Social Accountability - College of Medicine @ University of Saskatchewan

Congratulations to the recipients of the Graduate and Faculty Global Health Bursaries!

Faculty:
Hyun Lim (Community Health & Epidemiology) for his collaborate work with Jilin University School of Public Health in China.
José Téllez-Zenteno (Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Royal University Hospital/Assistant Professor of Medicine) for his work with High-Specialty Hospital in Oaxaca Mexico.
Vivian Ramsden (Department of Family Medicine) for her collaborative work the Omayal Achi Health Centre in Chennai, India.
Carl D’Arcy (Department of Psychiatry/College of Medicine and School of Public Health) for his collaborative work with Jilin University School of Public Health in China.

Graduate Students:
Ryan Wright, a graduate student in the College of Kinesiology.
Vincent Terstappen, a Masters of Science candidate in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology.

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Interested in health care? Interested in Co-operatives? Want to learn more about how the two work together? The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan and the Community Health Co-operative Federation is hosting representatives of the International Health Co-operative Organization for a symposium on the role of co-operatives in health care delivery. For those specifically interested in International health co-operatives a number of international co-op organizations will be presenting, including: Unimed Co-operative from Brazil, Medicoop from Sweden, Espiru Foundation of Spain and the Japanese Health Co-operative Association.

For more information and to register check out the poster: Download file

image by John Collier Jr. an American photographer, this is a photo of a nurse working in 1943 in New Mexico at a clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health. association.

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To suppport, encourage and foster continued teaching, research and learning in global health the Internationalization Committe of the College of Medicine has made funds available to support College of Medicine faculty, grad students and students.

For more information on the bursaries check out these links:
Faculty, Graduate Students, Students
photo by Gaetlan Lee

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The World Health Organization released their 256 page report, Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Healthtoday, the product of a 3 year investigation by various policy makers.
The report calls for major change through action to close the gap between rich and poor within a generation. The report makes three overall reccommendations to close this gap:

1) Improve daily living conditions, including the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
2) Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions – globally, nationally and locally.
3) Measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action.

Click here to read the full report or Click here to read the executive summary.

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