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Closing the gap in a generation - Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
The Commission calls for closing the health gap in a generation
"A new global agenda for health equity
Our children have dramatically different life chances depending on where they were born. In Japan or Sweden they can expect to live more than 80 years; in Brazil, 72 years; India, 63 years; and in one of several African countries, fewer than 50 years. And within countries, the differences in life chances are dramatic and are seen worldwide. The poorest of the poor have high levels of illness and premature mortality. But poor health is not confined to those worst off. In countries at all levels of income, health and illness follow a social gradient: the lower the socioeconomic position, the worse the health. It does not have to be this way and it is not right that it should be like this. Where systematic differences in health are judged to be avoidable by reasonable action they are, quite simply, unfair. It is this that we label health inequity. Putting right these inequities – the huge and remediable differences in health between and within countries – is a matter of social justice. Reducing health inequities is, for the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (hereafter, the Commission), an ethical imperative. Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale."
Key facts on health
Spending on health per person per year:
UK average: £1,400
Sub-Saharan Africa: £5
World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended minimum: £17
Health workers:
WHO’s recommended minimum is five health workers per 2,000 people
In some countries there is only one health worker per 1,000 people
In Europe there are ten per 1,000
Global shortage of health workers will be 4 million by 2015
The coordination problem:
there are more than 40 bilateral donors
26 UN agencies
20 global and regional funds and
90 global health initiatives
20% of UK direct aid to countries goes to health = £515 million a year
Total DFID health spend is close to £800 million – this includes money we give to agencies, the UN and Civil Society
Are you really sure that you don't understand why the IRA have re-started their bombing campaign in the United Kingdom?
On the morning after the Cannary Warf bomb blast I was watching the TV. It was the time when children's programmes should have been on. The were late by an hour because of the discussions on the bombing, which my eight year old son and six year old daughter watched because their grandmother lives in London and because the kept expecting the cartoons to come on. The discussion ended and their programmes came on. There was no mention of the bombing- why should there be? These were programmes for little ones, how can anyone expect children to know anything about such things? OK, a possibly valid point, leaving a aside facts such as the numbers of children my sons age who shoulder guns and fight wars in countries world wide. After these 'kiddies' programmmes came programmes for the adults who like to watch tv in the mornings. Taking it for read that the bombing was THE major event that has happened in the UK for some time it was surprising to me how little there was on this event. Lot's about minor life items- it was as if the bomb had happened in another country.
Now, look for a moment at another major happening, The Scott Report. 700 people thown out of work. Directors and their families dragged through mire of public criticism and social disgrace. Machinary supplied to a country that has a proven track record of atrocities against ethnic groups and known affiliations to terrorist groups, including the IRA. government guidelines changed to fascilitate the sales. What happens? Nothing. It is as if none of this matters. Who cares if lies are told in parliament? Who cares if moral values- caring for lives, believing in honesty and straight dealing- who cares if these things can be thrown aside when money and government policy dictates that they are now a block to further goals?
Another seemingly random jump of thought takes me to the Newbury bypass. What has that to do with bombing and maiming innocent people? Think about this. If I belonged to a group of nature loving travellers and we decided to move into the woods that the bypass is going through how long would it be before there were shouts of anger from all corners about us despoiling a site of special scientific interest? Would we be allowed to live in harmony with the wood? Would the law be enforced, and even changed if needs be, so that this site could be cleared of our unnatural interreaction with it? The laws relating to this SSI would be all important. The SSI would be all important. So how come a swathe of it can be completely destroyed? Why is the site of no interest suddenly when others deem it so?
I can’t see the world getting less complex, can you?
A world where the more you really know the less you can really believe in the system… or maybe the more you can take from the system.
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Even that sentence is too complicated!
I’ve been working on something for the last x number of years which, initially, looks like a technological super Filofax come Smartphone come all sorts of other things that could help life work better…
…but, it hit me the other night that what I am really trying to do is sort out the problems caused by lack of knowledge and misunderstanding. More, I want to get rid of the battle between good and evil or, at least bringit out into the open and see it for what it really is.
Whatever that is.
Who do you believe regarding the happenings of today?
The government? The opposition? The Press? The Media? Your religious leaders? Your workmates?
