best practices in reporting the results of
health inequality monitoring, and introduces innovative ways for audiences to
explore inequality data. Interactive data visualization components –
including story-points, equity country profiles, maps and reference tables –
accompany the key messages and findings of this report, allowing users to
customize data displays and engage in benchmarking according to their
interests. A series of feature stories indicated that inequalities in
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health persist, despite having
narrowed over the past decade. There is still much progress to be made in
reducing inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
through equity-oriented policies, programmes and practices. Though the report
draws on data about reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in low-
and middle-income countries, the approach and underlying concepts can be widely
applied to any health topic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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report </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1J1Bt5Y">click here</a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Community is a bisexual anti-stigma campaign</span></b> by Rainbow Health
Ontario and the Researching for LGBTQ Health team. <a href="http://www.rainbowhealthontario.ca/bisexual-health/">http://www.rainbowhealthontario.ca/bisexual-health/</a></span></div>
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Health inequality monitoring eLearning module <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The <i>Health inequality monitoring</i> eLearning module is an overview
of health inequality monitoring, aiming to build theoretical and technical
capacity for health inequality monitoring across diverse settings and health
topics. This module introduces and explores the five general steps of
monitoring as they pertain to health inequality monitoring: selecting health
indicators and equity stratifiers, obtaining data, analysing data, reporting
results and implementing changes. A comprehensive applied example of health
inequality monitoring in the Philippines demonstrates how the concepts can be
applied in the context of low- and middle-income countries. This module is
presented in eight chapters, which are each followed by a number of quiz
questions and an application exercise. In each chapter, additional information
and examples are available to facilitate a more-thorough understanding of the
material. The entire module takes approximately four hours to complete, and is
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015: </span></b><a href="http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/">http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/</a><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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socio-familial and community inclusion and social participation of people with
disabilities, as well as their inclusion in occupations in daily life.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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collected through open interviews concerning the participants' life histories
and systematic observation. The sample was composed of ten individuals with
acquired or congenital disabilities living in the region covered by a Family
Health Center. The social conception of disability was the theoretical framework
used. Data were analyzed according to an interpretative reconstructive approach
based on Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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socio-familial and community inclusion of the study participants is conditioned
to the social determinants of health and present high levels of social
inequality expressed by difficult access to PHC and rehabilitation services, work
and income, education, culture, transportation and social participation.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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need to develop community-centered care programs in cooperation with PHC
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has worked for much of his career in the area of children and young people's
services and policy development. He is a committed advocate for young
people's rights. Having commenced his five year term in October 2014, Mark will
focus on the rights and interests of children, and the laws, policies and
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has had extensive experience in issues facing children and young people, having
worked with children from all types of backgrounds, including undertaking
significant work with vulnerable children. He has practical expertise in
child protection, child development, juvenile justice, children's services,
child care, disabilities, and early intervention and prevention services.
Mark has been a strong advocate for the importance of the social determinants
of health and wellbeing as a critical factor and consideration, in the
development of policy and service delivery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were developed. Everyone is welcome and it’s free. We encourage you to come
along if you can. <a href="http://thehothouse.net.au/the-forum/">http://thehothouse.net.au/the-forum/</a>
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promotion and action on the SDOH has taken a back-seat for too long. Do you
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this area ought to be – what’s needed to promote health and wellbeing; how can
we strengthen the people’s health to keep them out of the health care system;
what do you think we ought to be doing in health promotion and when it comes to
action on the social determinants of health? Without your input, we can’t
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conversation about <i>What’s needed to improve health – Our Key Messages</i> from <b>12pm-1.30pm Thursday
21 May in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie</b>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Link in from Hobart, Burnie or Launceston. Please RSVP by 19<sup> </sup>May
and direct any enquiries about video conference sites to Rebecca Essex via
email <a href="mailto:rebecca.essex@dhhs.tas.gov.au" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">rebecca.essex@dhhs.tas.gov.au</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearings recently. Submissions and transcripts can be found here: <a href="http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/Joint/PHC1.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/Joint/PHC1.htm</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mental Health and Employment: A Community Discussion.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> How can workplaces, government and community support
wellbeing in the workplace for people with mental ill health/ illness and their
carers? Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Rd, Thursday 4th of June 10.00-
1.00pm Free Event, lunch provided, RSVP to <a href="mailto:sarahb@colony47.com.au"><span style="color: blue;">sarahb@colony47.com.au</span></a> or
ph: 62141355 by Monday 1st of June.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transition</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/355769/Briefing1b_Home_to_school_health_inequalities.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/355769/Briefing1b_Home_to_school_health_inequalities.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hothouse is a unique collaboration that demonstrates the power of creative
thinking to explore and respond to issues that impact on Tasmania’s educational
outcomes. Find out more: <a href="http://thehothouse.net.au/"><span style="color: blue;">http://thehothouse.net.au/</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bottom Line Blog wants you</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (to
contribute)! Do you or someone you know have a story to tell about living on a
low income. The Bottom Line Blog is up and running and looking for content:
photos, videos, words, artwork ... it can be in almost any form and we're happy
to help if you need a hand. Just visit <a href="http://tascoss.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=db23a6b53535f285c9da58dd7&id=6e52cf674c&e=7d1870925a" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">the blog</span></a> for more
information and don't forget to like our <a href="http://tascoss.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=db23a6b53535f285c9da58dd7&id=e508d572bf&e=7d1870925a" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Facebook page</span></a> and help
us get the word out. Our intrepid blogger Deb and Blog Master Pauline were
recently on ABC morning radio spruiking the site. You can listen to their
interview <a href="http://tascoss.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db23a6b53535f285c9da58dd7&id=3331291b47&e=7d1870925a" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. For more information
contact Pauling Marsh at TasCOSS on 62310755.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Among Future High-Cost Users of Health Care: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2815%2900082-3/pdf"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2815%2900082-3/pdf</span></a> See
also: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/poverty-linked-to-future-high-health-care-costs-1.3065822"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/poverty-linked-to-future-high-health-care-costs-1.3065822</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Life Permaculture are offering a fully sponsored place on an
upcoming Permaculture Design Course.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> It’s
a part time course based in Hobart so ideally this will suit someone who is in
the region or able to stay on the weekends that the course is running. <a href="http://goodlifepermaculture.com.au/permaculture-design-course-full-scholarship-on-offer/"><span style="color: blue;">http://goodlifepermaculture.com.au/permaculture-design-course-full-scholarship-on-offer/</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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homelessness</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: Three-year
program, Journey to Social Inclusion, led to 75% of participants staying in
stable housing, and an 80% drop in need for health services. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/30/experimental-victorian-scheme-could-virtually-eradicate-homelessness"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/30/experimental-victorian-scheme-could-virtually-eradicate-homelessness</span></a>.
