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Cara Ana Lucia, aqui na OPAS Brasil apoiamos a publicação de dois materiais desenvolvidos no âmbito dos Laboratórios de Inovação, com conteúdo técnico de excelente qualidade e inovador. Peço o seu apoio para divulgação na lista de equidade.

1. Livro: O Cuidado das condições crônicas na Atenção Primária à Saúde: o imperativo da consolidação da Estratégia da Saúde da Família

http://apsredes.org/site2012/2012/04/o-cuidado-das-condicoes-cronicas-na-atencao-primaria-a-saude-o-imperativo-da-consolidacao-da-estrategia-da-saude-da-familia/

2. Publicação: Inclusão dos Cidadãos na Implementação das Políticas de Saúde: Experiências Brasileiras e Européias

http://apsredes.org/site2012/2012/04/novo-lancamento-da-serie-navegador-sus-publicacao-do-cns-e-da-opas-com-experiencias-sobre-a-inclusao-do-cidadao-em-politicas-publicas-2/

Muchas Gracias!!!

Elisandréa Sguario Kemper

Consultora Técnica Nacional

OPAS/OMS-Brasil

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UN side events during Rio+20 Conference

Discussion Panel

Water and Sustainable Development: Elimination of Cholera in The Hispaniola

Venue:  ISAGS

Date:  Tuesday June 19, 2012

Time: 12:00 to 14:30 hrs

Website: http://new.paho.org/ssgate/

Background

The region of the Americas has evolved dramatically since the 1992 Earth Summit. It is enjoying a demographic bonus, it has become more inserted into the global economy, it has become more democratic, it has grown out of decades of economic crisis, it stronger economically, with less extreme poor but still with large economic gaps.

We acknowledge that health is at the core of sustainable development, both as being impacted by the social, environmental and economic conditions as well providing an input for development and making it sustainable.

However, developing nations are confronting a double burden of acute infections and chronic non communicable diseases that critically impede their development. The international community should use the principle of solidarity to live up to the challenge of supporting the empowering efforts of countries to raise their conditions of living.  Such is the case of the nations in Hispaniola, and of major concern the situation of Haiti.

A platform to coordinate the efforts of the countries propelled at the beginning of 2012 as a response for a Call of Action to Eliminate Cholera in Hispaniola has been established through the launching of the Coalition for the Elimination of Cholera in the Hispaniola.

General Objective:

To present the current plans on water infrastructure to confront the challenge of Cholera in the countries of the Hispaniola, address the functions and the call of the Coalition of agencies and countries established to support their efforts, and motivate the broader support for the proposed actions to follow up.

Objectives of Side Event:

1.      Present the Health and Development situation of the countries in Hispaniola, and the challenge from the recent epidemic of Cholera

2.      Present the Coalition for the Elimination of Cholera in Hispaniola, and its proposed activities

3.      To call for contributing to the countries efforts to make their development sustainable by other potential partners and actions to the Coalition

Co-Sponsors:

PAHO/WHO; Ministries of Health and Water responsible authorities of  Dominican Republic, Haiti; Ministry of Health of Brazil, IDB , CDC, ECLAC, UNDP-SS-GATE ; (others that might be added)

Proposed Panelists/Speakers

I.         Welcome and presentation of the Moderator

12:15

II.       The challenge cholera to development in the countries of Hispaniola

o       Ministry of Health of Brazil

12:30

III.      The National and Binational Plans to respond to the Cholera Epidemic in La Hispaniola

o       Dominican Republic National Coordinator

o       Haiti National Coordinator

13:10

IV.   The Coalition for the Elimination of Cholera in Hispaniola

o       PAHO (Coalition Temporary Secretariat)

o       Consideration by Coalition Members

13:30                                                                                                   

V.     Calling for the support of the Coalition

o       Reaction by non-participating members: UNDP and/or others

o       Extending the challenge: water and housing , Fiocruz Foundation

13:50

VI.   Open discussion on the mechanisms for the future (Coordinator TBN)

14:20

VII.  Closing remarks, Coordinator

Product of the Side Event

·        Distribution of the Coalition Declaration

·        Highlight the challenge of developing countries for making development sustainable

·        Present the Coalition for Elimination of Cholera in Hispaniola

·        To bring attention of other potential partners and actions to the Coalition