“If you look into the Abyss the Abyss will look into you”. Nietzsche. Just heard it on TV – BBC1Spooks – now there’s a programme designed to twist the mind. How much of our UK TV programming is just that? Programming. For our minds. So we keep on being either frightened or angry or whatever is needed for others to control our realities.
Image via WikipediaThe mores of the tribes are the bindings that I have fought against for years and now find I long for but cannot accept.
To accept one rule is to accept all the rules and many of these are ways of being blind to the cruelties that the tribe inflicts on those it finds outside its boundaries.
Blindness is not only a physical characteristic but a mental one as well.
The strictures of a tribe allow this non physical blindness to rule over common sense and truth.
The ending of one time period - a year - is a time when the rules play their part over those who keep their patterns. Christmas and New Year are times when those in the UK swamp themselves with food and luxury items and, in many cases, use alcohol to excess as a means of ramping up the festivities.
Image via WikipediaWilliam Cobbett, in Rural Rides, wrote of the plight of the farm workers – their repositioning as the lowest of the low in the hierarchical class structure of the UK.
The Industrial Revolution altered many things. One of these seems to have been the mindset of the farmers who decided that wealth and position were quality items to aim for as part of their quest in life,
Farm labourers stopped sharing houses with their ‘masters’. The Enclosure Act removed the small strip cultivations and parcelled land into larger fields, each with its own crop, covering multiple acres rather than smaller, sub acre plots of differing focus’. Wages dropped to appalling levels and machinery took over tasks that required ten people suddenly required far fewer. Admittedly jobs in industrial areas suddenly required more labour but since there were so many unemployed or unemployable people around this left many in dire poverty.
Image by srippon via Flickr Money controls every aspect of our lives in the UK and money is an invention that need not control everything.
People die from lack of money.
They starve, they freeze, they die from lack of proper medical help. Their lives are limited from birth to death by money. Their education is limited by money. Their relationships are limited by money. Where they live is limited by money. To say their dreams and aspirations are limited by money is self evident.
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
The supply of money in capitalist countries is based on the trickle down effect - those with it release it to those below them and they, in turn release it to those below them until the lowest levels are reached.
Because of laws based on human rights we now have a system running in the UK that agrees that each life is worth a certain sum. Whether this is a work based minimum wage or an out of work based benefit minimum or even child support or disability support minimum - each life is supposed to be worth a certain sum regardless of race, creed, colour or other factor.
However, all these systems are regulated by one overriding factor - the minimum/ maximum argument.
For those fighting for the rights of humans to live and enjoy their lives it is the maximum amount capable of being got for each person out of a limited amount and for those whose designs are aimed at preserving the divide then it is the minimum that each person can be limited to so that the rich/ poor divide remains as strong and as wide as it can be without open revolt from the masses which can destroy the systems that the rich need in order to enjoy their lives.
Few rich people want poor people on their beaches unless it’s by invitation, because they work there or because the rich profit from it.
There are more and more areas in the UK that are becoming too expensive for any but the richest people to live in. Even the most modest of houses is now fetching over the top prices simply because of their location. Like the white / black divide in apartheid South Africa the rich live in their areas and the support workers for the rich live in theirs. There are now more people in service in the UK than there were in Victorian times.
I used to thing that there was a positive right minded reason for using money as a control tool but, having watched the excesses of the well off - whether they be government bodies or private individuals - I know that money is used to control only one thing - access to the playgrounds of the rich.
Imagine how many crimes would stop happening if everyone had enough money!
But it won’t stop whilst money is in short supply.
If you lock a system whereby, without money there are no goods or services, then that system cannot work… especially if that system is based on historical performance and artificial controls… controls that are often in the direct hands of people who have their own personal agenda’s… which often include large amounts of money - which have to be siphoned out of the system somewhere - creating a shortfall somewhere else.
At the moment world leaders are talking about taking about a hundred years or more to just break the boundaries of actual poverty. The Millennium Declaration Goals of the United Nations - many to be achieved by 2015 were shown to be totally inaccurate based on the actions of signatories to it in the few years after it was published.
Countries put their own people first and themselves first - it’s a human thing J
There is a way of rebuilding the way money is used so that it never gets in the way of creative living or even the simple necessities of human, animal or plant life - let alone the planetary needs of a group of fauna and flora and history like we are - we deserve to live and enjoy because we are unique and amazing - leaving the tools to do that job up to a set of old era based economic ways instead of building a new, working system for the modern era is not only criminal on any world scale but also wasteful and backward thinking.
