Updated on August 12
, 2004
Calendar
19 August
2004
An
Ecological perspective on the Promotion
of Healthy Weights
A lecture series organized
by the Léa-Roback Research
Centre on social Inequalities in
Health of Montreal. Direction de santé
publique de Montréal
For information (PDF)
Job
Opportunities
Two
(2) research assistant positions
Le réseau
Villes Régions Monde cherche à combler
deux postes d'assistant(e)s de
recherche.
Date limite : le 18 août
2004
For
information
Bibliography
- Housing and Health
Localisation et ampleur des conditions d’habitation
problématiques à Montréal
SMARGIASSI, Audrey, Stéphane CHARBONNEAU,
Norman KING and Martin WEXLER. Direction de santé publique
de Montréal/Direction de l’habitation de la
Ville de Montréal : June 2004. (Français-PDF)
Does access to cardiac investigation and treatment
contribute to social and ethnic differe nces
in coronary heart disease? Whitehall II
prospective cohort study
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/bmj;329/7461/318
BRITTON, Annie, Martin SHIPLEY, Michael MARMOT
and Harry HEMINGWAY, BMJ 2004;329:318 (7 August).
Updated on February 26
, 2004
Research/Teaching
Creation of the Léa-Roback Research
Centre on Social Inequalities in Health of Montréal
OMISS is pleased to announce the creation of a research
centre dedicated to issues related to social and health
inequalities in Montréal
For more information
(PDF)
Updated on February 10
, 2004
Statistics
Low income - the situation in
Montréal
The Montréal Public Health
Department has just released a series of data on the population
and households living below the low-income cutoffs. The
series compares figures from 1990, 1995 and 2000, according
to different population clusters.
To access the
data : http://www.santepub-mtl.qc.ca/Portrait/Montreal/faiblerevenu.html
Updated on February 6
, 2004
Bibliography
Catching up to reality : Building the case
for a new social model
The Familly Network of the Canadian Policy Research
Networks (CPRN) has just released the first of its new
Social Architecture Papers. Catching up to reality:
Building the case for a new social model , by
Jane Jenson, Director of the CPRN's Family Network, traces
the socio-economic patterns and underlying understanding
and prescription (what she calls «social knowledge »)
that shaped policy choices from the 1940s through the
1960s. She describes how new social realities challenge
that social knowledge, and she identifies new knowledge
that demands a policy response more appropriate to current
conditions.
For more information : http://www.cprn.org/fr/doc.cfm?doc=513
In addition to Jenson's introductory paper, CPRN is
releasing the following historical and comparative papers
on the same theme:
- The Canadian social model: The logics
of policy development, by Gerard Boychuk
- Social protection reforms in Europe
: strategies for a new social model, by Bruno Palier
- One discourse, three dialects: changing
the social model in Australia , the United Kingdom,
and the United States , by Roxanne M. Pawlick and Sharon
M. Stroick
To get a copy of CPRN's documents : http://www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm
Updated on November 25 , 2003
Bibliography
Honouring Our Promises: Meeting the Challenge
to End Child and Family Poverty
http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/index.html
Campaign 2000 has just released its 2003 report
card on child poverty in Canada . The organization
sheds light on the lessons from the long-term perspective
on child and family poverty and urges for a comprehensive,
muti-pronged social investment strategy to achieve
its eradication.
Updated on November 18 , 2003
Bibliography
Monitoring
Equity in Health and Healthcare: A conceptual
framework
BRAVEMAN, Paula A., Journal Health Popul
Nutr 2003 September; 21(3): 181-192.ICDDR, B: Centre
Local
basket of inequalities indicators
FITZPATRICK, Justine and Bobbie Jacobson.
London Health Observatory, October 2003
Achieving
equity in the Australian healthcare system
LEEDER Stephen R. Med J Aust – 3 November
2003 ; 179 (9): 475-478
Is
the NHS equitable? A review of the evidence
DIXON , Ana, Julian LE GRAND John HENDERSON , Rchard MURRAY and Emmi POTELIAKHOFF.
LSE Health and Social Care Discussion Paper 11, November 2003.
Updated on November 6 , 2003
Reference
material - Sites to visit
National Center for
Children in Poverty
Columbia University – Mailman
School of Public Health
The National Center for Children in Poverty identifies
and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty
in the United States and that improve the lives
of low-income children and their families.
UC Atlas of Global Inequality
University of California ( Santa Cruz )
The Atlas explores the interaction between global
integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides
maps, graphics and data. The Atlas has generated
maps examining some aspects of material inequality,
life and death, global connectedness and economic
globalisation. It plans to portray aspects of inequality
within countries, starting with the health consequences
of wealth and poverty. The Atlas is a project of
the Center for Global , International and Regional
Studies (CGIRS).
Job
opportunities
Research
and PhD and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Bibliography
Effectiveness of out-of-home day care for
disadvantaged families: randomised controlled trial
National Action Plans on Social Inclusion
2003
In response to the common objectives on poverty and social
exclusion which were revised in December 2002, all Member
States of the European Union were due to submit their second
National Action Plans against poverty and social exclusion
(NAPs/inclusion) in July 2003. In these plans, every member
state presents its priorities
Opportunity for All.
Department of Work and Pensions, UK , September 2003
United Kingdom 's Fifth Annual Report on its strategy
to tackle poverty and social exclusion:« Opportunity
for all». It provides a series of indicators
used to monitor the impact of government's action.
Variations
des écarts de santé en
fonction du revenu au Québec de 1987 à 1998 .
Institut de la statistique du Québec, October
2003.
The report Variation des écarts de l'état
de santé en fonction du revenu au Québec
de 1987 à 1998 (differences in health status
based on income in Québec from 1987 to 1998)
sets out the results of a study by Marc Ferland, of
the Québec regional health and social services
board (RRSSS), on the measurement over a period of
time of selected health indicators among the various
socioeconomic groups. (In FRENCH)
Statsitics
- Montréal
The Montreal Public Health Department has just released
six maps showing data from the 2001 Census on the
following: population growth, proportion of the population
aged over 65, proportion of immigrants, proportion
of single-parent families, and proportion of the
population living under the low-income cut-off, highest
level of schooling achieved. These maps illustrate
major differences in the socio-economic characteristics
of the population by CLSC district. http://www.santepub-mtl.qc.ca/Portrait/Les29/nouvelle/13102003.html
Updated on October 20, 2003
Bibliography