Additional events around the session

·        Luncheon during the session

Venue:  ISAGS

Date:  Tuesday June 19, 2012

Time: 12:00 to 14:30 hrs

Contact: Vitale, Mrs. Mirriah vitalem@paho.org

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Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Capacity Strengthening in Health Research

Five keys to improving research costing in low- and middle income countries

2012 - ESSENCE - harmonizing policies and practices of research funders – Good practice document series

Available online at: http://bit.ly/L4I0Kv

Contents

Introduction

KEY 1 Defining and categorizing direct and indirect costs

KEY 2 Determining indirect-cost rates

KEY 3 Institutional management of research grants

KEY 4 Developing relevant skills and competencies

KEY 5 Bridging the gaps between funders and research institutions

The way forward

A forum for shared learning

Framework for Capacity Strengthening in Health Research

TDR, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases executed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and WHO -ESSENCE Good practice document series

The PM&E Framework is posted at: http://bit.ly/eXTHtu

“…..Enhancing Support for Strengthening the Effectiveness of National Capacity Efforts (ESSENCE on Health Research) is a collaborative framework between funding agencies to scale up research capacity for health. It aims to improve the impact of investments in institutions and people, and provides enabling mechanisms that address needs and priorities within national strategies on research for health…...”

Contact: Dr Garry Aslanyan Manager, Portfolio Policy, WHO/TDR aslanyang@who.int

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

Air Pollution and Sustainable Development

Wednesday May 23^rd, 2012 - In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish

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

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

Environmental Health Inequalities in Europe. Assessment Report
EURO/WHO 2012 PDF [212p.] at:  http://bit.ly/xA9tmV

The current Rio+20 zero draft of the outcome document includes the following paragraph:

“………..We commit to promote an integrated and holistic approach to planning and building sustainable cities through support to local authorities, efficient transportation and communication networks, greener buildings and an efficient human settlements and service delivery system,
improved air and water quality, reduced waste, improved disaster preparedness and response and increased climate resilience……….”

“……Industry, transport, information and societal development in general, have combined during the past centuries in a very productive way to human kind. Thanks to this today’s modern societies enjoy the comfort of terrestrial, areal and maritime transportation; a massive amount of goods and services hand reachable, and information and communications 24/7 around the world. However, these developments have produced different air pollutants such as gases (carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, methanol, volatile organics, etc.) and a varied amount of particulate emissions (diesel, carbon, lead, silica, etc.). All together they have strongly polluted our planet, particularly our atmosphere.

Analyzing the sources of air pollution, mobile sources represented in road and air transportation are considered to be the biggest air polluters, enhanced by urban sprawl, traffic density and long commutes. While within the fixed sources industry, household combustion devices and agricultural/forest fire emissions are considered to contribute the most. Consequently, smog hanging over cities is probably the most familiar and visible form of air pollution that does contribute to global warming, the greenhouse effect, the climatic changes, within other phenomena, and it also yields very deleterious health effects in humans and all living forms and creatures on the planet.

WHO estimates that 2.4 million people die per year because of air pollution. Some studies even show that at a global level, deaths are more attributable to air pollution than to automobile accidents. People suffering from respiratory diseases, as well as children and elderly are much more vulnerable to be affected. Short-term effects on human health usually are eye, nose and throat irritations, and upper respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Long-term effects are often more severe, including chronic respiratory diseases, lung cancer, heart disease, brain/neurological damages and liver diseases, within others.

This seminar will address some of these problems that certainly affect human populations around the world and that should help position health within the context of human sustainable development.

Agenda

12:00      Introduction:  Agnes Soares, Moderator, Regional Advisor Sustainable Development and Environmental Health PAHO/WHO

12:05      Air Pollution, Health and Sustainable Energy considerations for Sustainable Development:

  Daniel S. Greenbaum, President, Health Effects Institute

12:20      A National Perspective on intervention on Urban Air Pollution for Health in Sustainable Development in Mexico:  
Leonora Rojas-Bracho, Director General
Urban and Regional Contamination National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change, Mexico

12:30      Transportation policies and air pollution:
Dinesh Mohan, Volvo Chair Professor Emeritus, Transport Research and Injury Prevention Program,
WHO Collaborating Centre. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

12:40      The challenge on air pollution and sustainable development from the Ministry of Health of Chile:
Victor Berrios, Chief Air Quality Surveillance Network (R.M), “Seremi de Salud R.M

