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GE 26B Winter Syllabus

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RWJF/Health Equity Summit

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Summit 2017: Health Equity in the Americas

Examining and building strategies for health equity 

November 14-15, 2017 

Cuernavaca, Mexico 

A collaborative effort of: 

Agenda: TBA

You may contact the project manager, Andrea Leiva, for further information at andrealeiva@mednet.ucla.edu

This has all been made possible thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundaation

 


 

Health inequities across the Americas persist, and in some cases, are widening. While health is recognized as a fundamental human right, health inequities, which are avoidable, obstruct individuals and communities from achieving their best health and development potential. To understand and put forward proposals to address these inequities, the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and the WORLD Policy Analysis Center will hold a two-day summit during November 14-15, 2017. The Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health) of México will host the meetings at its Cuernavaca campus. Findings and discussions from the Summit are intended to help inform policies and practices in the participating nations.

 

Entitled Summit 2017: Health Equity in the Americas, this convening builds on the work of the PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas (the Commission) and will take place in collaboration with leaders from countries of Latin America and North America. In addition, the UCL Institute of Health Equity will lend expertise and the WORLD Policy Analysis Center will bring comprehensive global social policy data to assist in examining potential solutions at a national and regional scale to health inequities. 

 

The Program. During this two-day, action-oriented health equity meeting, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), we will lay the groundwork for new analysis, ultimately helping to move the needle in the development of health equity solutions for nations in both Latin and North America. The purpose of this convening is three-fold:

  1. To expand and advance the work of the PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas. Sessions will explore best approaches to addressing marginalization including across gender, race/ethnicity, class and other social determinants of health. 
  2. To exchange information gathered from existing Latin American regional efforts as well as global policy databases such as the WORLD Policy Analysis Database to advance goals related to health equity.
  3. To bring together an international group of public health, health care, social policy and systems experts and leaders from Latin America, the United States, the UK and other global areas. This group will set the stage to address the need for ongoing sharing, collaboration and advancement of this work to promote health equity.

 

Focus areas of the Summit will be framed by the action areas and drivers linked with the RWJF Culture of Health initiative: 1) making health a shared value; 2) fostering cross-sector collaboration; 3) creating healthier, more equitable communities; and 4) strengthening integration of health services and systems.

 

Within this framework, the sessions will address what works to reduce inequities including how to reduce social and economic inequalities across groups and increase social connectedness. Potential topics include:

  • Similarities and differences in drivers of the major forces of marginality between countries
  • Intersectionality of marginality and factors such as gender equity and discrimination based on race/ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, SOGI, and other features
  • Approaches to reducing economic and social marginalization
  • Gender equity policies and programming related to health equity
  • Social cohesion policies and programming related to health equity
  • Sustainability of social cohesion-driven programming

 

At the same time, the topics and focus areas will build on the work the Commission in the areas of social and biological factors and the life course as well as select areas of socioeconomic and political context, such as governance, and pathways to health, including social cohesion.

 

The Participants. The Summit will rely on expertise of approximately 50 health equity leaders who will represent health-related organizations from nations throughout North and South America. We will invite leaders in positions that can influence policy, programming and efforts to reduce health inequities in the nations and the region. We will invite researchers, scholars, and professionals who are renowned for their work from multiple disciplines including: social policy, public health, business, public affairs, clinical, and health care delivery. Participants will represent both local- and state/national-level professionals.

 

Expected Outcomes. The two-day session will support the work of health equity experts who engage in meaningful discussions and provide direction in their home nations and the region to drive policy and other changes to affect health equity.  The session will advance the embedding of concepts, best practices and policies on health equity into RWJF’s Culture of Health Initiative in the United States.  Ultimately, with the depth of the proposed action-oriented sessions and the expertise of participants, we believe the two-day meeting will result in well-identified pathways for tangible steps to take to address health inequities across all countries in the Americas. We will produce a brief/report to inform and serve as a guide post for health equity efforts in the Americas. Finally, we envision that this meeting will strengthen collaborative networking dedicated to an understanding and building of ideas on how to expand and generate health equity knowledge-sharing. 

