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August 07, 2018

12th Brazilian Congress of Public Health

The staff from International Center for Equity in Health at UFPel has presented several papers in the 12th Brazilian Congress of Public Health, which took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, between July 26-28th of 2018. The papers were distributed between the differente theme axis at the event, although all of the papers highlit questions related to equity in health. It is possible to access the event proceedings at http://www.saudecoletiva.org.br/index.php  

July 18, 2018

Expert group workshop on women's empowerment in the LAC region

The inclusion of gender equality and the empowerment of gender equality and all women and girls as an explicit goal (Goal 5) within the Sustainable Development Goals, reflects the fact that, over the past 20 years, progress has been achieved but more slowly than desirable and at an uneven pace, with large differences between and within countries, especially in different wealth groups.1 To overcome the lack of comparable individual-level measures, the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment Ind

July 18, 2018

2nd Countdown to 2030 capacity building workshop in Kenya

From 9 to 13 of July, in Naivasha, Kenya, the second Countdown to 2030 workshop for the Eastern and Southern African region was held by the African Population and Health Research Center in collaboration with the World Health Organization and UNICEF. The analytical workshop was entitled “Leaving no woman and no chld behind: levels and trends in inequalities for RMNCH by wealth, urban-rural residence, and administrative area” aimed to develop capacity building and comprehensive country

June 08, 2018

ICEH researcher participates in a workshop about inequalities on maternal and neonatal health in Guatemala

Fernando C. Wehrmeister, researcher from the International Centre for Equity in Health (ICEH) from UFPel, participated in the first edition of the workshop “Mejorando la Salud Materna y Neonatal: Un taller de liderazgo para América Latina y el Caribe”, between May 27 and June 1, in Antigua, Guatemala. Coordinated by the Instituto de Salud Global (ISGlobal) from Barcelona, the event had the collaboration of the Maternal Health Task Force (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Hea

June 05, 2018

First World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health (MERH) 2018

The congress was held from the 17th – 19th May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, under the auspices of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), the University of Edinburgh and National Health Service Scotland in close collaboration with experts and organizations (including International Organization for Migration and World Health Organization) from other regions of the world (http://www.merhcongress.com/). The European Journal of Public Health supplement (Volume 28, Issue suppl_1, 1 May 2

May 23, 2018

Absolute income is a better predictor of coverage by skilled birth attendance than relative wealth quintiles in a multicountry analysis: comparison of 100 low- and middle-income countries

Having high-quality data available by 2020, disaggregated by income, is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD). However, few low and middle-income countries (LMICs) collect systematic data on household income. In this paper, we used a new approach based on the combination of aggregate data on income at country level and income inequality as well as micro-data on relative wealth to assess the extent to which income differentials can predict skilled birth attendance (SBA) and institutio

April 24, 2018

EPITER - Scholarship

The postdoctoral researcher Carolina Coll was the winner of the EPITER Best Communication Award and Scholarship in Field Epidemiology to attend the European Congress of Epidemiology 2018 to be held in Lyon (France), next July. The scholarship was offered by the EPITER Association, a co-organizer of the event, who intends to support and promote field epidemiology for early career researchers. During the event, Carolina will present about her work and research entitled “Demand for family pla

April 13, 2018

Strengthening Analysis and Evidence for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH&N): Countdown to 2030 Workshop

The Countdown to 2030 initiative in collaboration with the West African Health Organization (WAHO), World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNFPA and APHRC organized the first workshop to strengthen the analytical capacity for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health & Nutrition in West and Central African countries. It is the first activity of a regional collaboration that will coordinate activities related to monitoring SDG goals in the region. The advance