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17 June 2015, 11-12:30, </b>venue and details to be advised.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘universalism’ and policy ‘targeting’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The recognition that certain characteristics (such
as poverty, disadvantage or membership of marginalised social or cultural
groups) can make individuals more susceptible to illness has reignited interest
in how to combine universal programmes and policies with ones
targeted at specific groups. However, universalism and targeting are used
in different ways for different purposes. In this glossary, we define different
types and approaches to universalism and targeting. We anticipate that greater
clarity in relation to what is meant by universalism and targeting will
lead to a more nuanced debate and practice in this area. Visit: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/8675091/A_glossary_of_policy_frameworks_the_many_forms_of_universalism_and_policy_targeting_">https://www.academia.edu/8675091/A_glossary_of_policy_frameworks_the_many_forms_of_universalism_and_policy_targeting_</a>
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<b>2. Creating change in government to address the social determinants of
health: how can efforts be improved?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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evidence base for the impact of social determinants of health has been
strengthened considerably in the last decade. Increasingly, the public health
field is using this as a foundation for arguments and actions to change
government policies. The Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, alongside
recommendations from the 2010 Marmot Review into health inequalities in the UK
(which we refer to as the ‘Fairness Agenda’), go beyond advocating for the
redesign of individual policies, to shaping the government structures and
processes that facilitate the implementation of these policies. In doing so,
public health is drawing on recent trends in public policy towards ‘joined up
government’, where greater integration is sought between government
departments, agencies and actors outside of government</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 8.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. In full: the four volumes of the Review of Mental
Health Programmes and Services, which the Government has been sitting on for
five months: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>4. HEALTH WEALTH & THE NEW ECONOMIC - An agenda for a
healthier world</b> – This Report is based on the papers and discussions on
health and the New Economics, which formed part of the proceedings of The Other
Economic Summit (TOES) 1985. The Report contains more than 40 specific
suggestions for action as part of an Agenda for a Healthier World, in which
health creation and wealth creation will be recognised as aspects of each
other.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. Law as a Tool for Addressing Social Determinants of
Health<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite the fact that equality and equal access to health
care are core Canadian values, the reality is that Canadians' health is
overwhelmingly dictated by the unequal living conditions they experience – the
social determinants of health. This chapter examines law as a tool for
translating our understanding of health inequities into government action to
address social determinants of health. The chapter provides a brief review of
the findings and recommendations of some of the major Canadian reports in this
area, followed by a review of international and domestic human rights
guarantees that can be invoked to challenge health inequity in Canada. The
final section examines the obstacles facing determinant of health-related
claims, in particular, the continued reliance by Canadian courts on the
outmoded distinction between positive and negative rights. The author concludes
by suggesting that, rather than focusing on biomedical and lifestyle
initiatives, social injustices must be addressed, and that moving forward on
determinants of health requires action by all branches of government, including
the courts. <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319200">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319200</a>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>6. The International Journal
of Child, Youth and Family Studies (IJCYFS)</b> is a peer reviewed, open
access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to
scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children,
youth, families and their communities. Vol 6, No 2 (2015): International
Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies. <b>Special Issue on the Political
Economy of Children’s Health</b>. <a href="http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijcyfs">http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijcyfs</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>7. Don't smoke, don't be
poor, read before signing: linking health literacy and legal capability.</b>
For more information and a link to the paper, please visit our <a href="http://plelearningexchange.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe1c8af60327208a66d700d91&id=8a84c2f8b5&e=d980b3d610" target="_blank">PLExchange blog</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>8. One and a half billion people live on less than $1.25
per day: </b><a href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/17/pove-a17.html?view=mobilearticle">http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/17/pove-a17.html?view=mobilearticle</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A new study by the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
reports that the number of people globally living on less than $1.25 per day is
likely to be far higher than the already staggering 1.2 billion estimated by
the World Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“There could be as many as a quarter more people living on
less than $1.25 a day than current estimates suggest, because they have been
missed out of surveys,” the report notes, suggesting that the total number of
people living in extreme poverty could be undercounted by as much as 350
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“understated by as much as a quarter,” then more than 2.5 billion people, or
over a third of the world’s population, survive on less than $2 per day.</span></div>
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the World Socialist Web Site that “the poor quality of the data on
poverty, child and maternal mortality” are some of the report’s most
significant findings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If one were to define poverty as living on less than $5 per
day, over four billion people, that is, two-thirds of the human population,
qualify as impoverished, according to World Bank estimates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meanwhile the world’s multimillionaires and billionaires,
their stock portfolios soaring, are splurging on supercars, yachts and luxury
apartments in record numbers. While the monetary policies pursued by the
world’s central banks inject unimaginable amounts of wealth into the coffers of
a parasitic financial aristocracy, the bulk of humanity struggles to survive
amid poverty, austerity and war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In March, Forbes reported that the combined net worth
of the world’s billionaires hit a new high in 2015 of $7.05 trillion. Since
2000, the total wealth of the world’s billionaires has increased eight-fold.
