Governança no SUS-BR

De: Rosa Maria Sampaio Vilanova de Carvalho [mailto:rosa.sampaio@saude.gov.br]
Enviada em: terça-feira, 24 de julho de 2007 15:
Assunto: publicação do Banco Mundical sobre Governança em SUS-em Portugues

Saiu a publicação em Portugues "Governança no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) do Brasil: Melhorando a Qualidade do Gasto Público e Gestão de Recursos."

É uma tradução da monografia en ingles que se publicou em febreiro, 07.

versão eletrônica esta disponível no seguinte site do Banco Mundial:

http://www.bancomundial.org.br/index.php/content/view_document/2969.html

Abraços
Rosa

The Wellcome Library

The Wellcome Library: "Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day."

'Wellcome Images'

Free, unlimited access to two thousand years of mankind and medicine in pictures made available through Creative Commons Licence
Teachers, students, academics and the public can now download and use images depicting 2,000 years of mankind and medicine for free, thanks this newly launched website from the Wellcome Trust.
Launched on 15 June 2007, 'Wellcome Images' is the world's leading source of images on the history of medicine, modern biomedical science and clinical medicine. All content has been made available under a Creative Commons Licence, which allows users to copy, distribute and display the image, provided the source is fully attributed and it is used for non-commercial purposes.
Wellcome Images is constantly updated with new clinical, and biomedical and historical images from the Wellcome Library, Europe's leading resource for the study of history of medicine which recently re-launched as part of the new and forthcoming Wellcome Collection.

International Poverty Centre

IPC International Poverty Centre: "Welcome to IPC
The International Poverty Centre (IPC) is a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. IPC is directly linked to the Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), which does research for the Brazilian Government. More... "

Pobreza Crônica

PNUD Brasil: "Em 10 anos, só 27% saíram da pobreza
Pelo menos 73% dos pobres no Brasil permaneceram nessa condição entre 1993 e 2005, aponta estudo do PNUD sobre pobreza crônica

TALITA BEDINELLI

Apenas 27% dos pobres das regiões urbanas do Brasil conseguiram por algum momento escapar da pobreza entre 1993 e 2003. Os 73% restantes estancaram na pobreza crônica, afirma um estudo do Centro Internacional de Pobreza — uma instituição de pesquisa do PNUD, com sede em Brasília, resultado de uma parceria com o IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada)."

Engaging Science: Thoughts, deeds, analysis and action

De: Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG] Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 13 de julho de 2007 11:21
Assunto: [EQ] Engaging Science: Thoughts, deeds, analysis and action

UK - The Wellcome Trust, 2007

Available online PDF [92p.] at: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtx033010.pdf

Topics include public attitudes to science, the role of the media in public engagement, the scientists' perspective, implications for education, linking the public to policy making, and the role of campaigning groups.

“…..The existence of ‘Tom Telescope’, a character explaining Newtonian mechanics to the masses in the 18th century, is testimony to the enduring nature of public interest in science. Yet the nature of the discourse between science and the rest of society has changed radically over the past few decades.
While A Brief History of Time may have emulated Tom Telescope’s success, interactions between the public and science have become increasingly complex.

So what is the relationship between science and the diverse range of individuals and groups that constitute the public? What do we know of public attitudes to science, how they are shaped, and how well the public has been served by public engagement over the past decade?
Do we know what ‘works’, and how best to deliver information or to consult?....”

'The Governance Indicators

: "'The Governance Indicators put to rest the tired assertion that these issues cannot be robustly measured and the lessons drawn cannot be put to subsequent positive use by governments, the development community, civil society and the media.'
John Githongo,
ex-Permanent Secretary, Governance & Ethics, Office of the President of Kenya

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project
reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2006, for six dimensions of governance:

Voice and Accountability
Political Stability and Absence of Violence
Government Effectiveness
Regulatory Quality
Rule of Law
Control of Corruption

The aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. The individual data sources underlying the aggregate indicators are drawn from a diverse variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.
The six aggregate indicators and the underlying data sources can be viewed interactively on the Indicators page of this website. Documentation of the latest update of the WGI can be found in 'Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996–2006.' Further documentation and research using the WGI is available on the Resources page of this website."

WHO Collaborating Centres

De: Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG]
Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 11 de julho de 2007 09:55
Para: EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Assunto: [EQ] WHO Collaborating Centres

WHO Collaborating Centres
Over 900 institutions in over 100 countries supporting WHO programmes
Global Database Website: http://whocc.who.int/

The World Health Organization requires expert advice for overall scientific and technical guidance, as well as for direct support of global, interregional and regional technical cooperation programmes for national health development.

The designation of an institution as a WHO Collaborating Centre can be explored when there has been successful collaboration in
implementing jointly planned activities in support of WHO programmes and, at the same time, there is a concrete perspective
of the continuation of such collaboration.

