Participants

Agenda

Final Report

Research Coordination Program

The objective of this workshop is to formulate recommendations for the further development of PAHO’s Virtual Health Library (VHL) project and the creation of a collaborative review group on health equity, thereby encouraging intersectoral alliances that will promote the development of evidence-based policies for health equity.

Presentations:

• Health Equity: The Pan American Health Organization View
  Juan Antonio Casas, Director, Division of Health and Human Development, 
  Pan American Health Organization  [Spanish PPT]
   
• Experiences in using Research Results for Decision-Making for Health Equity 
  Julio Frenk, Secretario de Salud de México  [Spanish PDF file]
    
• The Acheson Report: The U.K. Experience - Sir Donald Acheson
   
• Macrodeterminants of Health Equity, Norman Daniels (moderator)
  - Ichiro Kawachi [English PDF file]
  - George Kaplan English PPT
   
• Translating Research Evidence into Policy, Mario Rovere (moderator)
  - Sally MacIntyre [English PPT] 
  - Mario Bronfman [Spanish PDF file]
   
• Socio-economic determinants of inequities in health status, access and utilization of health care services: using secondary data to inform policy making
  Norberto Dachs [English PPT]
   
• Health Sector Reform in the Americas: Improving the Research to Policy Interface
  Roberto Bazzani, IDRC, English PPT
   
• Policy implications of selected studies on health equity in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Alberto Pellegrini Filho [Spanish PPT]
   
• The Use of ICT for Health Equity in the Americas - DECIDES
  Ulysses Panisset  [Spanish PPT]
   
• How can information and communication technology (ICT) be used to promote the development of evidence-based policy for health equity?
  
  Existing frameworks presented by:
  
  - Virtual Health Library, Abel Packer, [English PPT]
  - TBA (Cochrane), Gladys Faba,  [English PPT]
  - Campbell Collaboration Centers,Peter Tugwell [English PPT]
  - Observatory in Health Equity, Fernando Lavadenz  [Spanish PPT]
  - Development of Equity - Virtual Health Library, Armando de Negri 
  - Journalists Document - [Spanish PDF] 
  - Proposal: News Portal, Ma Lourdes Pallais  [Spanish-Word]
  - Knowledge and Information Sharing for Health Equity, Melanie Zipperer [English PDF]
  
  
• Conceptual Framework - approaches to develop Equity VHL- Virtual Health Library 
  Special session report - Equity VHL Executive Secretary: [English- PDF]