The magazine reported, “Despite plunging oil prices and a weakened euro, the
ranks of the world’s wealthiest defied global economic turmoil and expanded
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population will exceed that owned by the bottom 99 percent by next year,
according to the Oxfam charity.</span></div>
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semiannual World Economic Outlook, where it warned that there would be no
return to the rates of economic growth that prevailed before the 2008 financial
crash for an indefinite period.</span></div>
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and huge amounts of cash being hoarded by major corporations internationally,
private investment has plummeted in the six years since the official end of the
post-financial-crisis recession. The report documents the single-minded focus
of governments, central banks and policy makers in general on the further
enrichment of the global financial elite at the expense of the world’s
productive forces and the vast bulk of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sheer levels of inequality across the globe, expressed
in dilapidated infrastructure, the assault on the living standards of workers
and youth, and the erosion of democratic rights, themselves inhibit serious
studies of poverty, as demonstrated by the ODI’s report.</span></div>
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functioning systems to register births or deaths, making accurate counts of
child mortality and maternal mortality impossible. Twenty-six countries have
not collected data on child mortality since 2009. According to current
estimates, anywhere from 220,000 to 400,000 women died during childbirth in
2014. Fewer than one in five births occur in countries with complete civil
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extrapolate from old data, or make assumptions about the relations between
other data sets. The most up-to-date estimate of people living in extreme
poverty was published almost four years ago. Only 28 of 49 countries in
sub-Saharan Africa had a household income survey between 2006 and 2013. Botswana’s
poverty estimates are based on a household survey from 1993.</span></div>
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disagreements over the poverty threshold. Some nongovernmental organizations
have set their own national poverty lines. For instance, in Thailand, the
official national poverty line is $1.75 per day and the poverty rate is 1.81
percent. However, urban community groups have assessed the poverty line to be
$4.74 per day, bumping the country’s poverty rate to nearly half the population
at 41.64 percent.</span></div>
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on research of any kind, halting studies, ruining infrastructure, and
destroying records. The vast sums of money spent on war dwarf those needed to
significantly reduce social misery. The United States alone spent $496 billion
on defense last year, while, according to the United Nations Food and
Agriculture organization, “the world only needs 30 billion dollars a year to
eradicate the scourge of hunger.”</span></div>
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violence stand as a damning indictment of the capitalist system, the sole aim
of which is to enrich the financial oligarchy that dominates society at the
expense of the great majority of humanity.</span></div>
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resource may interest you.... <b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Communicating
the social determinants of health: guidelines for common messaging:</span></b> <a href="http://ccsdh.ca/images/uploads/Communicating_the_Social_Determinants_of_Health.pdf">http://ccsdh.ca/images/uploads/Communicating_the_Social_Determinants_of_Health.pdf</a>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Tasmanian Early Years Foundation is transitioning
to a not for profit organisation at arm’s length from government. As part of
this process and because you have been involved with the work of the Foundation
we invite you to attend one of three regional forums to be held on 27, 28 and
29 May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ongoing support of the Tasmania’s young children and the early years community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you would like to attend this Forum please <a href="http://www.earlyyears.org.au/events/forum_registration" target="_blank">Click
Here</a> to complete the registration form.</span></div>
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6232 7468</span></div>
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</span><a href="mailto:rodney.brydon@dpac.tas.gov.au" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">rodney.brydon@dpac.tas.gov.au</a></div>
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Benjamin<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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am facilitating a psychotherapy workshop in Hobart in June. Please see attached
flyer and pass on to others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear Primary
Health Care Strategic Advisory Council member,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you may be aware, the Australian
Government has finally announced the
successful applications in the Primary Health Network (PHN) tender process. <b>TML’s
application to establish the Tasmanian PHN has been successful.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TML’s media release responding to the
announcement is available on our website <a href="http://www.tasmedicarelocal.com.au/news/tml-selected-establish-tasmanias-primary-health-network">here</a>.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Government is yet to advise
exactly which programs and services it will fund the Tasmanian PHN to deliver
from 1 July. Phil will be in touch when more information comes to hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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video on gender equity, welfare regimes and health:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/axLP6gcVtD" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">youtu.be/L98_NaNIzGc</a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#.VRiUxn36zUI.twitter" target="_blank">http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#.VRiUxn36zUI.twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Politics as if People Mattered - </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And other resources – Politics of Health
Group - <a href="http://pohg.org.uk/support/publications.html">http://pohg.org.uk/support/publications.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Income inequality and health: A causal
review<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Kate
E. Pickett, Richard G. Wilkinson</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Social Science & Medicine, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">128(2015),
316-326</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published:
<b>March 2015</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #558ed5;">Abstract </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There
is a very large literature examining income inequality in relation to health.