How and when are we, the world, ever going to
Feed, clothe, educate and supply the world?
Get off world and colonise the planets?
Colonise the sea?
Make sure we don’t loose any more creatures or plants of this planet?
Capture for posterity everything that is happening from now on?
Save all world languages?
Sort out all the mental health problems directly attributable to living and working in a bad system
Let alone anything else each of us wants that we cannot do or have at this moment because of the severe restraints that money imposes - certainly in the UK if nowhere else (I can only talk about the UK because this is where I have spent most of my life).
If your life has allowed you a direct plug in to normal financial lifestyle tools then you will have credit, debt and work that pays just enough to keep you going whilst you build up a stock of money for retiring or speculating.
If you don’t live in this way then usually you live in debt with little or no money to add to a steadily increasing bank roll and no way to aim for anything other than drug and drink induced hilarity or sadness and anger.
If poverty was a lonely thing, suffered in silent, boxed in solitude then maybe poverty would only feel like a lack of a few things but, when confronted by multimedia presentations of how good life can be if you have money then poverty becomes unbearable - especially when you know that with money you would be alive and capable instead of barely just alive.
At the moment most world systems are run on the trickle down effect - huge sums fed in to a single person who then trickles it through his fingers down to the next people down the line who, in turn, trickle it through their fingers etc. The effect of this is to ensure that the top few get all that they want whilst making sure that those at the bottom get little or nothing because of the abstract concept of quantities… as each person lets some of their money go what they retain becomes less…. In a world of unknowns and costly prices for some of the simplest dreams you never know how much you might need in reserve - you never know when the next large dollop is going to land - so each of the tricklers withholds just a little bit more than they need and before you know it the bottom is coping with full drought whilst knowing, deep in their hearts, that money would solve their problems - would allow them to eat, to sleep safe, to grow and expand.
There is not enough money in the system at the moment to cope with any major new needs of the planet. There is not enough money now to cope with the needs of the poor. There is no more evidence than that needed. If something is dying somewhere because of something that money could buy then the system is failing.
But there does seem to be a way that keeps everything fairly balanced and doesn’t create waves except where waves need to happen… There are so many systems and sub systems running in this world at the moment that re styling money would only enhance what is happening - being designed to do exactly that - enhance.
Enhanced Capitalism - where money is only an accounting and performance tool - no longer a life or death tool. Where everything is capitalised when it has to be - Where each individual has a respected part to play in the whole, even if that part is not instantly apparent.
Each and every life is special and individual and important. Look around - it’s rare stuff - nothing as far as our life finders can see - light years and real years of time spent looking and no one yet.
So we have what we have. A whole ecosystem which we can learn to balance with but not while one lot of men are trying to kill off another lot of men.
Capitalism will always have its adversary because it is designed as an aggressive system - has had to be in order to gain ground - yet people don’t see that none of the money side is necessary in life at all - except maybe as a metering system with regards to the system as a whole. Money can be all of the things it is at present whilst being a readily available substance - like air… not like gold or diamonds or a Faberge egg.
This move effects quality of life in the profoundest of ways - Things change and they change fast. All the other systems and subsystems support the change - or are adapted to do so.
How does it work?
Take away the right of any country to starve any of its citizens of the currency of that country.
In five years time give everyone in the world an account with 1 in it.
Then add on 1,000 zero’s.
Between now and then start talking about what will happen… prices staying the same etc… actual and relative poverty explained….
