The nomenclature "racial" and "ethnic" health disparities used in the
States (compared to Social Determinants of Health as "we" refer to it in
Canada) is so very interesting since so many poor people in the U.S. are
definitively Caucasian and wouldn't refer to or see themselves as being
ethnically diverse because they are poor. Yet according to your
terminology they are catagorically experiencing racial and ethnic health
disparity.
Good luck to you,
Deborah
>>> [log in to unmask] 12/1/2004 10:20:09 PM >>>
In the US "we" call them RACIAL and ETHNIC Health Disparities!
Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Well it won't get far whilke even progressives in the US continue to
call
>health inequities "disparities". That Thatcherist/Reagonist term
should
>be consigned to the waste and even health inequalities should only be
>used for descriptive purposes. But for analysis and policy
development,
>let's call them what they are, preventable, reinforced by elites in
the
>face of evidence and therefore inequities.
>
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 12/02/04 03:09am >>>
>This looks like a temendous opportunity. And since it will be
>web-archived, it can be accessed and saved, I would think on CDs.
>
>
>But the big question is, and I ask this in the greatest sympathy to
my
>neighbours to the south:
>
>
>Can this come to anything in George Bush's America? - dr
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>
>HEALTH DISPARITIES & THE BODY POLITIC:
>
>
>POLICY, RESEARCH, DATA & GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY
>
>
> Three international symposia sponsored by the Harvard School of
Public
>Health:
> March 3, 2005 - April 14, 2005 - May 5, 2005
> For free registration & information on accessing free webcast, see
>website
>at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities
>
>
> Social inequality may be harmful to your health. It increases the
burden
>of disability and disease in communities and cuts short lives.
>Economic deprivation, discrimination, lack of access to health
services,
>and violation or neglect of human rights all play a part in shaping
>population health.
> Yet, despite centuries of evidence on the toll of adverse living and
>working conditions on health, only been in the past decade has
concern
>with
>social inequalities in health become part of the mainstream public
health
>agenda.
> To explore the role that governments and engaged communities can play
in
>reducing and rectifying social inequities in health worldwide, the
Harvard
>School of Public Health is hosting a three-part symposium series.
>
>
> --Thursday, March 3, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center,
77
>Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
> "Spreading the Health: Government's Role in Addressing Health
>Disparities."
>
>
> --Thursday, April 14, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center,
77
>Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.
> "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health
>Research Institutes"
>
>
> --Thursday, May 5, 2:00 -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center, 77
Avenue
>Louis Pasteur, Boston
>"Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to
Action"
>
>
> To enhance the global reach of the symposia, each session will be
web
>cast
>live, with free access. All sessions will be archived, also with free
>access, at this symposium web site hosted by the Harvard School of
Public
>Health.
>
>
> The content of all the symposia has been developed independently of
our
>sponsors. Admission is free. Seating is limited. See symposium
>descriptions
>for registration deadlines.
>
>
> SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS:
>
>
> --March 3, 2005: "Spreading the Health: Government's Role in
Addressing
>Health Disparities"
>
>
> Moderator:
>David Studdert, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Law and Public
Health
>
>
> Speakers:
>Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality,
>United States Department of Health and Human Services;
> Fiona Adshead, MD, Deputy Medical Officer, Department of Health,
United
>Kingdom;
> Asa Christina Laurell, MD, Minister of Health, Mexico City;
> Irene Nilsson Carlsson, Director, Division for Public Health,
Sweden.
>
>
> Discussant:
>Sir Donald Acheson, professor emeritus, University College of London,
>author of The Acheson Inquiry
>
>
> Q & A Panel:
>
>
>Deborah Prothrow Stith, MD, HSPH Professor of Public Health Practice,
>Facilitator
> Kalahn Taylor Clark, HSPH graduate student;
> Sofia Gruskin, HSPH Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights;
> Ashih Jha, HSPH Assistant Professor of Health Management and HMS
Research
>Fellow in Medicine;
> Brent Staples (invited), The New York Times, columnist.
>
>
> --April 14, 2005: "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas
for
>National Health Research Institutes"
> Moderator: Lisa Berkman, HSPH Professor of Public Policy, Departments
of
>Society, Human Development, and Health and Epidemiology, Harvard
School of
>Public Health
>
>
> Speakers:
>Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health;
> John Frank, PhD, Scientific Director, Institute of Population and
Public
>Health, Canada;
> Mirta Roses Periago, MD, Director, Pan American Health Organization;
>PAHO/WHO
> Sujatha Rao, MD, Member Secretary of the National Commission on
>Macroeconomics and Health, India.
>
>
> Discussant:
>Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, MPH, President, Institute of Medicine
>
>
> Q & A Panel:
>
>
>Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy, Facilitator
> JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Director of Community Health Programs and HMS
Center
>of
>Excellence in Women's Health, Brigham and Women57;s Hospital;
> Christopher Murray, MD, PhD, HSPH Professor of Population Policy,
>Director
>of the Harvard Global Health Initiative;
> Atul Gawande, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brigham and
Women's
>Hospital;
> Maria Glymour, SD, Research Associate, HSPH Department of Society,
Human
>Development, and Health.
>
>
> --May 5, 2005: "Making Disparities Count: From Government
Statistics
>Systems to Action"
> Moderator: Nancy Krieger, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Society,
Human
>Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
>
>
> Speakers:
>John Fox, PhD, Director of Statistics, Department of Health, United
>Kingdom
> Vickie Mays, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of
>California-Los Angeles and Director, UCLA Center on Research,
Education,
>Training, and Strategic Communications on Minority Health
Disparities;
> Eduardo Mota, SD, Chief of Health Statistics, Instituto de Saude
>Coletiva,
>Brazil;
>
>
> Discussant:
>Godfrey Woelk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Communitiy
>Medicine,
>College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe;
>
>
> Q & A Panel:
>
>
>Robert Blendon, ScD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management,
>Facilitator
> Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy;
> Mary Waters, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Harvard;
> Evelynn Hammonds, PhD, SM, Professor of the History of Science and
>African
>and African American Studies, Harvard;
>
>
> David Rehkopf, MPH, doctoral candidate, Harvard School of Public
Health
> Organized by the HSPH Health Disparities Working Group symposia
>committee:
>Nancy Krieger, Lisa Berkman, David Studdert, Bev Freeman, Alix
Smullin
>
>
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