Early reviews came to different interpretations of the evidence, though a large
majority of studies reported that health tended to be worse in more unequal
societies. More recent studies, not included in those reviews, provide
substantial new evidence. Our purpose in this paper is to assess whether or not
wider income differences play a causal role leading to worse health. We
conducted a literature review within an epidemiological causal framework and
inferred the likelihood of a causal relationship between income inequality and
health (including violence) by considering the evidence as a whole. The body of
evidence strongly </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">suggests
that income inequality affects population health and wellbeing. The major
causal criteria of temporality, biological plausibility, consistency and lack
of alternative explanations are well supported. Of the small minority of
studies which find no association, most can be explained by income inequality
being measured at an inappropriate scale, the inclusion of mediating variables
as controls, the use of subjective rather than objective measures of health, or
follow up periods which are too short. The evidence that large income
differences have damaging health and social consequences is strong and in most
countries inequality is increasing. Narrowing the gap will improve the health
and wellbeing of populations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Key Points: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Evidence that income inequality is associated with worse health is
reviewed. It meets established epidemiological and other scientific criteria
for causality. The causal processes may extend to violence and other problems
with social gradients. Reducing income inequality will improve population
health and wellbeing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #558ed5;">How to obtain this article </span></b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://bit.ly/1Bp593H">click
here</a><span style="color: #222222;">. (Email me if you can’t access this and
would like it)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-70137751812081216622015-03-06T07:15:00.001+11:002015-03-06T07:15:36.817+11:00Let’s have a conversation about the language of health<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let’s have a
conversation about the language of health<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
conversation about health - where health starts - in our everyday lives<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let’s stop and have a serious look at
what it is that really keeps us healthy or makes us sick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we’re not just talking about
whether we did some exercise or if we quit smoking - we’re talking about the
things that make up our neighbourhoods, communities, as well as a the bigger
wider world – the factors that influence the choices we are able to make. Think
about the things that you are exposed to in your everyday life – that might
cause stress and make you more susceptible to ill health, or factors that keep
stressors at bay and protect your health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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conversation about health – where health starts – in our everyday lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Health is influenced by lots of factors
and we want to find out what Tasmanians from all walks of life have to say
about health and its determinants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This project is being run by the
Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network – Tasmania and is being
undertaken by Miriam Vandenberg (Herzfeld) & Michael Bentley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We’ll be running a series of focus
groups in April 2015 and are looking for people willing to volunteer about two
hours of their time to be involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you would like to participate in
this study please contact Miriam or Michael for more information: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">socialdeterminantsofhealthtas@gmail.com</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This project has
ethics approval from the Tasmanian Social Sciences Human Research Ethics
Committee.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101775714454728731.post-75379926662293173612015-03-04T21:26:00.001+11:002015-03-04T21:27:32.165+11:00Useful information with links relating to SDOH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">Higher levels of educational attainment are
associated with improved health outcomes: </span><a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/lookup/4704.0Chapter365Oct+2010" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/lookup/4704.0Chapter365Oct+2010</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">The Health Impacts of Education – a review: </span><a href="http://www.publichealth.ie/files/file/Health%20Impacts%20of%20Education.pdf" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.publichealth.ie/files/file/Health%20Impacts%20of%20Education.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">The Effect of Education on Health – Cross
Country Evidence: </span><a href="http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/2011/RAND_WR864.pdf" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/2011/RAND_WR864.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">What are the effects of education on health?
MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON HEALTH AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: PROCEEDINGS
OF THE COPENHAGEN SYMPOSIUM – © OECD 2006 </span><a href="https://www1.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/37425753.pdf" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">https://www1.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/37425753.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">The Effects of Education on Health (National
Bureau of Economic Research): </span><a href="http://www.nber.org/digest/mar07/w12352.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">http://www.nber.org/digest/mar07/w12352.html</a></div>
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group of Australian academics and non-government organisations, interested in
the health of the Australian population, to do a health impact assessment (HIA)
on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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released today </a>has shown the TPP could impact on the government's ability
to introduce new health initiatives, like the plain packaging legislation. It
could stop new food labelling laws, and keep medicines costing more for longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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middle-income countries</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">: series of information sheets to empower
communities and strengthen health systems: Download this publication: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1DKBSob" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">click here</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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Framework for Public Health:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.ncchpp.ca/docs/2014_SanteMentale_EN.pdf">http://www.ncchpp.ca/docs/2014_SanteMentale_EN.pdf</a>
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local setting: Addressing the social inequities in health in a Norwegian
municipality:</span></b> <a href="https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/8218">https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/8218</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now
available: 30 minute film from the Third People's Health Assembly (Cape Town,
July 2012) is now online: <a href="http://youtu.be/Kmm5Hj0HNWA" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/Kmm5Hj0HNWA</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seventh edition of Society at a Glance, the biennial OECD overview of social
indicators, this report addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence
on social well-being and its trends. It updates some indicators included in the
previous editions published since 2001 and introduces several new ones; in
total: 25 indicators. It includes data for the 34 OECD Member countries and where
available data for key partners (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and
South Africa) and for other G20 countries (Argentina and Saudi Arabia). This
report features a special chapter on the social impact of the recent crisis
(Chapter 1) and provides a guide to help readers understand the structure of
OECD social indicators (Chapter 2). All indicators are available as a web book
and e-book on OECD iLibrary, as is the related database.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Health Equity Practice</span></b> , created by the National Association of
County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Health Equity and Social Justice
Committee, aims to invite dialogue among local health departments and their
community allies around the social inequities underlying health inequities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all policies initiatives: evidence from interviews with key informants in
Sweden, Quebec and South Australia:</span></b> <a href="http://bit.ly/1BCKBey">click here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inspired by the hugely successful staging of last year’s
Indigenous Conferences in Cairns, the event organizers are now calling for
papers for the five exciting events being launched this month with the closing date of submitting paper on February
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 2015 Indigenous Men’s and Indigenous Women’s Conferences
will be held in Darwin on the 12th – 14th of September. Similarly, papers are
also being called for the Indigenous Board of Directors Conference scheduled
for the 19th – 21st of October and the 2015 National Indigenous Domestic
Violence Conference to be held on 28th – 30th of October respectively. Both
October events will be held at the Mercure Gold Coast Resort.</span></div>
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Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition</span></b> is NSW freelance writer El
Gibbs, whose essay, “A place to call home: housing security and mental health”,
will be published by Inside Story.<br />
<a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2015/01/30/a-place-to-call-home-the-winning-entry-in-gavin-mooney-memorial-essay-competition/">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2015/01/30/a-place-to-call-home-the-winning-entry-in-gavin-mooney-memorial-essay-competition/</a><br /><br />
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interventions in Canada that have contributed to a reduction in health
inequalities<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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inequalities in health - differences in health status according to social
class – persist, despite a significant decline in mortality over the past
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more health problems, because they are exposed to greater risks much earlier in life. If we can act upon
these inequalities early on, we can influence the health of these individuals over a long period of
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has lots of links and reading material:</span></b> <a href="http://lists.lib.plymouth.ac.uk/lists/B76FD1A5-654F-B906-4B80-55BE7A1A4765.html">http://lists.lib.plymouth.ac.uk/lists/B76FD1A5-654F-B906-4B80-55BE7A1A4765.html</a>
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health: A causal review </span></b>Kate E. Pickett, Richard G. Wilkinson (email
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abstract: </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There
is a very large literature examining income inequality in relation to health.
