PRB's 2007 World Population Data Sheet

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PRB's 2007 World Population Data Sheet

The 2007 World Population Data Sheet was released on Aug. 16, at a press briefing at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC. The data sheet includes up-to-date demographic, health, and environment data for all countries and major world regions. At the same time, PRB released a Population Bulletin highlighting key findings from the data sheet, as well as a policy brief on malnutrition. For more information, contact Ellen Carnevale, director of communications, PRB, ecarnevale@prb.org.



You can download a copy of the 2007 World Population Data Sheet at http://www.prb.org/pdf07/07WPDS_Eng.pdf.

DETERMINE: a new consortium on socio-economical determinants of hea

EuroHealthNet, in close collaboration with the Czech National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), in July 2007 launched a new EU consortium for action on socio-economic determinants of health entitled DETERMINE.
DETERMINE will concentrate on the underlying socio-economic determinants for health. It will build on and take forward existing work in the area of the social determinants of health and on health inequalities in an EU context.

To undertake this work it will establish a consortium of high-level, multi-stakeholder bodies and take forward the work of the WHO Commission on social determinants of health applying it to the EU context.

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) is a collaborating partner in this new project.

The DETERMINE project has a framework and will be implemented in the context of seven work packages:

From Alma-Ata to the Millennium Declaration

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) ruglucia@paho.org EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
Buenos Aires 30-15: From Alma-Ata to the Millennium DeclarationInternational Conference on Health for Development: Rights, Facts and Realities
August 13-17, 2007 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Website: http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/home-ing.html
Close to the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, under which the WHO Member States adopted the Primary Health Care Strategy, the Ministry of Health of the Argentina Republic fosters an international meeting with a view to building up new consensus and promoting global and regional alliances to strengthen health systems, aimed at contributing to the enhancement of health policies for the attainment of the Millennium Development Objectives in 2015.
Issues
· Primary health care and health systems in the current global context.
· Human resources in health for the new millennium.
· Equity in health and financing.
The Sessions Schedule includes:
· Conferences presented by Health Ministers from Brazil, Chile, Spain, Mexico, and Portugal on "New Experiences and Current Health Policies in Primary Health Care".
· Conferences with International Speakers.
· Presentation by 20 countries of National Policies on Primary Health Care focused on the following issues :
1. Health and gender policy
2. Environmental health policy
3. Human resources policy on health
4. Health policy for the epidemiological transition
5. Drug policy
Download the PDF
Document: EXECUTE SUMMARY. Preliminary document for discusión. "Towards Integral Healthcare for all" .
Dr Chan: high-quality health care must reach the poor 16 August 2007 -- In her first major address on primary health care, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan stressed that this is the most promising way to meet the Millennium Development Goals. "If we want better health to work as a poverty reduction strategy, we must reach the poor. And we must do so with appropriate, high-quality care," she told a primary health care conference in Argentina. Speech: http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2007/20070816_argentina/en/index.html
Related Links:
PAHO Web Page for the 25th Anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration
PAHO Press release: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr070816.htm
Country Experiences on Primary Health care: http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/experiencias-ing.html

World Population Ageing 2007

World Population Ageing 2007
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The Population Division of the United Nations, August 2007
About World Population Ageing 2007
Table of Contents
Executive Summary – Available in (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish)
Summary Tables
The report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes key indicators of the ageing process for each of the major areas, regions and countries of the world.

The contents of this report underscore four major findings:
· Population ageing is unprecedented, a process without parallel in the history of humanity. A population ages when increases in the proportion of older persons (that is, those aged 60 years or over) are accompanied by reductions in the proportion of children (persons under age 15) and then by declines in the proportions of persons in the working ages (15 to 59). At the world level, the number of older persons is expected to exceed the number of children for the first time in 2047. In the more developed regions, where population ageing is far advanced, the number of children dropped below that of older persons in 1998.
· Population ageing is pervasive since it is affecting nearly all the countries of the world. Population ageing results mainly from reductions of fertility that have become virtually universal. The resulting slowdown in the growth of the number of children coupled with the steady increase in the number of older persons has a direct bearing on both the intergenerational and intragenerational equity and solidarity that are the foundations of society.
· Population ageing is profound, having major consequences and implications for all facets of human life. In the economic area, population ageing will have an impact on economic growth, savings, investment, consumption, labour markets, pensions, taxation and intergenerational transfers. In the social sphere, population ageing influences family composition and living arrangements, housing demand, migration trends, epidemiology and the need for health-care services. In the political arena, population ageing may shape voting patterns and political representation.
· Population ageing is enduring. Since 1950 the proportion of older persons has been rising steadily, passing from 8 per cent in 1950 to 11 per cent in 2007, and is expected to reach 22 per cent in 2050 (figure I). As long as old age mortality continues to decline and fertility remains low, the proportion of older persons will continue to increase.
Chapters
Introduction
I. Demographic determinants of population ageing
II. Magnitude and speed of population ageing
III. The changing balance among age groups
IV. Demographic profile of the older population
V. Socio-economic characteristics of the older population
VI. Conclusion
References

