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 | | Registrations for Kathmandu Conference, 13-17 november | Preparations for the upcoming annual conference of The Network: TUFH are going smooth. The conference secretariat has received numerous abstracts and registrations and is doing its utmost best to handle them all in time. You will be informed through your personal registration page when changes have been made in your abstract or registration status. Please bear in mind that your registration only becomes final after payment of the fee as mentioned on your personal registration page. Hotel reservations will only be made for you after payment of this fee.
If you need more information, please check the conference website www. the-networktufh.org/conference or contact the Conference secretariat
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| | Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis | In this Article, published in The Lancet of April 2010 an analysation of all data sources available for government spending on health in developing countries is done.
They conclude that in order to address the negative effect of development assistance for health (DAH) on domestic government health spending, a strong standardised monitoring of government health expenditures and government spending in other health-related sectors is needed.
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| | Implementing family practice research in countries with limited resources | Implementing family practice research in countries with limited resources: a stepwise model experienced in Crete, Greece
Family Practice Advance Access published November 1, 2009
The need for a cost-effective decision-making process is increasingly seen as a challenge within modern family practice. The role of family practice research is well recognized in countries with readily available resources and capacity. However, the situation is different in a number of countries with limited financial resources and current low research capacity. This article reports on an empirical model of 10 steps developed and applied in Crete, Greece. It aims to exchange views on how to better design and undertake actions in order to develop future family practice research in countries with limited resources.
Link to Full Text Article
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| | Reminder Abstract Submission and Early Registration Deadline June 1st | Participants for the annual conference in Kathmandu, Nepal (November 13-17 2010) are invited to submit their abstracts before the submission deadline of June 1st . You have still some days to submit your abstract for thematic poster sessions, didactics and mini-workshops.
Participants that want to benefit from the early registration fees, are invited to register and pay before June 1st . After June 2nd, registration fees will increase with USD 50. Please check our conference website for more information: www.the-networktufh.org/conference
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| | Lancet announces WONCA's 19th World Conference and the Network TUFH conference in Nepal | In the Comment "Family Medicine's commitment to the MDGs", published in The Lancet of 8th may, Jan De Maeseneer (secretary general), Chris van Weel and Richard Roberts draw once again the attention to the difficulties to meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015 and the importance of Primary Health Care in this matter.
Also the WONCA's 19th World Conference (to be held in Cancun, Mexico, on May 19–23, 2010) is announced in this article.
Family medicine's commitment to the MDGs
In the opening speech of the WONCA world conference, Jan De Maeseneer talked about the necessary commitment of the Primary Health Care to meet the Millennium Development goals .
He also states that a shift is needed from Family Physicians working as individual caretakers to Family Physicians working in multidisciplinary teams with an eye for the needs of the local community. Medical education should be more focused on this.
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| | FAIMER-Open University-WFME Distance Learning Modules | The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®), The Open University Centre for Education in Medicine (OUCEM) in the United Kingdom and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME), collaborated on a series of distance learning modules in medical education. Eight modules have been developed under the theme of “Self-review and Accreditation.”
The second module, Organizing a Self Review, begins on April 19, 2010. Registration is now open, and we invite you to sign up while space is still available.
Students' responses to the first module (Standards for Medical Education) are favorable and they are recommending the second module to colleagues and associates. One student said distance learning has been a great experience and that she is learning new things daily.
Visit the FAIMER website at http://www.faimer.org/distancelearning.html for additional information on the distance learning modules. If you have any questions, please email at inquiry@faimer.org.
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| | Homosexuals and human rights | "The Executive Committee of the Network: Towards Unity for Health, is concerned about the actual proposals that are discussed in parliaments preparing laws that would punish gay-people, or effect in one way or another their integrity, or limit their possibilities to develop themselves and participate in society. The fundamental values the Network adheres to teach us against intolerance, injustice, hatred and violence. Society needs laws that protect people, not ones that humiliate, ridicule and persecute them. We call upon NGOs and donors not to support governments that violate human rights of homosexual people, and that humiliate, ridicule and persecute them".
Sources
African letter to Ugandan President to throw out Anti-Homosexual Bill
Ugandan church leader brands anti-gay bill 'genocide':
Human Rights Impact Assessment of Uganda's Anti-homosexuality Bill By Sylvia Tamale, The Dean of Law at Uganda's Makerere University
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| | Conference News: New Registration Fees | To attrack a significant number of participants from Nepal and other SAARC Countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) for The Network: TUFH conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, the conference organisers offer new registration fees for participants from these countries.
These participants can also benefit from partial registration for the conference.
Take a look at the New Conference Registration Fees
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| | Reminder Early Bird Registration Deadline | To benefit from the early bird registration fees, you have to register and pay before the deadline of June 1, 2010!