Early reviews came to different interpretations of the evidence, though a large
majority of studies reported that health tended to be worse in more unequal
societies. More recent studies, not included in those reviews, provide substantial
new evidence. Our purpose in this paper is to assess whether or not wider
income differences play a causal role leading to worse health. We conducted a
literature review within an epidemiological causal framework and inferred the
likelihood of a causal relationship between income inequality and health
(including violence) by considering the evidence as a whole. The body of
evidence strongly suggests that income inequality affects population health and
wellbeing. The major causal criteria of temporality, biological plausibility,
consistency and lack of alternative explanations are well supported. Of the
small minority of studies which find no association, most can be explained by
income inequality being measured at an inappropriate scale, the inclusion of
mediating variables as controls, the use of subjective rather than objective
measures of health, or follow up periods which are too short. The evidence that
large income differences have damaging health and social consequences is strong
and in most countries inequality is increasing. Narrowing the gap will improve
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scientific criteria for causality.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watkins, Kevin; The Lancet. Volume 384, Issue 9961, 20
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shortly before his death, Mahatma Gandhi offered a useful
reflection that helps to cut through some of the complexity surrounding debates
about equity. “Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest person you may
have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be any use
to them.” It’s a simple but compelling guide for policy makers concerned with
combating extreme inequality. Something of the same spirit underpins the report
of the High Level Panel established by the UN Secretary General to make
recommendations for the post-2015 development agenda. Going beyond the
identification of universal goals, the report calls for “a focus on the poorest
and most marginalised” and a commitment to “leave no one behind” (panel). This
approach is in-keeping with other work on the post-2015 agenda, including the
Global Sustainable Development Report.2 Far more than the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)—which were largely neutral on the issue of
inequality—the High Level Panel report includes a wide-ranging social justice
agenda. If adopted by governments and backed by national policy commitments and
a new global partnership, the Panel’s agenda could put exclusion, inequality,
and marginalisation at the centre of the post-2015 development framework. <a href="http://bit.ly/1AWR4Qb">click here</a></span></div>
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Intellectual Disabilities Jan 2015, 28, 22–32; Article first published online:
22 DEC 2014</span></div>
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Despite awareness of the health inequalities experienced by people with
intellectual disability, their health status remains poor. Inequalities in
health outcomes are manifest in higher morbidity and rates of premature death.
Contributing factors include the barriers encountered in accessing and
receiving highquality health care. Aims: This paper outlines health
inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disability and focuses on
the opportunities medical education provides to address these. Strategies to
ensure that health professional education is inclusive of and relevant to
people with disabilities are highlighted. Conclusions: The barriers experienced
by people with intellectual disabilities to the receipt of high-quality health
care include the attitudes, knowledge and skills of doctors. Improving medical
education to ensure doctors are better equipped is one strategy to address
these barriers. Improving health enhances quality of life, enables engagement
and optimizes opportunities to participate in and contribute to the social and
economic life of communities. <a href="http://bit.ly/1E4DDvZ">click here</a>.</span></div>
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Zelinsky; World Medical & Health Policy, Volume 6, Issue 4, pages 483-492</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Abstract: </b>We are
concerned that providing insurance for the previously uninsured will be seen as
a panacea for resolving health disparities, for the social environment makes a
tremendous difference in health outcomes. A careful examination of the factors
involved in the social determinants of health shows that health insurance plays
only a small role in alleviating health disparities. In this commentary, we
highlight the complexity of the problem of the social determinants of health
and health disparities in the United States by comparing two neighborhoods in
Baltimore City and by examining hypertension and mental health disorders. <a href="http://bit.ly/1y59lF7">click here</a></span></div>
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of underlying causes – economic ranking and health inequality,</span></b> Social
Science & Medicine (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.008. Paper
available on request – please email us if you can’t access it. Shared by
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2005 have helped to reveal the strong relationships between economic inequality
and poor health outcomes in affluent nations. Their initial findings are
reminiscent of the early evidence that smoking among groups of doctors
increased the likelihood of members of each group dying of lung cancer. The
strong correlation between smoking and cancer was understood long before a
specific cause was clearly outlined. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this paper (Pickett and Wilkinson 2015), published ten
year after the initial announcement of their findings, the authors bring
together the beginnings of a case of there being plausible underlying
biological and related casual explanations for why people in more economically
unequal affluent countries suffer worse health. They suggest that ‘Inequality
is increasing in most regions of the world, rapidly in most rich countries over
the past three decades’. However, income inequality has increased much faster
in the UK and USA than in most other affluent nations and it has fallen in some
countries (Dorling, 2014). To continue reading....view online or email us for
the article.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Launch of Green Paper – Delivering Safe and Sustainable Clinical
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Message from the Minister for Health <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I have released the Green Paper into the future of
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s an important step in our journey of making better care
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I move around the community I hear from patients, their
families and carers about how much respect and admiration they have for the
staff who work in our health system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also hear many ideas for making it better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That’s why I announced reforms this year – <i>One State, One
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can provide a brief update on how other aspects of the
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Creation
of a single statewide Tasmanian Health Service by 1 July 2015 – preparations
underway and on-track for commencement on time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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new Health Council of Tasmania to provide expert clinical and consumer advice
on health reform – Chaired by Denise Fassett, it was announced this week and
has met for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Green Paper I’ve released today describes the challenges
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Central to our reform plans is the development of a Clinical
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We all want to have services located near where we live and,
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complex, high-risk services in all locations. It is not safe and it is
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our job is to make these hard decisions about how we balance
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I urge all Tasmanians with an interest in health service
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you do so, please bear in mind the following:</span></div>
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Green Paper isn’t about saving money; it’s about getting better health outcomes
for all Tasmanians. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -1cm;">No
hospitals will close and every Tasmanian community will have access to better
care. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -1cm;">It’s
about shifting the conversation from one about better access to care to one