12:50      Investing for Sustainable Development: Addressing the priorities in Latin American Cities:  

  Juan Carlos Belaustenguigoitia. World Bank’s Senior Environmental Economist

1 :00      Commentary:  Nelson Gouveia, São Paulo University Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

1:10      Discussion

1:30      Adjourn

How to participate

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

Online: via Elluminate link:

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

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

Related material:

Health impacts of Air Pollution - http://bit.ly/KJt2g8
Publications on environmental burdens of disease - http://bit.ly/L5bJmv

Environmental health inequalities in Europe. Assessment report EURO/WHO http://bit.ly/xA9tmV

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20

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

Food Security

No 15 Food Security, Health and Sustainable Development
http://bit.ly/J6S46s  

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

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

http://bit.ly/IQGhgE

Economic – social aspects Non Communicable Diseases

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

http://bit.ly/IisLCg

Non Communicable Diseases 

No.11 Non Communicable Diseases and Sustainable Development

http://bit.ly/JGgnvr

Workers health

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

Regional Experiences

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

Road Safety  

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

Globalization

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

Civil Society

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

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

The Environment

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

Climate Change

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

Water

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

Sustainable Development

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

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Sustainable Cities

Local solutions in the Global South

Edited by Mélanie Robertson

International Development Research Centre, IDRC 2012

Available online at:

“………..Through nine case studies, the book addresses the diverse urban sustainability challenges facing cities in the Global South, such as tenure policy, water management, sustainable housing, waste treatment and recycling practices, urban agriculture, and construction practices.
By featuring a dynamic mix of academic research and urban design projects from fields such as architecture, environmental science, agroforestry, anthropology, and urban planning, this book discusses the development of relevant tools and methods for conducting sustainable participatory research and practices in cities.

The book thereby aims to promote sustainable, locally driven solutions devised by the populations and authorities who are struggling in the face of poverty.

Urban space in the Global South: The nature of urban poverty

The Global South is home to nearly three-quarters of the world’s urban population and most of the world’s largest and fastest-growing cities (UNPD,2006). At its current pace, urbanization creates population densification, which exacerbates environmental and habitat-related problems of local, regional, and even global reach. The challenge to optimize resource use and waste generation in urban centres is thus of critical importance.

In addition to environmental and habitat-related problems, urbanization is also characterized by poverty. The majority of urban dwellers live in shelters and neighbourhoods where they must contend with substandard conditions such as the following: poor-quality and overcrowded housing; inadequate water and food supplies; inadequate sanitation, drainage, and waste collection services; significant health challenges resulting from these conditions; difficulty getting healthcare and affording medication; difficulty keeping children in school; long working hours; and dangerous working conditions………”

Content:

Introduction: The challenge of urban sustainability

1 Food-producing trees in urban public spaces:
   An innovative strategy to fight poverty in Villa El Salvador, Peru

2 Urban agriculture in Dakar, Senegal: Health aspects related to polluted irrigation water

3 Participatory transformation of the Women’s Centre of Malika, Senegal:
   Strategies for the development of a productive ecosystem in the peri-urban context

4 Healthy, sustainable, and culturally appropriate living and working environments:
   Domestic pig production in Malika, Senegal

5 Housing for the urban poor through informal providers, Dhaka, Bangladesh

6 Socio-spatial tensions and interactions: An ethnography of the condominium housing of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

7 Partnership modalities for the management of drinking water in poor urban neighbourhoods:
  The example of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

8 Rethink, reuse:
   Improving collective action capacity regarding solid waste management and income generation in Koh Kred, Thailand

9 Using participatory urban design to integrate organic solid waste management into urban agriculture:
   A case study from Cayagan de Oro City in the Philippines

Conclusion: The challenges of sustainable cities for research and practice

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Thailand’s Universal Coverage Scheme: Achievements and Challenges

An independent assessment of the first 10 years (2001-2010)

This study was funded by the Health Systems Research Institute, the Prince Mahidol
-Award Conference, the World Health Organization Regional Office for South-EastAsia and the National Health Security Office.

