Poverty Analysis - More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions

from the World Bank's PovertyNet:

Poverty Analysis - More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions

Rwanda aims to become Africa's high-tech hub | csmonitor.com

Rwanda aims to become Africa's high-tech hub | csmonitor.com: "The African country aims to turn itself into the 'Singapore of Africa.'"

(via My Heart's in Accra)

EVENT - Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Obstetric Care

The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Fall 2007
Seminar Series

Presents:

Helen dePinho, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Clinical and Population Family Health
Discussing:


"Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Obstetric Care: The Power and
Potential of Mid-Level Providers and Non-Physician Surgeons"


November 12, 2007

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

60 Haven Avenue, B2 Conference Room



Drinks will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

EVENT - Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Obstetric Care

The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Fall 2007
Seminar Series

Presents:

Helen dePinho, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Clinical and Population Family Health
Discussing:


"Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Obstetric Care: The Power and
Potential of Mid-Level Providers and Non-Physician Surgeons"


November 12, 2007

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

60 Haven Avenue, B2 Conference Room



Drinks will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

Growth Chart controversies

This website has some great charts and discusses the current WHO efforts to redesign charts for normal breastfed infant growth patterns:

kellymom.com :: Average Growth Patterns of Breastfed Babies: "...Healthy breastfed infants tend to grow more rapidly than formula-fed infants in the first 2-3 months of life and less rapidly from 3 to 12 months. All growth charts available at this time include data from infants who were not exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months (includes formula-fed infants and those starting solids before the recommended 6 months). Because many doctors are not aware of this, they see the baby dropping in percentiles on the growth chart and often come to the faulty conclusion that the baby is not growing adequately. At this point they often recommend that the mother (unnecessarily) supplement with formula or solids, and sometimes recommend that they stop breastfeeding altogether [...]"

Welcome to Global Voices

In preparation for Tuesday's class on the media, I'd like you to take some time to explore the Global Voices website. Additionally, please get to know the new media buzz wordslike Web 2.0 or Wikimedia. Believe me: you'll need these resources in your public health careers.

Global Voices Online - Health

Bloggers find ways to speak out in Pakistan

My heart's in Accra - Bloggers find ways to speak out in Pakistan: "...In the meantime, Pakistani bloggers are trying to figure out how to approach a media environment where independent voices are being routinely silenced. Independent TV stations have been taken off the air, and there have been reports of mobile phones and internet access being blocked. (The latest news, as reported on Dr. Awab Alvi’s Teeth Maestro blog, is phone service was just restored in Islamabad.) Yet there are numerous voices coming from the Pakistani blogosphere, some from bloggers outside the country, some from inside. Awab Alvi, who is one of the leaders of the anti-censorship campaign, Don’t Block the Blog, has warned fellow bloggers to be very careful and to consider that blogging in their own names may carry the risk of arrest - he’s turned over control of his blog to Ange Embuldeniya, who is posting regular reports on Alvi’s blog. In some ways, this technique is similar to how information got out of Burma during the monks’ protests and the following crackdown - information was passed to sympathetic bloggers outside the country who posted it online [...]"

Healthy City Project | Advancement Project Los Angeles

Healthy City Project | Advancement Project Los Angeles: "The Healthy City Project is an interactive on-line website that provides free access to the most comprehensive database of health and human services in Los Angeles County. With its cutting-edge GIS mapping technology and easy to use database search features, Healthy City is an all-in-one research tool for resource referrals, policy advocacy, and resource planning. Healthy City plays an important role in addressing the resource information gap and increasing the awareness of available health and social services throughout the County."

feedback for 10/30

• Excellent! Aldermans were appropriate and terrific.
• There was a lot of medical stuff in the beginning that are confusing and without background – I was lost. I felt more could have been said on mental health.
• Weird start w/ no students but nice to have conversation with Aldermans.
• Great!
• Speaker #1: good delivery. Over use of statistics. Very broad topic, felt it did not adequately cover definitions. Wish there had been more focus on current issues, solutions & challenges. Speaker #2 did a good job of outlining the challenges. Would have been good to see a more solid connection to MCH.
• Didn’t see articles posted on blog until at least yesterday. Articles should be posted sooner – afternoon (although comment was made during the presentation).
• Good discussion by class.
• Speaker #1: I enjoyed her opinion of the mental health classification, especially her usage of the term “main health”. Excellent delivery.
• Speaker #2: I really enjoyed hearing about your personal experience with issue. Very well done!
• Good coverage that promoted excellent discussion concerned with a very broad set of topics. The Alderman’s added an important dimension to the discussion.
• Speaker #1: Excellent, effective, very broad presentation covering many aspects of the problem – covered much in the short period from medical/psychiatric/public health perspective. Interestingly presented. Good delivery of huge subject areas.
• Speaker #2: Did not led all of presentation but introduction and beginning of presentation – excellent and comprehensive.
• Nice job – both speakers. For both – when using graphs or charts, take a little more time to explain the basics – what they’re showing.

Harvard Public Health Review Winter 2007

Harvard Public Health Review Winter 2007: "A pinch of salt, a fistful of sugar, a jug of clean water. The simple elixir known as oral rehydration solution (ORS)--recently ranked No. 2 in a British Medical Journal survey of greatest health advances of the last 150 years--has saved tens of millions of people from death by infectious diarrheal diseases since the early 1970s. At the cost of a few cents, almost anyone alert enough to swallow can survive cholera, which can kill a man in four hours by draining him dry [...]"

Gene 'links breastfeeding to IQ'

A single gene influences whether breastfeeding improves a child's intelligence, say London researchers.