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Title of the publication :

Promoting the Public’s Health: EUPHA 2005 conference book.

Author(s) :

H. Noack, D. Kahr-Gottlieb

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

Editors. Verlag für Gesundheitsförderung, Gamburg, 2006.

More information: dvkahr@utanet.at


Title of the publication :

Workplace Health Promotion in Europe – the role of national health policies and strategies.

Author(s) :

Riitta-Maija Hämäläinen

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki



Title of the publication :

UK Faculty of Public Health: FAT – position statement.

Author(s) :

Faculty of Public Health, London

Date of publication:

2006

More information: http://www.fph.org.uk


Title of the publication :

Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2006: The changing landscape of health research for development

Author(s) :

Global Forum for Health Research

Description :

Available online as PDf file [108p.] at:
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/files......



Title of the publication :

Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Author(s) :

Board on Global Health

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

US Institute of Medicine IOM

More information: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11797.html


Title of the publication :

Extension of Social Protection in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bridging Research and Practices

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

Cadernos de Saúde Pública vol.22  suppl. Rio de Janeiro

More information: http://www.ensp.fiocruz.br/csp/pesi.html


Title of the publication :

Research Report: The Ethical Recruitment of Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Lessons from Abroad and Options for Canada

Author(s) :

Tom McIntosh, Renée Torgerson and Nathan Klassen.

Date of publication:

January 2007

Description :

Canadian Policy Research Networks CPRN Research Report H|11. 43 pp.

More information: http://www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc=1611


Title of the publication :

Seven habits of highly effective global public–private health partnerships: Practice and potential

Author(s) :

Kent Buse, and Andrew M. Harmer, Overseas Development Institute - ODI , London, UK

Date of publication:

January 2007

Description :

Social Science & Medicine, Volume 64, Issue 2 , January 2007, Pages 259-271
Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/2put3f
ODI Briefing Paper 15, January 2007 at: http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/bp_jan07_global_health.pdf



Title of the publication :

Ninth Futures Forum on health systems governance and public participation

Author(s) :

WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

 

More information: http://www.networks.nhs.uk/uploads/07/01/9threporfinal.pdf


Title of the publication :

Health Human Resources Policy in the 21st Century

Author(s) :

Canadian Public Policy

Date of publication:

January 2007

More information: http://economics.ca/cpp/en/special2007.php


Title of the publication :

Acta Informatica Medica

Description :

Journal of the society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina, issue 1-64
Articles include:

  • application of the surface coil in the magnetic resonance review of the orbital vessels anatomy
  • the pathogenicity of bacterial approach: a statistical approach
  • Some of advantages of off pump CABG vs. on pump CABG
Model of databases for evaluation of chronic pelvic pain related to appendicitis


Title of the publication :

Italian Journal of Public Health 3(3-4)

Date of publication:

Winter 2006

Description :

Issue devoted to Public Health Genomics. Guest editors: Stefania Boccia, Angela Brand, Helmut Brand, Muin J. Khoury, Peter Schröder, Ron Zimmern



Title of the publication :

Health insurance for the poor: initial impacts of Vietnam's health care fund for the poor

Author(s) :

Adam Wagstaff

Date of publication:

 

Description :

World Bank, Impact Evaluation Series ; no. 11Policy, Research Working Paper ; no. WPS 4134

More information: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default......


Title of the publication :

DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF PRO-POOR GROWTH: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences

Author(s) :

Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord

Date of publication:

2007

Description :

A copublication of The World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan -  2007
Washington DC USA

More information: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPGI/Resources/PPG_eBook.pdf


Title of the publication :

Sourcebook for Evaluating Global and Regional Partnership Programs: Indicative Principles and Standards

Date of publication:

2007

Description :

IEG–World Bank Washington, D.C.
Available online as PDF file [148p.] at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org....



Title of the publication :

Global health partnerships: the UK contribution to health in developing countries

Author(s) :

Nigel Crisp

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

UK Secretaries of State for Health and International Development

More information: http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/14/30/85/04143085.pdf


Title of the publication :

What Drives Health-Care Spending Priorities? An International Survey of Health-Care Professionals

Author(s) :

Glenn Salkeld, David Henry, Suzanne Hill, Danielle Lang, Nick Freemantle, Jefferson D'Assunção

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

This study was funded by the World Health Organization and AusAID, the Australian Government's overseas aid program.
PLoS Med 4(2): e94 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040094 - February 20, 2007

More information: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/p.....


