PHM-Exch> New discussion paper on research priorities on Equity and health: the third wave of global health research

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from  paho.org


 *Discussion paper *

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*Priorities for research on equity and health:
Implications for global and national priority setting and the role of WHO to
take the health equity research agenda forward

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Piroska Östlin (Task Force coordinator and core author), Department of
Public Health Sciences, Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institute,
Sweden

Ted Schrecker (core author), Department of Epidemiology and Community
Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

Ritu Sadana (core author), Equity Analysis and Research Unit, Department of
Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, Information, Evidence and Research
Cluster, World Health Organization;

Josiane Bonnefoy, Ministry of Health, Chile

Lucy Gilson, University of Cape Town, South Africa and London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Clyde Hertzman, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of
British Columbia, Canada

Michael P. Kelly, Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence, United Kingdom

Tord Kjellström, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ronald Labonté, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

Olle Lundberg, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

Carles Muntaner, Social Equity and Health Section, Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health and Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of
Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

Jennie Popay, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, United
Kingdom

Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, Centre for Public Policy,
Bangalore, India

Ziba Vaghri, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British
Columbia, Canada


*Commissioned by the World Health Organization* - *September 9, 2009

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The discussion paper is available as PDF file [38p.] at

http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Priorities%20for%20research%20on%20equity%20and%20health.pdf.


“…The report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health was
released in August, 2008.  Subsequently, a group led by Sweden’s Piroska
Östlin, comprising 14 researchers who were actively involved with the
Knowledge Networks that supported the Commission, was commissioned by WHO to
update an earlier (2005) report on priorities for health equity research.
The new (*September 9, 2009*) discussion paper observes that:



“The bulk of global health research has focused on biological disciplines,
to develop medical solutions, to be provided through clinical, individual
patient care. The past two decades have witnessed a rise in a new public
health paradigm, enlarging disciplinary perspectives, stakeholder analysis,
and recognition that health systems can be designed more effectively through
new knowledge. This paradigm shift represents a second wave of global health
research. With the 10/90 gap embraced by many organisations as an objective
to be reversed and the CSDH's report widely distributed, among other
contemporary efforts, this paper argues that we are on the cusp of a third
wave in global health research, one that explicitly links broader social,
political and economic determinants with improvements in equity in health,
within and across countries………”


*GLOBALIZATION KNOWLEDGE NETWORK: *
*WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

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