May 2012 - Health Insurance System Research Office

Available online PDF [120p.] at: http://bit.ly/JZxYgN

“…..The assessment shows there were some extraordinary achievements in the first 10 years of the UCS. However, the UCS is an ongoing, long-term reform and further work is needed to address a number of challenges. Based on the insights gained through the assessment, two sets of policy recommendations — one set related to the unfinished agenda and one to the future agenda — are offered with a view to sustaining and improving the UCS over the next 10 years…..”

Policy implications for the rest of the world

Many factors contributed to the successful implementation of the UCS policy, including political and financial commitments, a strong civil service acting in the public interest, active civil society organizations, technical capacity to generate and use research evidence, economic growth, and policies to increase fiscal space. While some countries may find this list daunting it is important to realize that all these elements can be developed over time. Countries must find their own path to universal coverage — while no blueprint emerges from this work, the Thai reform experience provides valuable lessons.

Managing the process

As important as it is to bring different stakeholders together to listen, consult, negotiate and compromise, it is essential that the leaders of the reform have

the power to resolve conflicts and to drive through the necessary changes.

Otherwise countries risk getting stuck in the design stage, stalled by interest groups that feel threatened and are resisting change. Countries need a concrete plan to manage the reform process. It is also important to build capacity, not just to design a universal coverage scheme, but also to manage its implementation, including capacity for learning from the experience and tweaking the scheme as it is implemented.

Designing the system

Three design elements are essential to achieve universal coverage: extension of access to services, cost containment and strategic purchasing. Financing reform must go hand in hand with ensuring physical access to services. There is no point giving people a theoretical entitlement to financial protection if they have no access to local services or if it is too costly to access services outside the community in which they live. Thailand was in a good position to implement the UCS policy because for decades the government had invested in building local health infrastructure.

Cost containment mechanisms are critical because unless costs are controlled it will be difficult to cover the whole of the population and to provide adequate services; such mechanisms ensure long-term financial sustainability. Two such features of the UCS are the emphasis on primary health care (which was historically weak in Thailand) as the main first level of care, and the payment mechanisms, which use capitation and case-based payment within a global budget to fix the total cost. The third design element, strategic purchasing, is necessary to manage the rationing of services and to direct the provision of care to those areas where need is greatest………..”

Contents

Executive Summary

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Setting the scene: background to the Universal Coverage Scheme UCS reform

Chapter 3. Why the Universal Coverage Scheme UCS was launched in 2001:
                  the convergence of political commitment, civil society mobilization and technical know-how

Chapter 4. The Universal Coverage Scheme UCS policy: a brief overview

• Goal and strategic objectives

• Tax-financed scheme free at the point of service

• Comprehensive benefits package with a primary care focus

• A fixed annual budget and a cap on provider payment

• Not poor health care for poor people

Chapter 5. New institutions and new ways of working

Chapter 6. Implementing the Universal Coverage Scheme UCS: institutional conflicts and resistance to change
            • Purchaser-provider split: anything but cut and dry

• Redefining institutional roles and relations: muddy and murky waters

• Health workforce: more difficult to redistribute according to need than anticipated

• Harmonization of public health insurance schemes
• High levels of satisfaction among Universal Coverage Scheme UCS members and providers

Chapter 7. Governance: good, but room for improvement

• Participation, transparency, consensus and rule of law

• Responsiveness and accountability

• Effectiveness and efficiency

• Other accountability concerns

• Overall governance of the NHSB and its subcommittees

Chapter 8. Significant positive impacts in the first 10 years

• Increased utilization and low levels of unmet need demonstrate improved access

• Decreasing catastrophic expenditures and household impoverishment

• Difficult to measure but important impact indicators

• Spill-over effects on the health system

• Macroeconomic impacts of the Universal Coverage Scheme UCS

Chapter 9. Universal Coverage Scheme UCS in the next 10 years: the challenges ahead

• Continuing towards full implementation of the UCS

• Managing the growth of the UCS

Chapter 10. Recommendations and lessons

• Policy recommendations for Thailand

• Policy implications for the rest of the world

• Concluding remarks

References

Annex: Framework for assessing the Thai Universal Coverage Scheme

International experts: Timothy G. Evans, BRAC University; A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Rockefeller Foundation; David B. Evans, World Health Organization; Armin H. Fidler and Magnus Lindelow, World Bank; Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Xenia Scheil-Adlung, International Labour Organization.

Thai secretariat team: Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, International Health Policy Program; Pongpisut Jongudomsuk, Health Systems Research Institute; Samrit Srithamrongsawat, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Patchanee Thamwanna and Nutnitima Changprajuck, Health Insurance System Research Office.

