SMA - in print: reports
UN & WHO reports | US Gov't. reports | other reports
UN & WHO reports
State of World Population 2004
World Health Report 2005 -- and the World Health Report Archives
World Report on Violence and Health -- 3 October, 2002
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002: When People Must Live with Hunger and Fear Starvation -- the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 15 October 2002
Human Development Report 2004, United Nations Development Programme
US gov't reports
Health,
United States, 2004 -- With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
An annual report on national trends in health statistics, this year's report
includes a highlights section, chartbook, and 151 trend tables.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Reports
Qualitative Methods in Health Research (pdf) -- this booklet is intended to give useful tips on writing a fundable qualitative research proposal to any of the institutes of the NIH. Additionally, the booklet can be sited as a source in supporting the value or nature of particular qualitative methods.
other reports
Global Health Watch 2005-2006 Report
Global Health Watch 2005-2006 is a collaboration of public health experts, non-governmental organizations, community groups, health workers and academics. It presents a hard-hitting assessment of inequalities in health and health care – and is aimed at challenging the major institutions, such as the World Health Organization, that influence health.
The
health and environmental costs of war on Iraq, Medact
(Nov. 11, 2003)
The report assesses the impact of the war on the determinants of health,
including limited access to clean water and sanitation; poverty and household
food security; environmental degradation; disruption of social systems and
public services, including health services; and social breakdown. There
has been deterioration in all these determinants. The report analyses the
postwar occupation and reconstruction of Iraq from a health perspective.
While acknowledging efforts to provide emergency health relief and restore
battered health services, it notes that long-term health and wellbeing will
depend on restoration of security, revitalisation of the economy, and reconstruction
of all services that impact on health as well as regeneration of health
services.
Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China
(html
| pdf)
Widespread discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the spread
of the epidemic in China. This 94-page report is based on more than 30 interviews
with people with HIV/AIDS, police officers, drug users, and AIDS outreach
workers in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yunnan province. Many people living with
HIV/AIDS have no access to health care because hospitals refuse to treat
them. Human Rights Watch found that at one hospital, the door to the AIDS
clinic was actually padlocked. National laws discriminate against people
with HIV/AIDS, and some local laws ban them from using swimming pools or
working in food service. The police send drug users to detoxification centers,
where they are forced to labor without pay to make trinkets for tourists.
Instead of receiving help for their problem, they are driven underground,
making it harder for the government to combat the AIDS virus. (September
3, 2003)
A
Needs, Gaps and Opportunities Assessment for Research: Housing as a Socio-Economic
Determinant of Health (pdf)
This report was prepared for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
in response to a request for proposals that would assist the Institute of
Population and Public Health (IPPH) of the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR) to address their strategic priority to enhance research
on the influence of various ‘contexts’ on the health of Canadians,
especially those characteristics that are potentially alterable by improved
design and/or public/private/voluntary sector policies and programs.
Dying
For Trade: Why Globalization Can Be Bad for Our Health (pdf)
Ronald Labonte, PhD, The CSJ Foundation for Research and Education, September
2003
This paper examines the impact of trade agreements on our health and health
care system, and what governments can do to ensure that health and human
development are not sacrificed at the altar of ‘free trade.’
It begins with a discussion of how globalization affects our global health
through changes in economic growth, poverty, inequality and the sustainability
of our environment. Globalization’s harshest impacts have yet to be
fully experienced by Canadians. But for the poor living in Africa, the former
Soviet republics, and much of Asia and Latin America, the adverse impacts
of globalization are lived daily. As Toronto’s recent scare with SARS
teaches us, our own health is increasingly threatened by ‘Diseases
without borders’. In this globalized world, we are posed with the
challenge of protecting not just the health of all Canadians, but the health
of everyone on the planet.
Report on the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Monica Green, Arizona State University (Draft, June 1, 2003)
The Consequences of Medical Debt: Evidence from Three Communities (pdf) -- Published in March 2003 by The Access Project, the report demonstrates, through information collected directly from individuals with medical debt, the barriers to future health care caused by the debt that results from accessing needed care in the past. It also describes the many often ruinous financial effects that may befall individuals and families with medical debt.
South African Health Review, The Health Systems Trust
Friends Strongly Influence Contraceptive Use in Ghana. Population Briefs Volume 8, Number 2, September, 2002, The Population Council.
Research
report: Measuring social capital within health surveys: key issues.
Health Policy and Planning; 17(1): 106-111.
Trudy Harpham, Emma Grant, South Bank University, London, UK and Elizabeth
Thomas, Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa
Health
& Human Development in the New Global Economy: The Contributions and
Perspectives of Civil Society in the Americas (pdf) (PAHO)
This document addresses a wide range of issues affecting health in the global
economy, including the types of economic organization and potential dangers
we face at the close of this century. It centers on experiences, opportunities,
and risks in the Americas, on health in human development, and on international
and regional integration processes in the new global economy. Some articles
analyze the impact of economic reform policies on health in general, and
some monographs are written from the perspective of civil society groups
in particular countries.
updated August 24, 2005