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The release of the Green Paper will be followed in the New
Year by consultation, including with Tasmanian communities and with the health
sector over the next two months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More details of forums and meetings will be released in
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Submissions will be considered before a final White Paper on
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Green Paper is located at <a href="http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/onehealthsystem">www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/onehealthsystem</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your continuing work for the benefit of the
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Michael Ferguson</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/intranet/news/december_2014/green_paper_video">Minister’s
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For more
information on the <i>One State, One Health System, Better Outcomes</i> reform
package please email <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:onehealthsystem@dhhs.tas.gov.au">onehealthsystem@dhhs.tas.gov.au</a></span><span style="color: #434342;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">2. Let’s have a
conversation about the language of health - </span></b><span style="color: red;">a
conversation about health - where health starts - in our everyday lives</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Health is influenced by lots of things & we want to find
out what Tasmanians from all walks of life have to say about their health &
its determinants. In 2015, the Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network -
Tasmania will oversee a project that will involve talking to people in the
community about how they understand the language of social determinants of
health (SDOH) - the language that they use and is meaningful to them. </span></div>
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determinants of health” is not likely to be someone who is at risk from
them...We need a language we can all understand, and we need to hear from those
who are first in the queue to be harmed</i></b>.” (Senior, T)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The project will help in unpacking a language we can all
understand, which will assist us to better engage across the range of sectors
and disciplines that are implicated in the SDOH. The project will present key
learnings about the language of SDOH, which may contribute to enhanced
community engagement and more empathetic practice. It will explore how
community insights on SDOH can enhance advocacy efforts of civil society, as
well as lobbyists working in the scientific space, to influence upstream policy
change. Lastly, it will make recommendations about the language of SDOH, and
compare findings to the work of others in this area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We would like to hear from anyone who would like to be
involved in the development of this project. If you have ideas to contribute as
we plan for its implementation in 2015, please contact </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Miriam : <a href="mailto:miriam_herzfeld@internode.on.net">miriam_herzfeld@internode.on.net</a> or Michael : <a href="mailto:Michael.Bentley@utas.edu.au">Michael.Bentley@utas.edu.au</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Lifeline Tasmania is opening its 2015
intake for volunteers in the Hobart region wanting to become a Telephone Crisis
Supporter on the </span><span style="color: #f5a417; font-size: 11pt;">13 11 14</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> crisis line. <o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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extensive training, make a commitment to shifts and meet further selection
criteria. This is to ensure volunteers are confident, skilled and able to
provide support to Lifeline’s Callers in their time of emotional distress and
crisis. If you’re interested, this type of volunteering will be very rewarding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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during business hours.</span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- Rehospitalization Rates Highest for Poorest
Neighborhoods </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;">(shared
by<b> </b>N.J. Davy Paramedic, Ambulance Tasmania -
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/835787">http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/835787</a>
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charity</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathycrowe/2014/12/socks-are-not-enough-social-justice-lies-upstream-charity#.VImkSEh7z-4.twitter">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathycrowe/2014/12/socks-are-not-enough-social-justice-lies-upstream-charity#.VImkSEh7z-4.twitter</a>
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causes of poor health</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watch
the video: <a href="http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/wealthgap">http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/wealthgap</a>
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Doctor Makes Me Sick</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.liv.ac.uk/heseltine-institute/policy-provocations/doctor-makes-me-sick/">http://www.liv.ac.uk/heseltine-institute/policy-provocations/doctor-makes-me-sick/</a>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/inequality-hurts-economic-growth.htm">http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/inequality-hurts-economic-growth.htm</a>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><b>-</b> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HealthyPolicies/~3/vTDgBRFzAWU/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -18pt;">‘But
they just can’t kill the beast’: the ongoing neoliberal plague</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In
this guest post, <a href="http://www.healthypolicies.com/contributors/#Ronald Labonte" target="_blank">Ronald Labonté</a> traces the history of neoliberalism
through structural adjustment programs, the Great Recession and into current
Austerity Agendas. Labont é examines why neoliberalism continues to dominate
economic agendas and what types of policy messages are needed to combat the
resulting health plagues. This post is cross-posted at <a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/node/45473" target="_blank">Global Health Watch</a>
in support of the <a href="http://www.healthypolicies.com/2014/11/global-health-watch-4-critique-and-hope-for-a-healthier-world/" target="_blank">latest alternative world health report</a>. Labonté holds
a Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of
Population Health, and is Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of
Ottawa; and in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University of South
Australia. </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Committee on Health – Interim Report now available</span> (we put in a
submission and appeared before the Committee)</span></div>
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Committee on Preventative Health Care – please submit<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We prepared a submission to this Committee last time and
will probably do so again. If you would like to contribute please get in touch.
The deadline is Monday 16 February 2015. For the terms of reference and further
information: <a href="http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/Joint/PHC1.htm">http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/Joint/PHC1.htm</a>
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Rethink Mental Health Project CSO Consultation <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We invite you to the Southern Rethink Mental Health Project
CSO Consultation. This consultation will be held on the 15 December 2014, 1pm –
3pm, Hockey Function Centre, 19 Bell Street, Newtown. (Please contact the
Mental Health Council to find out about consultations in other parts of the
state).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you may be aware, the Rethink Mental Health Project is
aimed at providing an independent analysis of the current mental health
services being provided in Tasmania, and the gaps and barriers that exist
within the sector. The information gathered in this analysis will guide future
system reform and investment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The questions that will be asked at the consultation, as
well as a more detailed overview of the Rethink Mental Health Project, are in
the Discussion paper -<a href="http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/173484/DP-2014-10-10_Final.pdf">http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/173484/DP-2014-10-10_Final.pdf</a>
. We would appreciate your consideration of this document prior to the meeting,
keeping in mind that not all areas will be covered during consultation.