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| | Call for abstracts Kathmandu Conference | We warmly invite you to submit abstracts for The Network: TUFH conference in Kathmandu, Nepal (November 13-17).
Submission deadline is June 1, 2010.
You are requested to send your abstract/proposal for mini-workshop/proposal for didactic session through the Online Registration Forms | | Read further >> | | |
| | Education for Health April 2010 | The Network: TUFH journal Education for Health has published its first issue of 2010; Volume 23: Issue 1.
We invite you to view the Table of Contents for this issue. The articles are available to download for free.
More information on the articles in this issue can be read in the Co-Editors' Notes 23:1.
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| | Contact details Ghent Office | As announced in the previous Alert, the Office of The Network: TUFH has moved to Ghent University.
Contact details of the new Office are
University Hospital, building 1K3
De Pintelaan 185
B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
Tel +32 9 332 1234 (not 8181 as mentioned in the new issue of The Newsletter!)
Fax +32 9 4967
Email secretariat-network@ugent.be | | Read further >> | | |
| | Introducing the new Network: TUFH Office in Ghent, Belgium | As of March 1, 2010, as announced in the Alert of last February, The Network: TUFH office has moved to Ghent, Belgium.
We herewith would like to introduce the staff of The Network: TUFH Office in Ghent; Mrs. K. de Backer, Mrs. S. de Backere and Mrs. J. van den Bulcke
The new contact details are as follows:
The Network: TUFH Office
UGent University Hospital, 1K3
De Pintelaan 185
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
Tel: + 32 (0)9 332 12 34
Fax: + 32 (0)9 332 49 67
E: secretariat-network@ugent.be
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| | Network: TUFH 2010 Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal | Advancing Quality through Partnerships of Health Professions Education and Health Services Institutions.
Dates: November 13 - 17, 2010
Conference venue: Soaltee Crown Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal
Conference co-host: B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Conference co-sponsor: Kathmandu University, School of Medical Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post-Conference excursion to B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal on November 18 - 20, 2010
* Information is now online available
* Online registration
* Submission of abstracts/proposals
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| | Network: TUFH 2010 Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal - February 2010 | We invite you to attend the Network: Towards Unity for Health (The Network: TUFH) 2010 conference in Kathmandu, Nepal from November 13 - 17. The topic of the conference is: Advancing Quality through Partnerships of Health Professions Education and Health Services Institutions. The conference will be followed by a post-conference excursion to B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (including field visits) from November 18 - 20.
We are convinced that the 2010 conference will be a unique opportunity for international participants to gather, to get acquainted with the Network: TUFH as a global organisation in general and the Nepali health care system, the beauty of Nepal and the Nepali people in particular.
More information about the conference, registration and abstracts submission will become available by the end of February. | | Read further >> | | |
| | December issue of the Newsletter has been delayed - February 2010 | | As you probably noticed, there has been no December issue of the Network: TUFH Newsletter. This has two reasons: the editorial team could not work at the Newsletter because of personal reasons, but we also would like to publish our Newsletter in March of this year, because there are important changes on their way and in March we can inform you on this. ‘See’ you in March. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Network: TUFH Office moves to Ghent, Belgium - February 2010 | Since the inception of The Network (then: ‘of Community-Oriented Educational Institutions for Health Sciences’) in 1978 the Secretariat (later: the Office) of the organization has been based at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. This was possible thanks to the uninterrupted and generous support by Maastricht’s Faculty of Medicine. However, after 30 years this support expired. The Executive Committee of The Network: TUFH is very happy that Ghent University, Belgium has offered to adopt the Office of the organization as of March 1, 2010. Only with respect to the organization of the upcoming Network: TUFH Conference in Nepal you may still find yourself in contact with staff at Maastricht University.
Note that for the time being the secretariat of Education for Health will remain in Maastricht and can still be reached at efh@network.unimaas.nl.
In the course of February we will introduce the staff of the Network: TUFH Office in Ghent and inform you about the new contact details.
It has been a privilege for staff in the Maastricht Network: TUFH Office - including Ine Kuppen, Pauline Vluggen, Gerard Majoor, Yoka Cerfontaine, Marion Stijnen and Ingrid Melters - to work with you and we have greatly enjoyed the personal relationships with many of you. We are most grateful for those many years of warm and rewarding cooperation with people from all over the world.
We know that the staff at the new Office in Ghent is eager and ready to take over and we wish them all success with the new start of the Office! | | Read further >> | | |
| | Victims of the Suicide Attack in Mogadishu | The Executive Committee of the Network: Towards Unity for Health wants to express its solidarity with the family of the victims that died at the suicide bomb attack at the Shamohotel in Mogadishu (Somalia) on 3th of December, 2009.