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XIV SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20  (Spanish version attached)

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO

JOINT SEMINAR WITH THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (IOM/NRC, USA)

Global Sustainable Development and Environmental Health:
A conversation around the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference

9 May 2012 – Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm - EDT (Washington, DC USA)

To check local time in WDC against your time zone, see the World Clock

(In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish)

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

“………….Sustainable paths have the potential to bring enormous public health benefits. A recent series of studies in the Lancet concluded, for example, that appropriate climate mitigation strategies had the potential for mostly beneficial, independent effects on health, but noted that the potential value of these health co-benefits had not "been given sufficient prominence in international negotiations.”

The significant benefits to human health that sustainable development offers, however, are often not quantified. A shared agreement on how best to quantify human health measures would allow countries to both monitor health impacts of development and to add human health to their sustainable development agenda.

This consideration is crucial as the population of the planet passes seven billion on its way to nine billion by 2050. The paths towards poverty and hunger eradication and the provision of clean water, adequate energy, and safe shelter must be increasingly steered towards environmental and social sustainability—the crucial pieces of sustainable development. Further, rapid urbanization and technological development bring the risk of adverse unintended consequences, which can have significant impacts on human health such as heightened levels of environmental exposures and non-communicable disease burdens.

To inform the discussion at the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations World Conference, this 2-hour webcast event will focus on the critical role health plays in sustainable development. Through presentations and discussions, it is expected that participants and viewers will: gain a better understanding of the impact of health on economic growth, discuss appropriate health-related indicators and goals of sustainable development, and identify how to incorporate health into decisions that will be made at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development…….

The health benefits of tackling climate change The Lancet:
http://bit.ly/KAfMqX

Agenda

11:00 am      Opening: Luiz Augusto Galvão (moderator)
Area Manager, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, Pan American Health Organization

11:05 am      Overview of How Health Contributes to Advances in Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Maria Neira, Director, Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization

11:25 am      Is an Investment in Health also an Investment in Development?
Akiko Maeda, Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank

11:45 pm      Discussion (participants are encouraged to use the chat panel to send comments)

12:10pm       Tracking Health-Related Goals and Indicators for Sustainable Development
 John M. Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

12:25 pm      Discussion (participants are encouraged to use the chat panel to send comments)

12:50 pm      Visionary Piece and Wrap-up
Frank Loy, U.S. Representative to the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

1:00 pm ADJOURN

How to participate

In person: This event is free and open to the public
PAHO/WHO
525 23rd ST NW
Washington DC, 20037 Room 1017 – 12h to 13h Eastern Time (WDC)

Online: via Elluminate link:

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

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

SDE Seminar Series towards Rio+20

The SDE Seminar series will happen every Wednesday from February 8 to June 13th.

All Seminars will be live streamed, and open for participation in person at the PAHO/WHO headquarters, or via Elluminate. Some of the Seminars will be in English, others in Spanish. 

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

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

http://bit.ly/IQGhgE

Economic – social aspects Non Communicable Diseases

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

http://bit.ly/IisLCg

Non Communicable Diseases 

No.11 Non Communicable Diseases and Sustainable Development

http://bit.ly/JGgnvr

Workers health

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

            Regional Experiences

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

            Road Safety  

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

            Globalization

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

            Civil Society

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

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

            The Environment

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

            Climate Change

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

            Water

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

            Sustainable Development

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

Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens

Adam Wagstaff a, , , Anthony J. Culyer b, c

a Development Research Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

b Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada

c Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
Journal of Health Economics 31 (March 2012) 406– 439

Website: http://bit.ly/JrfEdM

“…………In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic “metadata” from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and our own topical classifications.

We report the growth of health economics (we find 33,000 publications since 1969—12,000 more than in the economics of education) and list the 300 most-cited publications broken down by topic.

We report the changing topical and geographic focus of health economics (the topics ‘Determinants of health and ill-health’ and ‘Health statistics and econometrics’ both show an upward trend, and the field has expanded appreciably into the developing world).

We also compare authors, countries, institutions and journals in terms of the volume of publications and their influence as measured through various citation-based indices (Grossman, the US, Harvard and the JHE emerge close to or at the top on a variety of measures)…..” [Authors ]

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