 


 

Check Back December 2017 for Post-Meeting Materials

Giving

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Research Scholars

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Blum Research Scholars

This will consist of both undergraduate and graduate students who are actively participating in research being done by the Blum Center.

Faculty Research

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Faculty Research
   

Research conducted by faculty of the UCLA Blum Center focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the social determinants of health to reduce poverty and enhance the well-being of impoverished people of Latin America. Visit this page often to catch the latest UCLA Blum Center research published by international, peer-reviewed journals.

 

Manual

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A brief introduction to editing your webpages

This site uses a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) rich text editor that mimics some of the features found in programs such as Office Word, Pages, etc.

This manual is provided to help you navigate through the site and to edit pages using the editor.

The editor is optimized for usage in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. If you are experiencing difficulties with IE, please toggle compatibility mode.

**Please note. We do not recommend copying and pasting directly from another rich text editor into the editor.

Go to Register

**You can change your password after logging in.

Once logged in, you will remain logged in until you either logout or you close your browser.

To logout go to /register/logout

Once logged in, navigate to the page you would like to edit:


To edit a page, navigate to that page and look for the links labeled “Edit” and “Revisions.”

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If you only see html markup language in the text field labeled "content," then you might have compatibility mode activated. The following link discusses how to use compatibility mode in IE9. IE8 compatibility mode operates in a similar fashion.

If you are not sure which version of Internet Explorer you have, then press "Alt+H" and click on "About Internet Explorer"

1. After logging in, navigate to the page that you would like to edit.

2. If the page is editable, then you should see a link about 1/3rd of the page down labeled "Edit". Click on this button.

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3. This will open the editor. Please note that the section and description fields are usually empty.

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4. Edit the page using the editor. *For advanced users, you can edit the html directly by clicking on

5. We highly recommend creating your document in the editor and not in another word processor. If you do create the document in another word processor then please convert the document to a .txt file and do a copy from that document. You will lose all formatting and will need to reformat the document using the editor. This is why we recommend editing the document in the editor first. Please see "Why doesn't my page look like it did in Word (or another rich text editor)?" below to see what happens to when copying from a word document.

6. You must click on the button labeled "OK" before your changes will take effect.

Maximize Editor.png- Maximize Editor – this will maximize your editor to the size of your browser window *** you must minimize the editor and click on “OK” before your changes will be saved.
Minimize Editor.png- Minimize Editor – this will minimize/return the editor to the predetermined size
Find and Replace.png- Find and Replace – find a word or string of words within the text of Xinha to be replaced.
Style Editor.png- Style Editor – add a predefined style (heading 1 -5, normal, address and formatted)
Font Size.png- Font size – control the size of the font by point
Bold.png - Bold
Italicize.png- Italicize
Underline.png- Underline
Font Color.png- Change the font color
Font Background.png- Change font background color
Subscript.png- Subscript
Superscript.png- Superscript
Left align.png- Left align-text
Center align.png- Center align-text
Right align.png- Right align-text
Justify.png- Justify text
Ordered list.png- Add an ordered list
Format ordered list.png- Change format of ordered list
Unordered list.png- Add an unordered list
Horizontal rule.png- Add a horizontal rule
- Insert a special character
External link.png- Add an external link
Internal link.png- Add an internal link
Add photo.png- Add an image
Toggle HTML.png- Toggle HTML Source
Tag editor.png- Quick Tag Editor – customize tags and attributes – this is more of a tag builder that will allow you to build custom html without going directly to the source.
Edit HTML.png- Edit html – allows you to add custom html without going directly to the source.
Help.png- Help – provides information on keyboard shortcuts
Print page.png- Print page