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| | Interesting reading material - September 2009 |
Global patterns of mortality in young people: A systematic analysis of population health data by George C Patton, Carolyn Coffey, Susan M Sawyer, Russell M Viner, Dagmar M Haller, Krishna Bose, Theo Vos, Jane Ferguson, Colin D Mathers
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Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector: Tool to improve responsiveness to women's needs
World Health Organization, Department of Gender, Women and Health, 2009
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Violence prevention: the evidence
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| | Global Health Educational Materials - August 2009 | | The Global Health Education Consortium is pleased to make available to The Network: TUFH members a wealth of educational materials on a wide variety of global health topics. All these resources are open acces, available for free and without passwords or login requirements. | | Read further >> | | |
| | The London Deanery E-learning for Clinical Teachers - August 2009 | | The Modules cover core topics in clinical teaching: Feedback; supervision; workplace-based teaching and assessment; diversity and equal opportunities; career development; appraisal; lecturing; small group teaching; interprofessional education and setting learning objectives. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Ugandan Child Health Project Training Manual - August 2009 | | This manual for Community Owned Resource Persons (CORPs) contains the information CORPs can use to help rural communities to improve the health of children under the age of five years. | | Read further >> | | |
| | The Network: TUFH 2009 Conference has been cancelled - July 2009 | | The Executive Committee of the Network: TUFH regrets to inform you that on July 1, 2009 the decision was made to cancel the upcoming annual Conference and General Meeting in Amman, Jordan. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Fellowships for Threatened Academics: Professors, Researchers and Lecturers – June 2009 | | The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Updates student electives available - May 2009 | The Network: TUFH provides a list of student electives
offered by Full and Associate Member Institutions on the Internet. This list is available and recently updated at:
http://www.the-networktufh.org/what_we_offer/studentelectives.asp
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| | Vacancy "mentor-family physician" - May 2009 | | The Primafamed-project is looking for a "mentor-family physician" for supervision and mentoring of trainees in family medicine in Rwanda (Africa). | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting websites - May 2009 |
FIMA - Foundation for Integrated Medicine in Africa, previously known as Organized Medicine Foundation (OMF) is a registered Canadian charitable foundation geared towards delivering integrated medicine to rural communities in Africa, treating people regardless of race, religion, political views or sex.
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| | Interesting reading material - May 2009 |
Exploring the impact of primary health care research by Libby Kalucy, Eleanor Jackson Bowers, Ellen McIntyre, Ann-Louise Hordacre and Richard Reed.
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Health inequalities. Third report of session 2008-2009 by House of Commons Health Committee.
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Investing in hospitals of the future by Bernd Rechel, Stephen Wright, Nigel Edwards, Barrie Dowdeswell and Martin McKee.
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Opening up public health: a strategy of information and communication technology to support population health by Prof. Daniel and Pascale Allotey.
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Why do medical graduates choose rural careers? By J.A Henry, B.J. Edwards and B. Crotty.
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Inequality, poverty and social policy: Recent trends in Chile by Osvaldo Larrañaga, University of Chile.
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| | Amman amendment - March 2009 | The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation at its meeting in January 2009, formulated a draft resolution on “Primary health care, including health system strengthening”.
This is a very good document, but from The Network: Towards Unity for Health, we want to propose an amendment to point 1 (5):
"To train adequate numbers of health workers, including family physicians, primary care nurses and allied health professionals, to respond effectively to people's health needs and expectations through educational programs and continuous professional development and through high functioning multidisciplinary primary health care teams."
The draft resolution can be found here, under Amman Amendment.
May we ask you to contact urgently your ministry of health, and ask them, to introduce already now this amendment to WHO Headquarters in Geneva, so that it can be discusses at the World Health Assembly in May 2009. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Online discussion on global public health - February 2009 | The UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are organizing a two- part, four-week online discussion on global public health in preparation for the Economic and Social Council's 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, to be held in Geneva in July.
