Dear all,
"Views on health promotion" on line discussion VHPO initiative led by International union of health promotion and education (IUHPE) available at http://www.vhpo.net/ has launched its fifth discussion stream " equity and diversity in health promotion capacity development" just few hours ago. You can register and then click on topics to find the discussions in order to view the discussions and reply by posting your comments. After a while the discussions would be synthesized and summarized  to be published. I have been invited to moderate this stream. i would like to invite all of you to contribute to this discussion .You can start by replying to the questions mentioned in the first post about capacity development for developing countries. I appreciate your contribution in advance.
Best Regards
Natsrana 
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Dr Nastaran Keshavarz Mohammadi 
PhD, Health Promotion 
Director, Health Promotion Unit , Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Iran 

Coordinator, EMRO Health Promotion Network 

Global secretary for Equity and Diversity(ISECN)http://hpequitydiversity.blogspot.com/ 

International Union for Health Promotion and Education,Paris, France 

skype ID:nastaran.keshavarz

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Ann-Marie Marcolin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ann-Marie Marcolin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Invite: Equity and Resource Allocation
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Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:05 PM

FREE ETHICS ROUNDS - all are welcome!

Topic: 
Equity and Resource Allocation

Date: 
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Time: 
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Place: 
St. Joseph's Health Centre (Toronto), 30 The Queensway (close to
Roncesvalles and The Queensway)
Large Boardroom - 1B106  (1st floor, at the back of cafeteria, across
from the womens washroom)

Presenter: 
Ahmed M. Bayoumi,  M.Sc., MD
Program Director, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research
Program, 
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, 
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St.
Michael’s Hospital

Objectives:
1.To appreciate how different disciplines conceptualize equity in
health
2.To recognize the importance of values when considering equity
3.To explore methods to incorporate equity considerations into resource
allocation decisions

If you have any questions please feel free to contact AnnMarie at
416-530-6000-1-3224, [log in to unmask] 




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