Definition:
A WHO Collaborating Centre is an institution designated by the Director-General to form part of an international collaborative network carrying out activities in support of the Organizatîon's programmes at all levels.

More on the Collaborating Centres
Table of contents:
1. Historical background
2. Definition
3. Functions and role
4. Management and Evaluation

MENTAL ILLNESS: THE NEXT FRONTIER

MENTAL ILLNESS: THE NEXT FRONTIER
Developing DNA tests for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder will be the focus of a new center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York state. The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics will be established with $25 million--one of the largest gifts in the lab's 117-year history--from the Theodore and Vada Stanley Foundation.
Earlier this year, the Stanleys funded an interdisciplinary center on severe mental illnesses at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Science, 9 March, p. 1351). The new center has a narrower mission: "to unambiguously diagnose patients with psychiatric disorders based on their DNA sequence in 10 years' time," according to a 22 June announcement. That's a tall order, the lab's president Bruce Stillman acknowledges, because so far, only a handful of genetic variants have been strongly linked to psychiatric illnesses. The focus of the center is influenced by the fact that the Stanleys have a son with bipolar disorder, and Cold Spring's chancellor, James Watson, has a son with a "schizophrenialike" disorder, Stillman says.

The lab will use the gift to scale up its genomics efforts and hire scientists to comb DNA sequences from schizophrenia and bipolar patients for risk-related genetic variations. "I think that it is fair to say that we are witnessing a fundamental change in psychiatric genetics research," says David Porteous, a medical geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, U.K., who plans to collaborate with the new center.

The Mary Lasker Papers

Profiles in Science: The Mary Lasker Papers: "In the decades after World War II, Mary Lasker acted as a catalyst for the growth of the world's largest and most successful biomedical research enterprise, with the National Institutes of Health as its centerpiece. She was a well-connected fundraiser and astute lobbyist who through charm and skillful use of the media persuaded congressmen and presidents to provide greatly increased funds for biomedical research. Driven by an unshakeable belief that the nation's wealth could be mobilized to unravel the mysteries of disease and find new cures, she developed a compelling political rationale for federal sponsorship of medical research, built a powerful lobby that won large appropriations for NIH, and pushed the agency into new scientific directions, at times in opposition to the scientific establishment.
The Columbia University Libraries Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the repository for the Mary Lasker Papers, which range from 1940 to 1993. The collection contains correspondence, reports, bulletins, clippings, photographs, awards, and printed material."

Unite For Sight's 5th Annual International Health Conference - International Health Conference

Unite For Sight's 5th Annual International Health Conference - International Health Conference:
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Join 2,000 people interested in public health, global health, international development, medicine,social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, anthropology, and eye care.
This empowering, energizing conference brings together students, doctors, nurses, Peace Corps volunteers, public health, business and nonprofit professionals, anthropologists, policy makers, and others."
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Health Agenda for the Americas Launched In Panama

Health Agenda for the Americas Launched In Panama
PANAMA CITY, Panama, June 5, 2007 (PAHO)—The hemisphere's top health policy authorities have launched the Health Agenda for the Americas, setting out the health priorities the governments propose to tackle over the next decade. The plan was unveiled here before the opening of the 37th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS)./.../

Environmental Burden of Disease: Country profiles

WHO | Environmental Burden of Disease: Country profiles: "Environmental Burden of Disease: Country profiles
What are the country profiles of environmental burden of disease?
For the first time, WHO presents country data on the burden of disease that is preventable through healthier environments. These estimates provide the stepping stone for informed policy making in disease prevention.
The country profiles provide an overview of summary information on selected parameters that describe the environmental health situation of a country, as well as a preliminary estimate of health impacts caused by environmental risks. Such preliminary estimates can be used as an input to more refined estimates of a country's health impacts.
These country estimates are a milestone in a first step to assisting national decision-makers in the sectors of health and environment to set priorities for preventive action. The first step is to quantify burden, and now the second step is for countries to select the appropriate interventions. "/.../

AMA (Public Health) Obesity

AMA (Public Health) Obesity
U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD called it the greatest threat to public health today. It kills more Americans every year than AIDS, all cancers and all accidents combined. And it's causing problems in children that were unthinkable 20 years ago. That is why the American Medical Association (AMA) is working to halt the spread of obesity.
Leaders in the field of preventive health, pediatrics, family practice, nutrition and more, convened at AMA headquarters in Chicago for the first meeting of the AMA Working Group on Managing Childhood Obesity. Their goal: to develop a set of strategies to help physicians more effectively work with families, youth-serving organizations, school health professionals, public health organizations and community groups to reduce overweight and obesity and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity.

The AMA has also been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to produce a series of publications entitled, Roadmaps for Clinical Practice – Case Studies in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Roadmaps help physicians and other health professionals identify and reduce health disparities by integrating focused interventions into routine medical care. The latest edition, Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity is now available online.