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| | African Journal of primary health care and family medicine - February 2009 | | OpenJournal Publishing launched the African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine (PHCFM) at the Primafamed Conference in Kampala, Uganda in November 2008. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Network: TUFH 2009 conference - February 2009 | Achieving Quality in Health Care: Challenges for Education, Research and Service Delivery
Dates: October 10 - October 15, 2009
Conference venue: Holiday Inn Hotel, Amman, Jordan
Conference co-host: Center for Educational Development, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Post-conference excursion to the Faculty of Medicine, Mu'tah University, Karak, Jordan on October 16, 2009
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| | Interesting reading material - March 2009 |
Improving patient safety in the EU assessing the expected effects of three policy areas for future action by Annalijn Conklin, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Han de Vries, Evi Hatziandreu -Health and Consumer Protection Commission (DG SANCO)
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Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia - a systematic review by John Wakerman, John S Humphreys, Robert Wells, Pim Kuipers, Philip Entwistle and Judith Jones
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Recruiting medical students to rural practice perspectives of medical students and rural recruiters by Leah Jutzi MD, Kelly Vogt MD, Erin Drever MD and Jeff Nisker MD
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World malaria report 2008
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Human rights, health and development by Daniel Tarantola, Andrew Byrnes, Michael Johnson, Lynn Kemp, Anthony Zwi and Sofia Gruskin
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Engaging the public in healthcare policy: Why do it? And what are the challenges?
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How do deliberative processes achieve meaningful public engagement?
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General budget support in developing countries: ensuring the health sector's interest by Adélio Fernandes Antunes, Guy Carrin and David B. Evans
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Health care reform in the United States by David Carey, Bradley Herring and Patrick Lenain
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| | Call for papers on climate change and rural child health - February 2009 | | Are you a researcher, activist, practitioner or policy-maker with an interest in climate change and making a difference to one of the most vulnerable groups in society - children living in rural and remote communities? | | Read further >> | | |
| | Vacancy family physician - February 2009 | | Hlotse, Lesotho - The Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance (LeBoHA), in association with the Boston University Department of Family Medicine and Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) is seeking an experienced, highly motivated family medicine physician to serve as faculty in the LeBoHA-MOHSW Family Medicine Specialty Training Program in Lesotho. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material - January 2009 |
Case descriptions of organizations that support the use of research evidence by John N Lavis, Ray Moynihan, Andrew D Oxman, Elizabeth J Paulsen
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Interviews with the directors of organizations that support the use of research evidence by John N Lavis, Andrew D Oxman, Ray Moynihan, Elizabeth J
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Survey of organizations that support the use of research evidence by John N Lavis, Elizabeth J Paulsen, Andrew D Oxman, Ray Moynihan
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Synthesis of findings from a multi-method study of organizations that support the use of research evidence by John N Lavis, Andrew D Oxman, Ray Moynihan, Elizabeth J Paulsen
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A scoping literature review of collaboration between primary care and public health by Ruth Martin-Misener, Ruta Valaitis
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The remuneration of general practitioners and specialists in 14 OECD Countries: What are the factors influencing variations across countries? by Rie Fujisawa and Gaetan Lafortune J
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| | Primafamed Kampala declaration - February 2009 | Primafamed organised a conference on Improving the Quality of Family Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa in Kampala, Uganda in November 2008.
In response to the challenge to develop Family Medicine for the benefit of the people of Africa, the participants of the conference agreed on the Primafamed Kampala Declaration. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Introducing new Network: TUFH members - January 2009 | Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in Canada is a pioneering Faculty of Medicine. For the whole of Northern Ontario, the School is a joint initiative between Lakehead University and Laurentian University, with main campuses in Thunder Bay and Sudbury, and multiple teaching and research sites distributed across Northern Ontario.
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine recently published the following article in Education for Health: The Northern Ontario School of Medicine: Responding to the Needs of the People and Communities of Northern Ontario. To view this article, click here.
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| | Education for Health has Published a New Online Issue: Volume 21, Issue 3 | We invite you to click here and view this issue. The articles are available to download for free.
More information on the contents of this issue can be read in the Co-Editors' Notes: click here | | Read further >> | | |
| | Picture Gallery Network: TUFH 2008 Bogota, Colombia Conference | Dear Colombia Conference Participants,
The Picture Gallery of the Network: TUFH 2008 Bogota, Colombia Conference is now available at: <https://www.the-networktufh.org/conferences/previousconferencedetail.asp
We hope that we will see you in Amman, Jordan for our next International Conference in October 2009. Our conference host is Center for Educational Development, University of Jordan. Conference theme is Achieving Quality in Health Care: Challenges for Education, Research and Service Delivery.
Detailed information will be available from early 2009 at http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you would like to receive more details.
We wish you a happy holiday season and all the best for 2009!
Yoka Cerfontaine and Pauline Vluggen
The Network: Towards Unity for Health | | Read further >> | | |
| | Members helping Members - December 2008 | Gautemala is home to some of the poorest living conditions in Central America. It has the 6th highest prevalence of malnourished children, a high maternal and infant mortality rate, and the low life expectancy of 67 years. Recognizing that the country needs to take immediate action to correct these disparities, the Vice President of Guatemala has created a private foundation called Guatemala SANA. SANA in Spnaish means “healthy”: S for Salud (health), A for Ambiente (environment), N for nutricion (nutrition) and A for Accesso Escolar (access to schooling).
