Current Events - health and politics
These events are not organised by us, but we think they are interesting. Please contact the organisers if you want to know more or book a place. Let us know if you want to suggest events to include here, and we welcome reports on events you have attended. If you want our own events they are here.
Economic Recession and Mental Health
Health Policy and Practice Network at the University of Edinburgh
Thursday, 4th March 2010 in the Teviot Row House Dining Room, Bristo Square, Edinburgh.
Registration opens at 12.00, lunch is available from 12.30 and the seminar starts at 13.15. There will be four presentations, providing different perspectives on the potential impact of economic crisis on population mental health. Following each presentation, an invited discussant will make some introductory remarks and then there will be an opportunity for a general discussion. The seminar will end with an opportunity to consider research priorities and possibilities in relation to the day’s theme, followed by drinks and networking (close at 18.00).
Presentations
Michaela Benzeval (Research Project Director, West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow) Income drops, financial difficulties, job loss and mental health: what can longitudinal evidence tell us about the impact of a recession on health?’
Carol Tannahill (Director, Glasgow Centre for Population Health) ‘Urban regeneration, mental health and the recession: some lessons from the GoWell programme’Jamie Pearce (Reader in Human Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh): ‘Economic recessions and socio-spatial inequalities in mental health’
Stephen Platt (Professor of Health Policy Research, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh): ‘Suicide in a time of economic crisis: evidence and policy implications’
The seminar fee is £20. If you would like to attend this event, please go to the website and book your place
Health Policy & Politics Network (HPPN) Conference
Tuesday, 16th March 2010 10.00-16.00
University of Manchester
free one-day event on any topic related to health politics, policy or management
NHS Newham Conference
World Class Commissioning in an Age of Migration
Tuesday 16 March 2010, West Ham Football Club, London E13
9.30am – 4.30pm
The people of migrant communities in England face widespread difficulties when seeking access to health services. Newham’s population includes some of the poorest, most ethnically diverse and mobile groups in the UK. As part of the NHS Pacesetter programme to promote equality, we have been working with local migrant communities to identify and overcome barriers to health services.
This conference, sponsored by NHS Newham, will:
- examine the barriers to health services experienced by migrant communities;
- consider the commissioning skills needed to support diverse and mobile populations;
- assess the costs, benefits and risks of restricting migrant people’s access to NHS services.
The following have been invited to speak at the conference:
- Joan Sadler OBE (DoH)
- David Stout (NHS Confederation)
- Shami Chakrabarti (Liberty)
- Professor Richard Wilkinson (Equality Trust)
- Edwin Borman (BMA Council)
Workshops and seminars will be led by Medécins du Monde (UK), Migrants’ Rights Network, British Medical Association, TUC, and London Wide LMC.
A new production by the award-winning playwright Peter Cox will also be presented.
Delegate fees:
NHS organisations: £100, Voluntary organisations: £50, Private sector: £200
A full conference programme will be published shortly. There are a limited number of places so please register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
To pre-register please email c.andreatta@migrantsrights.org.uk with WCC Migration in the subject line.
Why are more unequal societies socially dysfunctional? Darwinian insights
Wednesday 31st March 2010 Time: 10.00 – 5.00 (followed by drinks)
Venue: G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, UCL
Co-sponsored by the UCL International Institute for Society and Health (IISH) RSVP essential as there are a limited numbers of spaces: iish@ucl.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Morning: Chair: Paul Coombes, London Business School
10.00 Welcome and Programme Overview
10.05 –11.05 Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Kate E Pickett: More unequal societies are socially dysfunctional: the evidence
11.05 –11.20 Questions
11.20–11.30 Short break
11.30–12.30 Professor Martin Daly: The unequal effects of inequality: Darwinian explanations
12.30–12.45 Questions
12.45 –1.45 LUNCH (available to purchase from Roberts Building Foyer café)
Afternoon: Chair: Dr Richard Webb, Darwin@LSE
1.45–2.45 Professor Stephen Suomi: Early life mediators of inequality
2.45–3.00 Questions
3.00–3.15 Short break
3.15–5.00 Discussion; Questions and Answers Session
Discussants: Professor Jay Belsky, Dr Oliver Curry, Professor Mark van Vugt
Panel: Richard Wilkinson, Kate E Pickett, Martin Daly, Stephen Suomi
5.00 Drinks - Roberts Building Foyer
International People's Health University
A short training course from 12th April to 16th April 2010 in London, UK.
The curriculum includes
- the struggle for health: challenges, strategy and practice, achievements and new directions
- working with communities
- social determinants of health
- comprehensive primary health care
- the political economy of health, including globalisation
- health systems
- the right to health: principles, achievements and new directions;
- people’s health and environmental change;