Book Club this Friday in
Hobart
Anyone who is reading Gavin Mooney’s last book, The Health
of Nations, (as well as anyone interested) is welcome to come along to a one
hour discussion this Friday 14 June - please contact me for details.
Items of interest
Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Communities
Please go to http://www.mrchobart.org.au/announcements/tasmania-our-place-refugee-week-photographic-exhibtion-opening-friday-14-june-6pm-on-view-to-27-june
for an invitation to the launch of the Refugee Week
exhibition 2013 at the Moonah Arts Centre on Friday 14 June at 6.00pm.
Drug Action Week - 16-22 June 2013 - The Drug Education Network (DEN) would
like to invite you to attend the Launch of Drug
Action Week 2013 - 7:30
am – 9:00 am - Monday 17th June 2013 - Churchill Room,
Salamanca Inn, 10 Gladstone Street Hobart - Please bring along some information
to promote your service to attendees. Please RSVP to admin@den.org.au or 1300 369 319 asap! .
A collaborative newsletter
between the Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drugs Council and the Mental Health
Council of Tasmania: http://www.redaction.com.au/2013_06_04_Jointforces_4thed.pdf
Applications now open for the
Heart Foundation Australian Indigenous Scholarship
Applications Close: Friday 28 June 2013 (5pm AEST).
We are contacting you to ask you to help spread the word about the $40,000 pro
rata per annum scholarship the Heart Foundation is offering. Our funding will
support an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Island person to study for a
research degree (PhD or Masters) in any area of research that is relevant to
cardiovascular health (including biomedical, clinical, public health and health
services research). The Heart Foundation is a co-signatory to the national
Close the Gap campaign and we are committed to improving the life expectancy
and quality of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As
part of our plan, we are increasing our commitment to supporting and using
research to benefit Indigenous Australians by providing the Australian
Indigenous Scholarship. We would like to ensure as many people as possible
have the opportunity to apply for the scholarship so that we can continue to
strategically drive cardiovascular research and facilitate high quality
research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, management and prevention of
cardiovascular disease that effects all Australians. The generous award provides
a stipend of $40,000 pro rata per annum for up to 2 years for Masters and up to
3 years for PhD. Part time scholarships for longer periods may be considered.
Further information is available on the Heart Foundation website about the Australian
Indigenous Scholarship. Please share this opportunity with anyone who you
feel might like to apply. If you are able to assist us by including the
information in any publications or websites, please contact Ernie Kocsis on 03
9321 1581.
How integrated are homelessness, mental
health and drug and alcohol services in Australia? Final report:
Australian Housing and
Urban Research Institute (AHURI); 13 May 2013. This is the final report of a
project that focused on the integration of mental health and drug and alcohol
services for homeless people in two states and documented the mechanisms and
effectiveness of such linkages.
Why Finnish babies sleep in
cardboard boxes – a great article!
State of the World’s Children 2013 Children
with Disabilities
…..GIVEN SAME OPPORTUNITIES AS OTHERS, CHILDREN WITH
DISABILITIES CAN BE AGENTS OF CHANGE -- UN REPORT
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, May
30 2013 , Website: http://uni.cf/18yEt7n,
PDF file [150p.] at: http://uni.cf/15eBTzG
Children with disabilities have the same rights as all
children but are some of the most invisible and marginalized people in the
world according to a United Nations report released today, which cites
recommendations on how to actively include children with disabilities in civic,
social and cultural affairs so that both they and their communities benefit.
Alcohol
Policy in Canada
Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The CAMH Alcohol Policy Framework (http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/about_camh/influencing_public_policy/Documents/4854-AlcoholPolicyFramework.pdf)
reviews the evidence around alcohol-related harm, discusses best practices for
the prevention of alcohol problems, and outlines principles for an Ontario
approach to alcohol policy in which the sale and consumption of alcohol are
regulated with public health and safety as primary concerns. This document may
prove useful to organizations and individuals engaged in public health, policy,
and/or advocacy work in the area of alcohol.
The
State of Food and Agriculture 2013 (SOFA)
Food Systems for Better Nutrition: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3300e/i3300e00.htm
Food Systems for Better Nutrition: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3300e/i3300e00.htm
Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations – FAO
FAO
urges end of malnutrition as priority --------Social and economic costs of
global malnutrition unacceptable………….Twenty six percent of all children under
five are stunted
Maternal
and Child Nutrition - The Lancet Series 2013, The Lancet, published
June 6, 2013
Available at http://www.thelancet.com/series/maternal-and-child-nutrition?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia. If you can’t access these articles and want something in particular please let me (Miriam) know and I will get it for you
"Nutrition is crucial to both individual and national development. The evidence in this Series furthers the evidence base that good nutrition is a fundamental driver of a wide range of developmental goals. The post-2015 sustainable development agenda must put addressing all forms of malnutrition at the top of its goals".