SANA will transform the schools of the nation into locations of nutrition, health services, education, and healthcare education for all members of the community. These central locations will be known as “school community centers” and will bring the community together to create a health, educated lifestyle.
SANA has asked GHETS to help in the re-organization of healthcare and education in Guatemala. The goals of SANA are to improve access of primary healthcare, nutrition and understanding of nutrition, provide healthcare education for both children and parents, provide statistical assessment of the program, and to increase the enrollment of girls in local schools.
GHETS is now looking for organizations to provide educational materials in Spanish that can be used to facilitate the education of hand washing, clean water usage, women’s healthcare issues, pre-natal nutrition; nutrition for lactating mothers, post-natal care, children’s healthcare issues (including immunization information. We are also in need of Spanish speaking individuals that will spend 6 months to a year in Guatemala training locals that will maintain education at the newly implemented school community centers. We would especially be interested in Spanish speaking individuals that have already implemented health educational projects (various health topics) in developing nations.
Please contact Ashley Sohn, 15by2015 Program Coordinator at Ashley@egilman.com | | Read further >> | | |
| | Request from the Editor of the Network: TUFH Newsletter - December 2008 | - In the Network: TUFH Newsletter we have a recurring item with regard to the annual Network: TUFH Conference: partnerships/collaborations that had their roots in one of these Conferences. For example: in the June 2006 Newsletter we published a story about collaboration between the Universidade Católica de Mozambique and the Universidad de La Sabana from Colombia; they met at the 2003 Conference and since then have worked together in many ways.
Have you started a partnership/collaboration as a result of a Network: TUFH Conference? Please let us know, because it could make a very interesting article for our Newsletter.
- In several countries in Africa (especially in Kenya), clinical officers are healthcare providers. After three years of training, they receive a diploma in clinical medicine, surgery and community health. Clinical officers work either independently or with a ‘medical officer’ to provide healthcare services to largely rural populations.
We are in search for authors who can write about their experience with – or knowledge about – clinical officers. Please contact us in case you yourself would like to write an article, or if you know of others who could be potential authors.
- Through the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) discussion list, Ghanim Alsheikh (Regional Adviser, Human Resources Development, WHO, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office) asked an interesting question: dissemination of the wave of innovation mostly took place during the 1980s, but how many of the present medical schools in the EMR are adopting innovative programmes? To find out, Alsheikh called upon all to exchange opinions and experiences that could result in useful recommendations and action plans.
Please send us your opinions and experiences; we will publish it in a new column in the Newsletter.
Contributions can be sent to Marion Stijnen at m.stijnen@oifdg.unimaas.nl.
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| | Rectification news item December 2008 Alert - January 2009 | In the December 2008 Alert we informed you about a funding opportunity for research on the Social Determinants of Health from the Bupa Foundation in the UK. By misstake we indicated that Sarah Metcalf represents the BUPA Foundation and that you can contact her for more information and assistance. Pleae be informed that this information was not correct.
In case you have any questions about the funding opportunity please check the following website: http://www.procor.org/news/news_show.htm?doc_id=746555
or contact Bupa Foundation at bupafoundation@bupa.com | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material - December 2008 |
Redesigning Primary Care: "...In the United States, primary care is in crisis. The ranks of primary care physicians are thinning, with many burning out and trainees shunning primary care fields. The following articles examine the current state of primary care in the U.S. and discuss potential solutions in the areas of training, practice, compensation, and systemic change...."
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Models, Evidence, and Health Inequities: Three new articles from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Iconography and Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (and health inequity) by Tony Blakely
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Ladders, pyramids and champagne: The iconography of health inequities by N Krieger
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Global health equity: Evidence for action on the social determinants of health by M Marmot and S Friel
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| | Interesting Spanish reading material - November 2008 |
- Chile: Presentación del Informe: Subsanar las designualdades en una generacion
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- El estado de la salud sexual y reproductiva en América Latina y el Caribe: una visión global
Available online PDF>>
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| | Item for Bogota conference participants | Dear participants of the Network: TUFH Conference in Colombia,
In the Network: TUFH Newsletter we have a recurring item with regard to the annual Network: TUFH Conference: partnerships/collaborations that had their roots in one of these Conferences. For example: in the June 2006 Newsletter we published a story about collaboration between the Universidade Católica de Mozambique and the Universidad de La Sabana from Colombia; they met at the 2003 Conference and since then have worked together in many ways.
We are always on the look-out for stories as described above. Have you started a partnership/collaboration as a result of the Conference in Colombia (or earlier Network: TUFH Conferences)? Please let us know, because it could make a very interesting article for our Newsletter.
