Oxfam Stories on Vimeo: Unhealthy profits and unwanted hysterectomies: How unregulated private health care in India is risking women’s lives

http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?p=1374

Bridging the Divide Between Health and Health Care

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1669826

Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve Population Health? Beware the medicalization of population health

 http://www.healthimaging.com/topics/healthcare-economics/jama-beware-medicalization-population-health

 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1669825

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/37953

Australia's domestic response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report

Australia's domestic response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report
"Closing the gap within a generation"

 

Commonwealth of Australia - 20 March 2013

 

Committee Secretary -Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs

Parliament House, Canberra – Australia

Available online at: http://bit.ly/WMGPu4

Closing the Health Equity Gap: Policy Options and Opportunities for Action

Closing the Health Equity Gap:
Policy Options and Opportunities for Action

2013 - ISBN 978 92 4 150517 8
World Health Organization, Geneva , Switzerland

 

Available online PDF [64p.] at:  http://bit.ly/XnEvWl

It’s Time to End Violence Against Women

http://populationaction.org/2013/03/08/its-time-to-end-violence-against-women

 

Celebration of Life for Dr. Clyde Hertzman - March 17, 2013

http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ff5a335143a00900d87de4831&id=ab36681485&e=[UNIQI

How I teach medical students about Social Vaccination and Medical Vaccination

Medical students are familiar with vaccination programs.  So I request them to read  Table 1 ( see below) in this interesting paper and then I discuss the Table with them:  

http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/428.long   

Then I show an informative figure about history of medical vaccination in United States ( see below; the figure is after Table1) to students and explain how Social Development in United States reduced mortality from Measles and Diphtheria several decades before starting of medical vaccination programs.

Epidemiologists are concerned with uncovering the factors in populations that determine who gets sick, who stays healthy, who lives, and who dies. Human life is inherently social, and looking toward our societies and geography can help explain who is healthy or sick, and why.

“Location, location, location” is a mantra that rings true with respect to life expectancy.
  http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/02/19/what-determines-health