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Even in high income countries we have significant socioeconomic and health inequalities. It would be interesting to compare high income countries and find out which has the least inequality and how we can learn what policies to use to reduce these gaps

Today the PAHO Director, Jarbas Barbosa and Executive Secretary ECLAC, Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs launched a joint Policy Brief on the urgency to invest in health systems to recover, recuperate and accelerate towards the achievement of the #SDGs. The report highlights the regression in SDG targets in the order of 32% in Latin America and the Caribbean and calls on countries to sustain financing for social protection, the social determinants of health and the development of health systems based on Primary Health Care (#PHC) to accelerate the recuperation of lost public health gains, reduce poverty and inequalities. Read the full report here! https://lnkd.in/eWuuUN_y

One of our most widely read articles at PLOS GPH journal! Country ownership in global health by Abdisalan M. Noor 1. Country ownership is not yours to ensure, you certainly cannot confer it 2 Do not confuse government with country, or ministry of health with the health system 3. Have a dialogue, ask questions, listen to those who live with the problem 4. ‘Evidentiary’ knowledge and control over funds create power asymmetries 5. You are a helper and an ally, accept these roles and stay true to them 6. The most important voices for change are often the quietest 7. The power of data to change minds is not simply in the ‘quality of the evidence’ but in the ‘change activism’ it catalyzes 8. One size doesn’t fit all, really! 9. Beware of the policy development addicts 10. Harvesting of national data is the silent scandal of global health https://lnkd.in/gTdbaJ-m

📝 Professor Arpana Verma and Professor Sheena Cruickshank are cited in the latest report from the Health & Social Care Select Committee 🔍 This report - the second of ten in the Committee's inquiry into prevention in health and social care - focuses on healthy places 🩺 Professors Verma and Cruickshank both highlighted the importance of co-production of interventions with those communities most affected by poor health 💷 Professor Verma discussed the inter-connected issues of financial, digital, and health poverty - including the impact of the #costoflivingcrisis 🌫 Professor Cruickshank's submission examined the impact of poor air quality on health, and how local communities can be empowered to tackle sources of pollution 👉 Read the report: https://lnkd.in/ewCV9UVG 👉 Read Professor Verma's evidence: https://lnkd.in/eRtZp9Pr 👉 Read Professor Cruickshank's evidence: https://lnkd.in/er-GS8ui #health #healthpolicy #publicpolicy #airpollution #healthandsocialcare

How can researchers support MRFF's intentions to leverage regional, rural and remote research (RRR) to achieve equity in health outcomes and to have a far greater $ value invested in RRR areas? It might be time to reread our May 2024 blog for 6 key tips: https://lnkd.in/guADrnWz #MRFF

The Civil Society Call to Action at the health event organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024 draws the attention to: - Stronger social protection reaching the people who are left behind - The need to tackle the climate emergency - Public-first and person-centered approach across the continuum of care (promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care) - Inclusion and planetary health underpinning global efforts in health - Regulation of private actors in health (careful: profit may overtake equity!). We co-shaped this Call to Action with many other NGOs and the lead of BeCause Health

It is now official! The resolution of Economics of Health for All has now been adopted at the WHA77. The resolution mandates the WHO Secretariat to develop, in consultation with Member States, a strategy on how to implement an economics of health for all approach that allows Member States to better recognize the linkages between health, wellbeing and economy, and, most importantly, to respond to on-going crises in a sustainably manner. Ritu Sadana, Taru Koivisto and Pasi Mustonen - it has been a privilege and pleasure to work with you to achieve this important milestone. https://lnkd.in/dZ7ccb-f #WHA77 #HealthForAll

This is important also for JA PreventNCD where we have a Work Packege on Health in All Policies and specific task for Wellbeing Economy. FYI Dora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir Satu Korhonen Eeva Ollila Katri Sääksjärvi

Here's our latest blog that summarises an MRFF webinar regarding how to boost rural, regional and remote health in research. https://lnkd.in/gs8ZUPic

Today we launch the Better Regulation for Better Health report, show-casing EPHA’s work on politics and health, and offering a comprehensive introduction to the EU’s Better Regulation agenda and its impact on public health. Commercial determinants of health, regulatory stagnation, and shrinking civic space are shaping health policy in the EU, with citizens’ health slipping down the agenda. We must challenge this trend. There is an urgent need for an enhanced and supported participation of civil society in policy-making, for health to be high on the political agenda, and for regulatory reform that prioritises public health over profit. Many thanks to the many individuals who contributed over the years to the BRBH project! ➡️ Read our full report: https://lnkd.in/eaW2R4xr #BRBH #HealthPolicy #CivilSociety #BetterRegulation  UK Research and Innovation University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science Eleanor Brooks Clémentine Richer Delforge Alessandro Gallina Milka Sokolović Frazer Goodwin