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The Commission on
Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was launched by WHO in January
200. Over a two-year period it will produce a series of studies
on how concrete health interventions can lead to economic growth
and reduce inequity in developing countries. It will recommend a
set of measures designed to maximize poverty reduction and
economic development benefits of health sector investment. The
CMH is chaired by Harvard professor Dr Jeffrey Sachs. It has 6
working groups, and the Web site provides access to some of
their working papers.
Crop is a world-wide network
of researchers working on poverty. CROP organizes workshops and
conferences to bring researchers together and calls for papers
on specific topics. Studies produced by members of the crop
network are available on the Web site, along with a quarterly
newsletter.
The Eldis Web site is a ‘gateway’ to information on environment and
development issues. It
provides
links to full-text documents,
other Web sites, book and article references, as well as
descriptions of organizations. Eldis is funded by Danida and
Sida, and is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) at Sussex University in the UK.
ID21 provides reports
on the
latest British research on development. It is aimed at
policymakers and development managers in the field. The Web site
includes a database of research digests, a selection of one-page
Research Highlights and contact details of people working in
development. Research is categorised according to a number of
themes, including health.
The International Development
Goals set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in
health and education, and protection of the environment to be
reached by 2015. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank,
the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development
Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies. The
Web site provides information on progress towards achieving the
goals on a regional and global basis.
IDS is an
internationally-renowned centre for research and teaching on
development, established in 1966 and based at Sussex University in the
UK.
Its Web site contains an
overview of its research and teaching programme, along with
links to many full-text documents produced by IDS.
The
IPHN is a world-wide network of people, health and business
organizations, and NGOs who exchange information on integrating
health into poverty eradication policies, and promoting
community partnership and inter-sectoral action. IPHN
produces
an electronic ‘poverty and health’ newsletter which contains
news, a list of forthcoming events and meetings, information
about relevant organizations and a review of recent-produced
resources relevant to poverty and health.
The People's Health Assembly
(PHA) was a major meeting organized by civil society
organizations and networks which aimed to put health at the top
of the policy agenda and adovcate a people-centred approach to
health and development. The assembly took place near Dhaka,
Bangladesh between 4-8 December 2000. Participants adopted the
People’s Charter for Health. This is available on the Web
site, along with PHA's Framework Paper and four topical
Background Papers.
PovertyNet is run by the World
Bank. The site is maintained by the Poverty Reduction Group,
part of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at
the Bank. The site contains a section on poverty and health
which includes country data, information on World Bank
activities in the area, and access to Bank papers on the topic.
Social Watch is an
international network of citizens’ organizations, with a
secretariat in Uruguay, concerned with poverty eradication. The
site provides access to reports on poverty in different
countries, and on different themes, including health. It also
has a useful facility for looking-up a wide variety of
development indicators according to country and year.
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