Keyboard shortcuts
The editor provides the following key combinations:
ENTER new paragraph(<P>)
SHIFT-ENTER insert linebreak(<BR>)
CTRL-A Select all
CTRL-B Bold
CTRL-I Italic
CTRL-U Underline
CTRL-S Strikethrough
CTRL-L Justify Left
CTRL-E Justify Center
CTRL-R Justify Right
CTRL-J Justify Full
CTRL-Z Undoes your last action
CTRL-Y Redoes your last action
CTRL-N Set format to paragraph
CTRL-1 .. CTRL-6 Headings (<h1> .. <h6>)
CTRL-X Cut selection
CTRL-C Copy selection
CTRL-V Paste from clipboard

For you Mac users out there, to insert a line break <BR> press control+return.

*Please note using this method to add images will not display the images in the page. You will only create a link for someone to navigate to. Please see "How do I add an image?" below on how to add an image.

There are two types of links: external and internal.

External

External link.png– a link to a website, document, image that is hosted outside of your site (i.e., http://www.cnn.com, https://www.ctsacentral.org or https://www.ctsacentral.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/home_promo/Dr.%20Gahl%20in%20lab.jpg)
  1. Highlight the text that you would like to create a link to.

  2. Click on the image for "Insert a Web Link."

    • In addition, you can rightclick on your mouse to open additional options
    • Click on "Make link. . ." to open link options.
    • Please note that there is a css conflict that makes the images here makes the images disappear.  The functionality still works.  We are looking into correcting this.
    • right click nav

  3. Type in the entire website address (including http:// or https://) into the field labeled "URL:"

  4. Add a few words to describe what the link is for in the field labeled "Title (tooltip)." This will give some additional text to a user when they hover over the link with their mouse and give additional information to website crawlers such as google as to the nature of the link.

  5. Choose how you want the user’s browser to open the link using the dropdown menu labeled "Target:"
    • (Default) – "None (use implicit):" link will open in the same window replacing the previous contents. Users will have to use the back button to return to the page that they were on prior to clicking on your link.
    • (Preferred) – "New window (_blank):" link will open in a brand new browser window.
    • (not used) – "Same frame (_self):" same as "None (use implicit)" (depreciated as we do not use frames for website design).
    • (not used) – "Top frame (_top):" same as above.
    • (not used) – "Other" allows you to enter another attribute.

  6. Click on "OK."

Internal

Internal link.png– a link to a page, document or image hosted by your site. (i.e., /pages/about, /pages/contact, /site/files/view/logo.jpg)

  1. Click on the link to “Insert Internal Link”
    • Please note – do not highlight text that you would like to hyperlink as this tool will replace the text with what you input in the “Title (tooltip):” field.

  2. There are two types of internal links that you can add: pages (internal web pages) and documents These instructions are only for pages. The next faq discusses how to add a document or image,


  3. Type in the internal path to the page you would like to link to.

    • If the page is in your program area, then you only need to type in the name of the page. For example, if I am updating the “about” program area and I want to link to this manual, then all I would have to do is type the following: “manual”.
    • If the page is in a different program area, then you need to type in the directory name as well. For example, I want to link to a page in “education” titled “award,” I would input the following: “/education/pages/award”.

  4. Input what you want your link to be titled under the field labeled “Title (tooltip):

  5. Press “Ok” to add the link.”

*Please note that Firefox is the only browser that does not support this feature.

Upload an image or document by using the “Insert Internal Link” or “Insert Image” link.

  1. Click on open folder.

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  2. Navigate to the appropriate folder. Documents are uploaded to the folder named docs and Images are uploaded to the folder named images.



  3. Click on “Choose File.” This will open up a window to allow you to add a file from your computer.

  4. Once you locate the file, click on it and click on “Choose.”

  5. Click on “Upload.”

  6. The file is now uploaded to the folder. You can either click on “Cancel” to return to the editor or continue to add your document or image to the page.”

*Please note that Firefox is the only browser that does not support this feature.