Build lifelong learning tools into the account - and easy access to answers and desires, needs and even whims within reason and possibility…
Ask workers if they will stay on after five years or walk off … and sort other workers to take their places…
Sort out the ramifications of such a drastic change in world running… five years of talking and sorting…
Image via WikipediaCONVERSATIONS - DIALOGUES & MONOLOGUES… IT’S COMING NOW! THE NEXT STAGE OF HUMANITIES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT! ALL THANKS TO A FOLDER ON MOBILE PHONES… Simply Put… New phones have a button you push or a voice command that lets you record all of what is being inputted and outputted through the phone on an audio level…
The data- the conversation- sound input, is saved in a directory on the phone - whilst being sent and received across the network at the same time in order for the phone call to take place. So… Take this talk straight through to an secure online repository (meaning you can use this with any old phone - from anywhere) and use standard and specialist data handling techniques on the words spoken in order that operations can be done with it and on it and because of it… before sending back to the client. These operations can be • Any and all functions of a diary / appointments book. • A command interpreter / Command fulfiller. • A verbal real-time any formula calculator. • A real-time language translator. • A lie detector / voice stress analyser. • A visitor veracifier. • An analyst. • A rules applicator / guidance tool. • A brain use maximizer and minimiser… a balancer. Now… Add the input and output of the people using the system for social credit / capital and personal and group benefit and it can benefit the World holistically! Power up the switch board of life! It’s finally here Sir Tim… and any old phone will do But add the visuals and all the data from modern phones… • An injustice recorder and analyser with auto help mode - great for wars… Lots of mobile phones in Africa… throw a few more in now… • A society analyser. • Object and person recognition becomes far simpler - neighbourhood watch? • Identification of anything - antiques for instance • A next generation marketing tool. • Great for getting stuff at the best price. • Superb for entertainment on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale. • Superb for games on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale. • Superb for catastrophic events on a personal, local, regional, national, international or global scale - so much better than what we have available now! YOU CAN HELP BUILD THIS NEW SYSTEM TODAY! Connect to this in any way you want - A letter or fax through to any phone (default service) or the web and email or, for the power user blue tooth link… there all the time you need it there. Working while you play. Ready with more organised answers for whatever you need an answer for… in whatever format works for you… Some of the most expensive and powerful programmes in the World acting on your behalf… real-time document storage and retrieval... in a vault that can understand and act on any of that data… Instantly! Prizes… Relationships… Love… Business… Understanding… Illness… Money…………. So many uses A resource maximizer… A cataloguer… Your personal security so much more secure on so many levels… Instantly! Misunderstandings less misunderstood… …. Instantly! A financially and legally astute phone link with a global knowledge base and ever expandable storage space for everything you can output into it - with real-time backup and higher than government level security on all data of any sort within your vault… Whilst you let it know what you want it to do for you and it gets on and does it… Programmable in any language, capable of triggering any command on any computer from “Print all the stuff I said about John this morning” to “pull together everything about John A Smith and Co Ltd, mechanical engineers in Glasgow. Sort it by how much, who, when, where and why.” Even “You know what electricity I actually used last quarter so what should my bill actually be? Pay what I actually owe and write them an email explaining it all - and be polite!”…. !! And so much more … Just start using the service and the data types you input - conversations, photo’s, business documents, searches - have operations that can be / are triggered by that data’s particular format. If it’s a conversation it’s converted to text and stored or acted upon - ask a question and it reads and understands and goes to find an answer - if there isn’t an answer it goes out and asks people until it finds one - the person who finds the answer might score points or even cash (it could even be you for someone else!). Ask it to find you the best heart surgeon in the World and it will find that person by checking all the data and by asking people until it can offer you the names of the best surgeon or surgeons; You get a phone call, or a text, or an email, or a fax, or a even a letter in the post the next day. If it’s a set of commands it will see if it can understand and comply with them - “Switch on the lights outside and in the kitchen” can do just that. Because this technology understands language and is linked to personal databases, the sentence “Call mummy’s doctor and tell him mummy’s asleep and won’t wake up” will trigger a number of actions from connecting directly with the doctor and possibly even contacting the child’s aunt and even the nearest neighbours whilst finding someone online who is capable of talking calmly to a seven year old who is scared if there is no one else for them to talk to.
I’m sure you’ll think of other things to use this kit for, everybody else has so far… There’s a long list of uses!
If you want to talk about this in more detail (registering, franchising, partnerships, networking, Multimedia, press, employment, research, investment, general info, etc) call me on my UK mobile +44(0)7747838440 or write to me, Mark D. J. Aldiss, at Ty Crwn Bach, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, LL46 2YT, UK WANTED 20,000 INDIVIDUALS AND GROUP MEMBERS NOW!
Mark D. J. Aldiss, Ty Crwn Bach, Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, LL46 2YT Tel: +44 (0) 7747 838 440
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