Looking forward to hearing from you, and with kind regards,
Marion Stijnen and Pauline Vluggen
Editors Network: TUFH Newsletter
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| | 2008 Colombia Conference | Dear Colombia Conference Participants,
Now that we have all returned home and the Network: TUFH 2008 Bogota, Colombia conference may be starting to fade from memory, we are writing to THANK YOU for your participation and for your deep commitment to adapting health services and health professions education to local needs. New relationships have been formed and we all left the conference with renewed passion for making a positive difference in our communities.
There are still some Colombia issues that we would like to share with you:
- Final conference evaluation
- Presentations and information received from key-note speakers and mini-workshop/didactic session facilitators
- Take home messages from Thematic Poster Sessions
For more information please visit the following website: http://www.the-networktufh.org/conferences/previousconferences.asp
As we have done in previous years we would like to make a conference picture gallery on our website. Therefore we would like to invite participants to send their 5 best conference pictures before November 30, 2008 to: secretariat@network.unimaas.nl.
In the months and years ahead, we hope we can all stay connected with each other - to share lessons learned, to seek advice and to build a movement for change. Toward that end, you have been added to the mailing list of The Network: TUFH and will receive periodic emails from us. Please continue to send us news of your accomplishments to share broadly throughout our network. If you do not wish to stay connected in this way, please let us know and we'll remove you from our list.
We also hope that you will join us in Amman, Jordan for our next International Conference in October 2009. Our conference host is Center for Educational Development, University of Jordan.
Detailed information will be available from early 2009 at http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you would like to receive more details.
Also on behalf of the Colombian co-hosts, thank you again and we wish you all the best,
Yoka Cerfontaine and Pauline Vluggen
The Network: Towards Unity for Health | | Read further >> | | |
| | Calls for Nominations - November 2008 |
- The Carso Health Institute Awards in health, nutrition and environment (in Spanish)
Call for nominations to the three categories of the 2009 carso awards in health, nutrition and environment
Convocatoria abierta del 9 de septiembre 2008 al 16 de enero 2009
Award amount: $100,000 American dollars
Final date of submission: January 16th, 2009
The CARSO AWARDS, an initiative of the Carso Health Institute, aim at promoting the development of human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthening the formation of leaders that can push forward the research and innovation agenda in the region within the health and nutrition fields.
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- BMJ Group Awards - BMJ Group publish BMJ (British Medical Journal) 2008
The inaugural BMJ Group Awards ceremony will take place on 2nd April 2009 and will recognise individuals, organisations and initiatives that can demonstrate outstanding and measurable contributions to health care.
The range of awards reflects the values of the BMJ Group including awards for corporate social responsibility, clinical research, healthcare communication, medical education, quality improvement, global leadership, and lifetime achievement.
Closing date for entries: 12 PM, Fiday 19th Dcember 2008
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| | Bogotá Declaration | | At the 2008 Conference in Bogotá, Colombia representatives of The Network: TUFH and participants endorsed the fact that the World Health Report 2008 will focus on primary health care and formed a declaration on this important topic. The declaration is available in English, Spanish and French. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material related to the WHO 2008 report | | | Read further >> | | |
| | WHO 2008 Report | The World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach. There are striking inequities within and between countries in health outcomes, in access to care, and in what people have to pay for care, says the World Health Report 2008 launched October 14, 2008.
To steer health systems towards better performance and greater equity, the report calls for a revival of the primary health care approach launched 30 years ago.
“….The report critically assesses the way that health care is organized, financed, and delivered in rich and poor countries around the world and documents a number of failures and shortcomings that have left the health status of different populations, both within and between countries, dangerously out of balance….”
For press release see: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr38/en/index.html
A summary of the report is available in 6 different languages:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- English
- French
- Russian
- Spanish
To download the full report in English click here. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material - November 2008 | - Series: Alma-Ata: rebirth and revision. Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews.
Simon Lewin, John N Lavis, Andrew D Oxman, Gabriel Bastías, Mickey Chopra, Agustín Ciapponi, Signe Flottorp, Sebastian García Martí, Tomas Pantoja, Gabriel Rada, Nathan Souza, Shaun Treweek, Charles S Wiysonge, Andy Haines; The Lancet.- Vol 372 September 13, 2008
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- A model and typology of collaboration between professionals in healthcare organizations
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- Tribute on the journal’s 20th anniversary of education for health
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- Brief communication - special section: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers" building the evidence base: Networking innovative socially accountable medical education programs
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- Making a Difference: An interview with Camilo Osorio Barker: Enhancing medical education in Colombia
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- Translational public health: Rehearsing the evidence until the task is done
Gabriel M. Leung and Selena Gray; J public health 2008 30: 217-218; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdn066
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- Global health watch 2: October 2008Read further>>
- Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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- Health research evaluation frameworks: An international comparison
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- Performance-based contracting for health services in developing countries
2008 the international bank for reconstruction and development / the world bank
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- Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking
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| | Education for Health: Volume 21, Issue 2 (September 2008) now available | The Network: TUFH journal Education for Health is celebrating its 20th anniversary !