Is the image you want to add already in storage? If not, then you need to upload the file (Please see "How do I upload a document or image?" above).

Once the file is uploaded into file storage (size limit of <100mb), do the following.

  1. Click on the link to “Insert Image”

  2. Click on the link labeled “Open Folder.”


  3. Locate the file in the “images” folder.



  4. Select the file you want to link to.



  5. Click on “OK.”

  6. Provide additional text to describe the image for web crawlers and the sight impaired.

  7. Click on “OK” to add the image.

If you need to change the properties!

  1. Highlight the image.
  2. Click on the link to “Insert Image”
    • The right click image properties feature does not work.

  3. Modify the attributes in pixels. For example if I want 5px space on the top and bottom of the image with 10px spacing on the sides then I would input “5” & “10” in the fields for spacing. If I wanted a border, I could add a 2px border by inputting “2” in the field for border.

  4. Click “OK” to finalize the modification.

Is the document you want to add already in storage? If not, then you need to upload the file (Please see "How do I upload a document or image?" above).

Once the file is uploaded into file storage (size limit of <100mb), do the following.

  1. Click on the image to “Insert Internal Link”

  2. Click on the link labeled “Open Folder.”



  3. Locate the file in either the “docs” or “images” folder.



  4. Select the file you want to link to.

  5. Click on “Ok.”

  6. Change the name of the link by updating the information inputted in the “Title (tooltip):”

  7. Click on “Ok” to add the link.

Click on the button that says "Revisions"

This page will list all the versions that were published. Your most recent changes will be listed at the top.

Use the radial selection under the column labeled "Live Revision" to select the version of the page that was still working.

Contact pbabin@mednet.ucla.edu for additional assistance updating the page.

1. After submitting an edit, you can view the previous versions of a page by clicking on the button/link labeled “Revisions.”

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2. All previously published versions of the page will be displayed on this page.

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3. The magnifying glass shows what the page will look like if that particular version is selected to be live.

4. Clicking on the link labeled “diff” will show the differences between the version displayed and the one previous. A red strike-through represents a deletion. A blue-highlight represents additions.

revisiondiff.png

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5. The column labeled “Live Revision” shows which version is currently being displayed on the website. You can revert to a previous revision by selecting the radial of any previous version.

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6. The trashcan allows you to delete any version submitted. We highly recommend that you do not use this feature! By deleting a version, the version is no longer available for a user to return to.

Copying and Pasting text – please do not directly copy and paste text from other wysiwyg editors – the editor will retain the custom formatting from the copy which will result in errors with the display of the text. If you do copy and paste from word, please click on the yellow broomin the left hand corner to remove much of the stylization and extra hidden characters.

Example

Display of page in the editor

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Html of page edited in the editor

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Display of page created and copied from Word

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Html of page created and copied from Word

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UCLA Blum Center Research Blog

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Student Research

Structural Adjustments and their Impact on Nicaragua's Health Care System

Jessica Aguilera

Asociacion La Alianza in Combating Human Trafficking

Brianna Bockman

The Importance of Water Sanitation in Rural El Salvador: Mi Escuela Saludable SWASH+

Jessica Esmeralda Cubias

The Brazilian Response: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the National STD/AIDS Programme 

Gloria Gallardo

Participatory  Approach to HIV Prevention

Rhea Mathew

Housing Improvement and Chagas' Disease Control in the Southern Cone

Gilberto Padilla Mercado

The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade of 1980

Lester A. Rosales

The Ongoing Femicide in Cuidad Juarez

Aileen Sanchez

Getting People Moving in Mexico City: A Program Analysis

Erin Standen



demo page

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Advisory Committee

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Advisory Committee

The purpose of this committee is to advise leadership on the direction of ways the Blum Center can be most effective in carrying out its mission.

History and Mission

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BLUM CENTERS AT UC
History and Mission


The Blum Centers for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley and UC Davis were established to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to alleviating global poverty.

UC Berkeley
UC Davis

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