Title of the publication :

Health human resources planning and the production of health: Development of an extended analytical framework for needs based health human resources planning

Author(s) :

Stephen Birch, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
George Kephart, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gail Tomblin-Murphy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Linda O’Brien-Pallas, University of Toronto
Rob Alder, Med-Emerg International Inc., Toronto
Adrian MacKenzie, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date of publication:

January 2007

Description :

SEDAP Research Paper No. 168

More information: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~sedap/p/sedap168.pdf


Title of the publication :

Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions

Author(s) :

Karen Davis, Commonwealth Fund, New York, USA

Date of publication:

17 February, 2007

Description :

BMJ  2007;334:346-348, doi:10.1136/bmj.39091.493588.BE

More information: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7589/346


Title of the publication :

Rethinking Equal Access: Agency, Quality, and Norms

Author(s) :

Jennifer Prah Ruger -Yale University - School of Medicine

Date of publication:

2007

Description :

Global Public Health, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 78-96, 2007

More information: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957973


Title of the publication :

Community Health Centers  - A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen

Author(s) :

Bonnie Lefkowitz

Date of publication:

January 2007

Description :

Rutgers University Press
Preface and Chapter 1 available online PDF [20p.]

More information: http://www.cfah.org/pdfs/Bonnie-Lefkowitz-Community-Health-Centers.pdf


Title of the publication :

The BIAS FREEFramework: A practical tool for identifying and eliminating social biases in health research

Author(s) :

Mary Anne Burke and Margrit Eichler

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva, Switzerland

More information: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/002__What%20.....


Title of the publication :

The Veterans Health Administration: An American Success Story?

Author(s) :

ADAM OLIVER - RCUK Academic Fellow, LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Date of publication:

2007

Description :

Milbank Memorial Fund, Volume 85, Number 1

More information: http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8501feat.html


Title of the publication :

Neurological disorders: Public health challenges

Author(s) :

World Health Organization (WHO)

Date of publication:

February 2007

More information: http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/neurologi.....


Title of the publication :

THE POLITICS OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS IN RUSSIA AND BRAZIL:
HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONS, CULTURE, AND STATE CAPACITY

Author(s) :

Eduardo J. Gómez – Politics and Governance Group

Date of publication:

June 2006

Description :

Department of Population and International Health
Working Paper No. 4 -- HARVARD INITIATIVE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

More information: http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/documents/WorkingPaper4.pdf


Title of the publication :

Primary Health Care Research Impact Project: Final Report Stage 1

Author(s) :

PHC RIS Research Team: Associate Professor Libby Kalucy,
Associate Professor Ellen McIntyre, Eleanor Jackson Bowers
Consultant: Professor Richard Reed

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

Primary Health Care Research & Information Service -  Flinders University in South Australia

More information: http://www.phcris.org.au/phplib/filedownload.php?file=/elib......


Title of the publication :

Quality or equality?  The Norwegian experience with medical monopolies

Author(s) :

Knut Rasmussen, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of North Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Troms
Dag Bratlid, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, St. Olavs University Hospital; Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Diseases,  Faculty of Medicine, the Norwegian

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

University for Science and Technology, Norway
BMC Health Services Research – February 2007, 7:20 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-7-20

More information: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-7-20.pdf


Title of the publication :

Discrimination – a threat to public health

Date of publication:

2006

Description :

National Institute of Public Health (FHI) – Sweden

More information: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/r200622_diskrimination_eng.pdf


Title of the publication :

Towards a more health promoting health service: Summary of study material, government bills, parliamentary decisions, draft indicators and examples of application

Date of publication:

December 2006

Description :

Swedish National Institute of Public Health

More information: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200630_health_promoting_0702.pdf


Title of the publication :

The Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2006

Author(s) :

UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION

Date of publication:

March 2007

Description :

Press Release March 1st 2007: http://www.incb.org/pdf/....
Full Report - English PDF [120 p.]  at: http://www.incb.org/pdf/e....
Bulletin of the World Health Organization



Title of the publication :

Strategic management of the health workforce in developing countries: what have we learned?

Author(s) :

Scott A Fritzen - LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Date of publication:

February 2007

Description :

Human Resources for Health – February 2007, 5:4     doi:10.1186/1478-4491-5-4

More information: http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/5/1/4


Title of the publication :

Our unequal society

Author(s) :

Fiona Godlee

Date of publication:

3 March 2007

Description :

BMJ  2007;334, doi:10.1136/bmj.39140.571759.43

More information: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7591/0


Title of the publication :

Tools for Knowledge and Learning: A Guide for Development and Humanitarian Organisations

Author(s) :

Ben Ramalingam

Date of publication:

Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. July 2006

Description :

Available online as PDF file [91p.] at: http://www.odi.org.uk/Rapid/Publications/Documents/KM_toolkit_web.pdf

More information: http://www.odi.org.uk/Rapid/Publications/Tools_KM.html


Title of the publication :

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006

Author(s) :

United Nations, New York

Date of publication: July 2006
Description :

 

More information: http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/......


Title of the publication : Cultural Competency in Health: a guide for policy, partnerships and participation
Author(s) : National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
Date of publication: 2006
Description : Download publication: » Download: Cultural Competency in health: A guide for policy, partnerships and participation (PDF, 577kb)
More information: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/hp25syn.htm

Title of the publication :

Smoking and inequalities

Author(s) : Michael Marmot, International Institute for Society and Health, University College London, London, UK
Date of publication: 14 July 2006
Description :

The Lancet - DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68976-9

More information:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/......