The anniversary issue Volume 21, Issue 2 is now available online.
You can read about the beginnings of Education for Health in a tribute written by Henk Schmidt and Pauline Vluggen.
In their Editorial, Co-Editors Michael Glasser and Donald Pathman are reflecting on the past goals, current status, and future directions of the journal.
This new issue also contains a special section called: “Towards a Scaling-Up of Training and Education for Health Workers.”
We invite you to click here and view this issue. The articles are available to download for free.
More information on the complete contents of this issue can be read in the Co-Editors' Notes: click here | | Read further >> | | |
| | Launch of WONCA Academic Membership - October 2008 | Academic Departments and Training Programs of General Practice/Family Medicine which are actively involved in teaching and research and which support the Wonca's mission and desire affiliation may apply for Wonca Academic Membership.
Request: Wonca seeks your help by putting the Wonca Secretariat in touch with the Academic Departments/ Training Programs of Family Medicine/ General Practice / Primary Care in your country that may be interested in joining Wonca as an Academic Member.
Please send the contact details to the Wonca Secretariat at admin@wonca.com.sg | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material - October 2008 | - Quality in and Equality of Access to Healthcare Services; European Commission - Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, 2008
Available online as pdf
- Coverage of Cervical Cancer Screening in 57 Countries: Low Average Levels and Large Inequalities; PLoS Med June 2008 - 5(6): e132
Available online
- The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09; Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC - UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), July 2008
Available online as pdf
- Learning from our neighbours - Cross-national inspiration for Dutch public health policies: smoking, alcohol, overweight, depression, health inequalities, youth, screening; National Institute for Public Health and The Environment - The Netherlands, 2008
Available online as pdf
- Health Workforce and International Migration: Can New Zealand Compete?; OECD Health Working Paper No. 33; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, 2008
Available online as pdf
- World Population Approaches 7 Billion; U.S. Census Bureau, June 2008
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- Where are the patients in decision-making about their own care?; WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2008
Available online as pdf
- Global Atlas of the Health Workforce; The WHO Department of Human Resources for Health 2008
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Miscellaneous new publications received by the Network: TUFH secretariat.
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| | Boletin Al Timpano - June 2008 | | Facultad de Medicina, Universidad La Sabana has fully dedicated their School´s newsletter to this years Network: TUFH Conference that will take place in Bogota, Colombia from September 27 to October 2. The newsletter is only available in Spanish. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Members helping Members - June 2008 |
Occasionally the Network: TUFH Alert is being used for members (or Network: TUFH relations) who ask for help from the Network: TUFH membership. Here a request from Gyorgy Vereb from Hungary. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Interesting reading material - June 2008 | - Community-Academic Partnerships: A "Community-First" Model to Teach Public Health
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- Online Educational Tools to Improve the Knowledge of Primary Care Professionals in Infectious Diseases
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- Original Research Paper: Health-Related Behaviors of Sudanese Adolescents
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- The Concept of Prevention: A Good Idea Gone Astray? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - July 2008;62:580-583; doi:10.1136/jech.2007.071027
Website: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/62/7/580
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| | Interesting reading material - May 2008 | - Online Educational Tools to Improve the Knowledge of Primary Care Professionals in Infectious Diseases
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- Validation of a Turkish Translation of the Communication Skills Attitude Scale with Turkish Medical Students
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- World Health Day and Education for Health
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- The Global Epidemic of Obesity: An Overview
Benjamin Caballero - Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Epidemiologic Reviews 2007 29(1):1-5; doi:10.1093/epirev/mxm012
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| | Noguchi Award for Service to Global Public Health - May 2008 | Too often the sacrifices of people working in global public health go unrecognized, but not in this case. In a press release the WHO welcomes the announcement that the Government of Japan is awarding the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for service to global public health.
The two recipients of the prize are Brain Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and distinguished innovator in malaria research; and Miriam K. Were, an AIDS specialist performing ground-breaking community-based work in East Africa. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Education for Health: Volume 21, Issue 1 (April 2008) available | We invite you to click here and view this issue. The articles are available to download for free.