Participants will be provided with information on further involvement in the
Project following the group consultation.</span></div>
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by the 12th December 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jade Standaloft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P 03 6224 9222 | |W <a href="http://www.mhct.org/">www.mhct.org</a>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recommendations towards a Global Convention to protect and promote healthy
diets<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This set of recommendations (available in English, Spanish
or French) towards a Global Convention to protect and promote healthy diets has
been developed to encourage policy makers to build on the work of the UN to
combat obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ten years after the launch of the WHO Global Strategy on
Diet Physical Activity and Health, no country has succeeded in significantly
reversing the rising tide of obesity or diabetes. Cardiovascular diseases are
rapidly increasing in many lower middle-income countries. Change is urgently
needed.</span></div>
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‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding programs<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When people involved in children’s feeding programs were
asked to describe them, without exception they were described using phrases
that reflected the perception of ‘wonderfulness’. This paper critically
analyses the ‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding programs by examining the
language used to describe these programs, and the features of a ‘wonderful’
program through an analysis of a multi-site, qualitative case study of nine
diverse programs in Atlantic Canada. When participants justified their comments
about the ‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding programs, they did so based
upon five perceptions of program strengths: enhanced family coping; providing
good food and nutrition; socializing and making friends; behaving well in school;
and volunteerism. We suggest that programs can be designed to be innately
‘wonderful’ if they are community- and charity-based, support a noble cause
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donors and volunteers, and provide a direct service to children apart from
their families. We challenge health promoters to beware of the ‘wonderful’
program; its ‘wonderfulness’ may actually be masking unintended negative
impacts upon its participants.</span></div>
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of Poverty<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Health at a
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This third edition of Health at a Glance: Europe
presents a set of key indicators related to health status, determinants of
health, health care resources and activities, quality of care, access to care,
and health expenditure and financing in 35 European countries, including the 28
European Union member states, four candidate countries and three EFTA
countries. The selection of indicators is based largely on the European Core
Health Indicators (ECHI) shortlist, a set of indicators that has been developed
to guide the reporting of health statistics in the European Union. This is
complemented by additional indicators on quality of care, access to care and
health expenditure, building on the OECD expertise in these areas. Compared
with the previous edition, this third edition includes a greater number of ECHI
indicators, reflecting progress in the availability of comparable data in the
areas of non-medical determinants of health and access to care. It also
includes a new chapter dedicated to access to care, including selected
indicators on financial access, geographic access and timely access. </span></div>
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Inequalities and the 1% - Wolfson Annual Lecture 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Wolfson Research Institute welcomed Professor Danny Dorling to deliver the
Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing's Annual Lecture
'Health Inequalities and the 1%' on Wednesday 19 November 2014.</span></div>
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Report 2014/15 - Wages and income inequality<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 2014/15 edition examines the link between wages and
inequality at the household level. It shows that wages constitute the largest
single source of income for households with at least one member of working age
in most countries and points to changes in wages and paid employment as key
factors underlying recent trends in inequality. The report also considers wage
gaps between certain groups, such as those between women and men, migrants and
nationals, and workers in the informal and formal economy.<br />
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Inequality can be addressed through policies that affect wage distribution
directly or indirectly, as well as through fiscal redistribution. However,
increasing inequality in the labour market places a heavier burden on efforts
to reduce inequality through taxes and transfers. The report thus emphasizes
the need for combined policy action that includes minimum wages, strengthened
collective bargaining, interventions to eliminate wage gaps, the promotion of paid
employment and redistribution through taxes and transfers.</span></div>
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Principles, and the Practice of Health Equity<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A compilation of training resources for community health
care service providers in the Champlain region</span></div>
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Remote Australians face more health care barriers</span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People living in outer regional or very remote areas of
Australia were more likely to face barriers to accessing health care compared
with people living in major cities. <a href="http://mill.cha.org.au/site.php?id=2240" title="Regional and Remote">Click
here </a>to read more. </span></div>
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good life: the role of natural supports in recovery from mental illness <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anglicare Tasmania, Social Action Research Centre (SARC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One in two Australians will experience mental illness at
some point in their lives. Many, however, will live in recovery. This research
explores the lived experience of people recovering from mental illness across
Tasmania and asks them how natural supports helped them to reclaim their lives.
Natural supports are those that typically occur in everyday life and include
relationships with family, friends, peers and other social networks.</span></div>
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a good life</a> research identifies the range of natural supports used by
people recovering from mental illness, explores the links between natural
supports and social inclusion and recovery, and reviews how mental health
service providers currently understand and experience their work in helping
people make the most of natural supports.</span></div>
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website</a> or contact <a href="mailto:sarc@anglicare-tas.org.au">sarc@anglicare-tas.org.au</a>,
phone (03) 6213 3567.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear Croakey contributors<br />
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Just a quick note to let you know of some recent developments at Croakey.<br />
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• Dr Melissa Stoneham from the Public Health Advocacy Institute WA is calling
for health professionals, and particularly Indigenous health professionals, to
support a campaign re the threatened closure of remote communities. If you
would like to add your signature to letters to politicians, please contact her
at: <a href="mailto:m.stoneham@curtin.edu.au">m.stoneham@curtin.edu.au</a><br />
<b><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/11/30/indigenous-health-professionals-urged-to-support-campaign-against-closure-of-remote-indigenous-communities/">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/11/30/indigenous-health-professionals-urged-to-support-campaign-against-closure-of-remote-indigenous-communities/</a>
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• The latest Health Wrap, by Kellie Bisset covers a wealth of health news, from
local to national and global, including the Co-payment, Victorian election,
Indigenous health, health reform and public health<br />
<b><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/12/02/the-health-wrap-copayment-confusion-vicvotes-overcoming-indigenous-disadvantage-making-systems-work-for-health/">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/12/02/the-health-wrap-copayment-confusion-vicvotes-overcoming-indigenous-disadvantage-making-systems-work-for-health/</a>
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• Don’t miss the latest column from The Koori Woman/Kelly Briggs – on why there
were no surprises for her in the recent First Contact program on SBS<br />
<b><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/11/26/the-koori-woman-no-surprises-for-me-in-first-contact/">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/11/26/the-koori-woman-no-surprises-for-me-in-first-contact/</a>
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• You can download a copy of Marie McInerney’s indepth coverage of the recent
Australian Indigenous Doctors Association conference in this interactive PDF<br />
<b><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg1km0uoxlw5ztu/AIDA_Conf_2014.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg1km0uoxlw5ztu/AIDA_Conf_2014.pdf?dl=0</a><br />
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• Thanks to all who contributed to Croakey’s recent G20 coverage, which is
compiled here:<br />
<b><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/?cat=1648">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/?cat=1648</a><br />
</b><br />
And finally, if you would like to support some improvements to the Croakey site
while also knocking off the Christmas shopping and getting yourself some nifty
public health T-shirts/mugs etc – please check out the new Croakey merchandise
range at Redbubble (you can get the designs as T-shirts, pillow case covers,
phone covers, cards, mugs etc) <br />
<b><a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/rocklilydesign/collections/341262-croakey">http://www.redbubble.com/people/rocklilydesign/collections/341262-croakey</a><br />
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Many thanks to Ben Harris-Roxas, Tim Senior and Lesley Russell for suggesting
the designs.<br />
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All the best<br />
Melissa Sweet</span></div>
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Health Network in Tasmania. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Network has been established to
help people work together to leverage action on the <b><i>Social Determinants
of Health. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The social determinants of health
are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, play and age.