Available at http://www.thelancet.com/series/maternal-and-child-nutrition?elsca1=TW&elsca2=socialmedia. If you can’t access these articles and want something in particular please let me (Miriam) know and I will get it for you
"Nutrition is crucial to both individual and national development. The evidence in this Series furthers the evidence base that good nutrition is a fundamental driver of a wide range of developmental goals. The post-2015 sustainable development agenda must put addressing all forms of malnutrition at the top of its goals".
Global nutrition policy review
What does it take to scale up nutrition action?, World Health
Organization 2013, Available online at:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/84408/1/9789241505529_eng.pdf
“Malnutrition is found worldwide and is linked, either directly or indirectly, to major causes of death and disability. More than one third of all child deaths are attributable to undernutrition. Many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa, have not achieved significant reductions in underweight, stunting or vitamin and mineral malnutrition. Wasting is still widespread, and essential infant and young child feeding practices are not improving in those low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, the rates of overweight and obesity are rising.”
European Environment Agency, 2013, European Union, 2013, Available online PDF [106p.] at: http://bit.ly/10Tytys
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/84408/1/9789241505529_eng.pdf
“Malnutrition is found worldwide and is linked, either directly or indirectly, to major causes of death and disability. More than one third of all child deaths are attributable to undernutrition. Many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa, have not achieved significant reductions in underweight, stunting or vitamin and mineral malnutrition. Wasting is still widespread, and essential infant and young child feeding practices are not improving in those low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, the rates of overweight and obesity are rising.”
European Environment Agency, 2013, European Union, 2013, Available online PDF [106p.] at: http://bit.ly/10Tytys
“……. This report outlines a number
of environmental issues with a direct influence on people's health and
well-being and is a follow-up and update to the 2005 EEA/JRC report.
As highlighted in EEA's The
European Environment — state and outlook 2010 the policy focus is increasingly
shifting from single environmental pollution issues towards systemic challenges
regarding the maintenance of ecosystem resilience and the delivery of ecosystem
services to human society. Climate change is a good example with its combined
impacts on food and water security, heat waves, flooding risks and potential
spread of diseases“……The current, predominantly
hazard-focused and compartmentalised approach to environment and health is
insufficient to address interconnected and interdependent challenges, such as
climate change, depletion of resources, ecosystem degradation, the obesity
epidemic, and persistent social inequality. The policy focus therefore needs to
be widened to social and other policy domains, such as consumption, resource
efficiency, natural capital, ecosystem services and spatial planning. This
implies a greater need for a multidisciplinary and multi‑stakeholder dialogue
to take account of values and attitudes.
Climate mitigation is an area where complex
systemic interactions, feedbacks and trade-offs are particularly obvious. A
shift towards renewable (bio-based) energy may have consequences for food
security and human well-being, as energy cropping increasingly competes with
food production. Where it replaces extensive farming systems, a negative
side-effect on biodiversity and landscape amenity values can also be expected,
affecting, for example, recreation opportunities.
World
of Work Report 2013: Repairing the economic and social fabric
The study analyses the global employment
situation five years after the start of the global financial crisis. It
looks at labour market performance and projections both at the global and
regional levels. Full report PDF at: http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/world-of-work/2013/WCMS_214476/lang--en/index.htm
Main
Findings:
·
Five
years after the global financial crisis, the global employment situation
remains uneven, with emerging and developing economies recovering much faster
than the majority of advanced economies. Employment rates (the proportion of
people of working age who have a job) exceed pre-crisis levels in 30 per cent
of the countries analysed. In 37 per cent of the countries, employment rates
have increased in recent years, but not enough to return to the pre-crisis
situation, while in the remaining 33 per cent of countries, employment rates
have continued to decline. Based on current trends, employment rates across
emerging and developing economies will return to pre-crisis levels in 2015;
while employment rates in advanced economies will only return to the precrisis
situation after 2017.
·
At
the global level, the number of unemployed people will continue to increase
unless policies change course. Global unemployment is expected to approach 208
million in 2015, compared with slightly over 200 million at the time of
publication.
·
Key
labour market weaknesses that preceded the crisis have remained acute or
worsened, even in high-growth economies. For example, over the past 5 years,
the incidence of long-term unemployment (the share of unemployed persons out of
work for 12 months or more) has increased in 60 per cent of the advanced and
developing economies for which data exist.
·
In
addition, many workers have become discouraged and are no longer actively
looking for a job. Labour force participation rates decreased between 2007 and
2012 in more than half of the countries analysed.
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