Autonomy x Accountability: A delicate balance

Autonomy vs. accountability: A delicate balance
AMA Leader Commentary. By Ronald M. Davis, MD, Aug. 20, 2007.
AMA LEADER COMMENTARY
A few words about current events in medical practice

SEE ARCHIVES
A message to all physicians from AMA President Ronald M. Davis, MD.
OK, let's begin with the obvious -- physicians are increasingly unhappy in their medical practices. If you want confirmatory data, you can find them in the Physician Morale Survey conducted by the American College of Physician Executives in July 2006. Among 1,200 physicians across the country who responded to the survey, 46% rated their "overall morale as a physician working in U.S. health care" as five or lower on a scale of one (very low morale) to 10 (very high). When asked to judge the morale of physicians they supervise or work with, 59% gave a score of five or lower./.../

Treating a sleepless nation: More than 50 million toss and turn

Treating a sleepless nation: More than 50 million toss and turn
Adequate sleep and good health go hand-in-hand, but patients should be cautioned not to panic over an occasional bad night.
By Susan J. Landers, AMNews staff. Aug. 20, 2007.
The quest for a good night's sleep brings many patients to their physicians' offices. As well it should. Sleep's virtues have long been known. Consider Shakespeare's lines from Macbeth:
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Sleep is all that and more.
Science has delved into its mysteries in recent decades and found that sleep is essential to survival. Some experts believe sleep allows the body to repair itself. Many cells increase protein production during this time and important biochemical and physiological processes also take place, according to the National Sleep Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group.
With this article Sleep patterns change with age Physiologic changes in sleep
Discuss on Sermo See related content
"We now have a lot of data that tell us that sleep is important for good health," adds Michael Sateia, MD, director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Sleep Disorders Center in Lebanon, N.H. Beyond the all-too-familiar mental blur that overtakes the drowsy and affects job performance, interpersonal relationships and driving skills, a lack of sleep can cause physiological distress, said Dr. Sateia, a former president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
"This may include impairment in immune function and in carbohydrate metabolism. There is some interesting work suggesting that sleep deprivation may be associated with disturbances in appetite regulation and conceivably contribute to obesity," he noted./...]/

Glaucoma and Alzheimer's May Have Common Origins and Treatment

LONDON, Aug. 6 -- A combination of drugs that target the amyloid-beta pathway implicated in Alzheimer's disease appear to be highly effective against glaucoma as well, at least in animal models, investigators here reported.
Action Points
Explain to patients that current methods for treating glaucoma, focused on controlling intraocular pressure to prevent nerve damage in the optic pathways, are effective, but the visual-field narrowing effects of glaucoma may progress in some patients despite normal intraocular tension.
Explain that researchers have found that drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease may also prove helpful against glaucoma.
Note, however, that studies with these drugs have only been done in rats and use in humans may be a long way off.
Amyloid-b peptide, found to accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, accelerated the programmed death of retinal ganglion cells in rat models of glaucoma, but its action was prevented by three drugs that inhibit Ab formation and aggregation, wrote M. Francesca Cordeiro, M.D., of University College London, and colleagues. /.../

History, principles, and practice of health and human rights

History, principles, and practice of health and human rights
Sofia Gruskin, Edward J Mills , and Daniel Tarantola,
(Recommended by Marcelo Colominas [mgcolominas@gigared.com])
Summary
Individuals and populations suffer violations of their rights that affect health and wellbeing. Health professionals have a part to play in reduction and prevention of these violations and ensuring that health-related policies and practices promote rights. This needs efforts in terms of advocacy, application of legal standards, and public-health programming. We discuss the changing views of human rights in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and propose further development of the right to health by increased practice, evidence, and action./.../

Income Gap is a Matter of Childhood Life and Death

Income Gap is a Matter of Childhood Life and Death - Breaking Medical News + CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today:
"ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 1 -- Although there was an overall drop in childhood death rates from all causes from 1969 through 2000, most of the declines occurred among children from upper income brackets. Action Points

Explain to patients that economic disparities in healthcare, housing quality, nutrition, education and other factors may all contribute to higher death rates among poor children than children from wealthy families.
The relative overall disparity in child mortality across socioeconomic quintiles widened from 25% in 1969-1970 to 34% in 1988-1990 and 43% in 1998-2000,' wrote Gopal K. Singh, Ph.D., M.S., M.Sc., and Michael D. Kogan, Ph.D., of the Health Resources and Services Administration in an early online release from the Sept. issue of the American Journal of Public Health. " /.../

The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes

The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes: "You've reached the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. We have over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors, and more are added daily. Don't forget to stop by our Forums for answers to your questions about quotations."