They are sometimes referred to as <i>‘the causes of the causes’</i> because
they are the underlying reasons why people experience poor health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For more information about the
social determinants of health download the action sheets on the TasCOSS
website: <a href="http://www.tascoss.org.au/"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.tascoss.org.au</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The vision of the Network is for
All Tasmanians to have the opportunity to live a long, healthy life regardless
of their income, education, employment, gender, sexuality, capabilities,
cultural background, who they are or where they live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyone who shares in this vision
can join. It’s free of charge. To join please email your details to <b style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">socialdeterminantsofhealthtas@gmail.com</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please feel free to forward this to
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Twitter: @SDOHTas</span></b></div>
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running out to take part in the 2014 Regional Wellbeing Survey</span></strong><strong> </strong></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
National Rural Health Alliance is pleased to support the 2014 Regional
Wellbeing Survey. <em>The
Centre for Research and Action in Public Health</em> conducts the survey
to support research that improves the wellbeing and quality of life for people
living in rural and regional Australia.<br />
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We need your help to
hear their views. The 2014 survey is still open but closes at
midnight Sunday 30 November. Please
participate and forward this email to others who might be interested in the
survey. You can do the survey online at <a href="http://ruralhealth.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c38e2f4fb55da61ef7dd1d00b&id=433a75eea9&e=a411d1c0d5"><strong><span style="color: #8f9600;">www.regionalwellbeing.org.au</span></strong></a>.
Or call 1800 981 499 if you’d like a paper survey, or any other help.
You can choose to do a short, regular or long version of the survey. The
survey is voluntary, confidential and anonymous. <br />
Many communities are now using the Regional Wellbeing Survey’s results as a key
resource. To see last year’s results, click <a href="http://ruralhealth.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c38e2f4fb55da61ef7dd1d00b&id=b5b700c23f&e=a411d1c0d5"><span style="color: #8f9600;">here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you for sharing the survey and your valuable insights.<br />
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<strong>Damien Hickman</strong><br />
Policy and Communications<br />
National Rural Health Alliance</span></div>
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National and Tasmanian Results</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></b></div>
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Wednesday 26 November</span></div>
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<a href="https://maps.google.com.au/maps?rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-Address&oe=&gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=au&cid=14620426922972502716&q=Menzies+Research+Institute+Tasmania&sa=X&ei=SIsXVK_YAZTp8AWQ64GYDg&ved=0CHEQ_BIwDQ">Menzies
Research Institute Tasmania. 17 Liverpool St, Hobart</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Medical Science 1 Lecture
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 2011-13 Australian
Health Survey (AHS) is the largest and most comprehensive health survey ever
conducted in Australia. The survey was designed to collect a range of
information from Australians about health related issues, including health
status, risk factors, socioeconomic circumstances, health-related actions and
use of medical services. In 2011-13, the AHS collected new information on
nutrition and physical activity. It also included the first national biomedical
information collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The session will include
discussion of:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. National and Tasmanian results from
4364.0.55.007 </span><a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/productsbyCatalogue/CB8F8963858B25C8CA257CD20014C10E?OpenDocument" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Australian
Health Survey: Nutrition First Results – Food and Nutrients, 2011-12</a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. National and Tasmanian results from
4364.0.55.055 </span><a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4364.0.55.005Main+Features12011-12?OpenDocument" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Australian
Health Survey: Biomedical Results for Chronic Diseases, 2011-12</a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. National and Tasmanian results from
4727.0.55.033 </span><a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4727.0.55.003" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Biomedical results,
2012-13</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Louise is responsible for
the analysis and dissemination of information related to health. In particular,
she is responsible for the output of the Australian Health Survey including the
nutrition, physical activity and biomedical components and also the Patient
Experience Survey as well as forward planning for future cycles of these
surveys.</span></div>
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Voices Project</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mental Health Carers
Tasmania are excited to launch the Caring Voices Project. If you are a Carer we
would welcome your participation. Further information is detailed below. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you care for a person with mental ill
health?</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7f2f2d;">We know that being a carer of a person with mental ill
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<span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mental Health Carers Tasmania wants to develop a better
understanding of the issues faced by mental health carers so that we can
improve community understanding & advocate for the rights and needs of
mental health carers in Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A mental health carer is someone who provides unpaid
physical, practical or emotional support to a family member, friend, neighbour
or colleague with mental ill health<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Participating in the Caring Voices Project will involve
completing either a written or online survey, or a telephone or face-to-face
interview <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #943634;">until Monday 15th December
2014.</span><span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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interview or for more information please contact Mental Health Carers Tasmania
on 6228 7448 or email </span><a href="mailto:admin@mentalhealthcarerstas.org.au">admin@mentalhealthcarerstas.org.au</a><span style="color: #7f2f2d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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participants’ names will not be disclosed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tool in the fight against inequality:</span> </span></b><a href="http://t.co/ud8WS5IBxo" target="_blank" title="http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=1700"><span class="invisible"><span style="background: white; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background: white; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">globalhealthcheck.org/?p=1700</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background: white; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a></span></div>
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Mental Health </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Discussion paper has been prepared to start the discussion
about our mental health service system, what it looks like now, what it should
look like into the future and what should be in our a long term plan for mental
health in Tasmania. </span></div>
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