More information on the contents of this issue can be read in the Co-Editors' Notes: click here | | Read further >> | | |
| | Call for Training Modules - April 2008 | The interactive website of The Network: TUFH has a special section for Training modules/Curricula in which your institution/organisation has the chance to share successful learning packages with other colleagues in the world.
Since 2006 the Women and Health Learning package can be downloaded from the website and has been a big success. In 2 years time, over 260 institutions and individuals in 60 countries have downloaded the package from the website, click here
We invite you to send training modules on relevant topics to secretariat@network.unimaas.nl for inclusion in the website. Your input is much appreciated and the most innovating contribution will be awarded with an article in our Newsletter. | | Read further >> | | |
| | 2008 Network: Towards Unity for Health Conference - May 2008 | We invite you to attend the Network: Towards Unity for Health (The Network: TUFH) 2008 conference in Bogotá, Colombia from September 27 to October 2. Followed by 2 post-conference excursions to Health Center Agua de Dios (October 3) and to Valledupar – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (October 3 to 5).
We are convinced that the 2008 conference will be a unique opportunity for international participants to gather, to get acquainted with the Network: TUFH as a global organisation in general and the Colombian health care system, the beauty of Colombia and the Colombian people in particular.
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| | International Conference: The Future of Primary Healthcare in Europe - April 2008 | | Network: TUFH Members receive a reduction on the registration fee for this International Conference that will be organised in Southampton, United Kingdom from September 15 - 17, 2008. For more information and a special registration form please visit the conference website. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Funding opportunities - May 2008 | Peers for Progress
Evaluation Grants are available to document the contributions of peer support interventions for those with diabetes. University-based researchers, health systems, and similar organizations are invited to apply. Eligibility criteria include experience in (a) diabetes management and/or use of peer-based interventions in health promotion and chronic disease anagement and (b) research or program evaluation.
Application schedule
- Brief preliminary project: descriptions are due: July 1, 2008.
- Applications are due September 1, 2008
- Funding of successful applications commences: January 1, 2009. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Call for abstracts and proposals in Spanish - April 2008 | The Network: TUFH 2008 Conference – Adapting Health Services and Health Professions Education to Local Needs: Partnerships, Priorities and Passions.
Although the language of the Conference is English, the organisers would like to offer a Spanish track in the programme and therefore encourages Spanish speaking participants to submit an abstract or mini-workshop or didactic session proposal in Spanish.
Deadline for abstract submission for thematic poster sessions and proposals for mini-workshops and/or didactics is June 1, 2008. You can send your abstract and/or mini-workshop / didactic proposal submission form to secretariat@network.unimaas.nl | | Read further >> | | |
| | Resumenes y propuesta en Español - April 2008 | The Network: TUFH 2008 Conferencia – Adapting Health Services and Health Professions Education to Local Needs: Partnerships, Priorities and Passions
Aunque el lenguaje oficial de la conferencia es el ingles, los organizadores desean ofrecer un programa paralelo en español. Por esta razón animan a los participantes de habla hispana a participar enviando resumenes, propuestas para mini talleres o sesiones didacticas.
La fecha limite de envío de resumenes y propuestas es el Primero de Junio de 2008. Puede enviar su resumen o propuesta a secretariat@network.unimaas.nl
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| | Interesting reading material - April 2008 | - Integrating public health and medicine: First steps in a new curriculum
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- Systematic reviews of health effects of social interventions: 2. Best available evidence: How low should you go?
David Ogilvie, Matt Egan, Val Hamilton and Mark Petticrew
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- April issue of the WHO Bulletin
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- Capacity building in medical education and health outcomes in developing countries: The missing link
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| | Teaching for Learning: Learning for Health - March 2008 | | A Quick Reference Guide for Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Learning Experiences. Available in English and Farsi. | | Read further >> | | |
| | The Prevention Education Resource Center - March 2008 | | The Prevention Education Resource Center (PERC) is a web-based repository of educational materials related to clinical prevention and population health. PERC is supported by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). The site promotes collaboration across health care disciplines, professions, and institutions by facilitating the exchange of teaching resources and connecting educators. The PERC was launched in October 2006 by APTR, convener of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force. The development and operation of PERC are funded by a grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation of New York. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Members helping Members - March 2008 |
Occasionally the Network: TUFH Alert is being used for members (or Network: TUFH relations) who ask for help from the Network: TUFH membership. Here a request from Dr. Marzieh Moattari from Iran. | | Read further >> | | |
| | Tamas Fülöp Award - February 2008 | | The TFA honours a person/organisation/institution/Group for outstanding contributions to The Network: TUFH. During the General Meeting in Kampala, Uganda in September 2007 the 2nd TFA was presented to a very honoured Dr. Khalifa Elmusharaf from Sudan. | | Read further >> | | |
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