Title of the publication :

Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking:  indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America

Author(s) :

Prabhat Jha. Centre for Global Health Research, St Michael's Hospital, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Richard Peto, Jillian Boreham, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Witold Zatonski, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Martin J Jarvis, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Alan D Lopez, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Date of publication:  
Description :  
More information: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/


Title of the publication : Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: part 1
Author(s) :

Ronald Labonte, Globalization and Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Matthew Sanger, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Date of publication: 2006
Description :

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2006;60:655-661; doi:10.1136/jech.2005.037895

More information: http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/60/8/655?etoc


Title of the publication :

Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business

Author(s) : Board on Health Sciences Policy (HSP)
Date of publication: 2006
Description :

US National Academies of Sciences
Faith Mitchell, Ph.D. -Senior Program Officer
The Institute of Medicine
500 Fifth St., NW Washington, D.C. 20001 202-334-3352

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Title of the publication : Quest for the Cure
Author(s) : Erika Check
Date of publication: July/August 2006
Description : FOREIGN POLICY [published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]
More information: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3494


Title of the publication : Health Disparities: A Selected Bibliography
Author(s) : From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Date of publication: January 2000–January 2005
Description :

Health Disparities Bibliography (PDF–595K) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/healthdisparities/pdf/biblography.pdf

More information: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/healthdisparities/


Title of the publication : THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Author(s) :

Canadian Institutes for Health Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Date of publication: 2005
Description : A Canadian Snapshot of Fields of Study and Innovative Approaches to Understanding and Addressing Health Issues
Available online as PDF file [146p.] at: http://www.ahprc.dal.ca/English%20Final.pdf
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Title of the publication : Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
Author(s) : A report by the UK Evaluation Forum, supported by the Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
Date of publication: May 2006
Description : Available online as PDF file [52p.] at: http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/images/project/Medicalr.pdf
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Title of the publication :

Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series

Author(s) :

Editors, Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett.
Board on Health Care Services (HCS) ; Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Date of publication: July 2006
Description :

Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11623.html

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Title of the publication :

What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce consumption of foods high in saturated fats and other energy-dense foods for preventing and treating obesity?

Author(s) : Health Evidence Network (HEN) - WHO Regional Office for Europe
Date of publication: July 2006
Description : Available online as PDF file [25p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/document/E88909.pdf
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Title of the publication :

Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases:  Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Author(s) : Ernst R. Berndt, MIT Sloan School of Management and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Rachel Glennerster, MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Michael R. Kremer, Harvard University, Brookings Institution, Center for Global Development, and (NBER)
Jean Lee, Harvard University
Ruth Levine, Center for Global Development
Georg Weizsäcker, London School of Economics
Heidi Williams, Harvard University
Date of publication: July 2006
Description :

CID, Center for International Development, Harvard University,Working Paper No. 127. Available online as PDF file [45p.] at: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/pdf/127.pdf

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Title of the publication :

The state's role in promoting population health:  Public health concerns in Canada, USA, UK, and Sweden

Author(s) : Dennis Raphael, School of Health Policy and Management, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Toba Bryant, Centre for Research in Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Date of publication: August 2006
Description :

Health Policy - Volume 78, Issue 1 , 22 - August 2006 

More information: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.09.002

Title of the publication :

Health, security and the risk society

Author(s) :

Professor Colin McInnes, Department of International Politics, University of Wales Aberystwyth
The Nuffield Trust - The Nuffield Health & Social Services Fund
UK Global Health Programme

Date of publication: 2005
Description : Available online as PDF file at: http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/ecomm/files/HSecrisksoc.pdf
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Title of the publication :

10 health questions about the new EU neighbours

Author(s) :

Albena Arnaudova

Date of publication: 2006
Description :

The WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2006
Available online as PDF file [260p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E88202.pdf

More information: http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/InformationSources/.....

Title of the publication :

Moving Population and Public Health Knowledge Into Action

Author(s) :

CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health Canadian Population Health Initiative

Date of publication: 2006
Description :

Available online at: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/30739.html

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Title of the publication :

Policy Review
Virulent Epidemics and Scope of Healthcare Workers' Duty of Care

Author(s) :

Daniel K. Sokol, Medical Ethics Unit, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Date of publication: 2006
Description :

US CDC Emerg Infect Dis Volume 12, Number 8–August 2006

More information: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no08/06-0360.htm

Title of the publication :

Health Disparities & the Body Politic A Series of International Symposia

Author(s) :

Published by the Harvard School of Public Health

Date of publication: 2005
Description :

Boston, Massachusetts, USA - President and Fellows, Harvard College, 2005
Available for downloading at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/book

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Title of the publication :

Alcohol in Europe - A Public Health Perspective

Author(s) :

Peter Anderson and Ben Baumberg

Date of publication: June 2006
Description :

A report for the European Commission
Peter Anderson and Ben Baumberg, Institute of Alcohol Studies, UK - June 2006
Report http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/news_alcoholineurope_en.htm
Summary available at: http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/doc/alcoholineu_summary_en.pdf

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