Just imagine politicians working for health equity

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Just imagine: new paradigms for medical education.

For all its traditional successes, the current model of medical education in the United States and Canada is being challenged on issues of quality, throughput, and cost, a process that has exposed numerous shortcomings in its efforts to meet the needs of the nations' health care systems. A radical change in direction is required because the current path will not lead to a solution.The 2010 publ...

Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods

Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

Wanted: politicians to champion health (not obesity).

Because of the complex aetiology of modern obesity patterns, isolated therapeutic or public health measures will not solve the obesity problem. Consumers must be made aware of the ways in which the food industry influences their food purchases. Government needs to prioritise health ahead of industrial productivity and increased consumption. An obesity intervention wish list is presented as a su...

Promoting child health equity: family-centered care coordination is just one piece of the puzzle.

In their report in this month’s issue of Pediatrics, Toomey et al analyzed data from the National Survey of Children’s Health related to parental rating of their children’s receipt of care coordination. The authors found that 41% of all parents, and 72% of parents of children with special health care needs, reported that their child needed some type of care coordination. However, almost one-thi...