Examples of high-priority research questions addressing action on social determinants of health
- Interventions that address health equity implications of current trends in food prices, agricultural policies and food (in)security, and changes in trade and investment in all aspects of food production, processing and sale. What policy and program responses will avoid negative impacts, and reduce food insecurity?
- Interventions that address different policy entry points to reduce the health inequities arising from health worker migration patterns, identifying the critical policy actors.
- Interventions that address women’s health and social protection given the increasing “feminisation” of work forces that has often accompanied the globalisation of labour markets.
- Interventions that address health equity with global climate change concerns, at the local level.
- Interventions that use organisational structures within health systems to sustain active community participation, inter-sectoral action on social determinants of health, and the abilities of community members to influence policies.
- Interventions that combine policy and implementation models, across sectors, that lead to improved local decision-making, net health equity gains in different vulnerable populations and community empowerment.
- Interventions and approaches that effectively involve targeted communities or populations in intervention development, implementation and evaluation.
- Interventions that effectively involve other sectors than the health sector in action oriented approaches to address health inequalities related to a wide range of health hazards (environmental, occupational, infrastructure such as roads, sanitation, etc.).
Purpose of the call
This call for research proposals aims at:
- Identifying the four most promising operational research and evaluation proposals submitted by CSOs;
- Refining methods, particularly on the attribution of changes in the distribution of health resulting from the interventions, and considerations to increase the interpretation and potential generalisability of results. For this, selected research proposals will be presented, discussed and improved during the 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, in Geneva, Switzerland;
- Facilitating the conduct of winning research proposals by expert mentoring, facilitating contacts with potential research funders, a cash award of up to USD 10,000 (to contribute to evaluation of the intervention) and facilitating the dissemination of results.
The deadline to submit applications is 23 May 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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