[Alma Mata] Fwd: IISH Public Seminar, 11 July

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    From: Jane Johnson <jane.johnson at ucl.ac.uk>
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 Subject: IISH Public Seminar, 11 July
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           International Institute for Society and Health

                     2006 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES
                      You are invited to attend
                     Tuesday 11th July 5.00 pm

                     Professor Johannes Siegrist
          Director, Department of Medical Sociology at the
                     University of Dusseldorf,
                         Professor Diana Kuh
        MRC National Survey, Department of Epidemiology and
                         Public Health, UCL
                      Professor Andrew Steptoe
         Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

          ‘Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and
                        Policy Implications’
Social inequalities in health are persisting, or even
growing, in modern societies despite progress in medical
science and an increase in health care spending. In this
seminar Johannes Siegrist will briefly discuss the
significance of a five-year European Science Foundation
Programme within the current context of European health
policy.  Diana Kuh will illustrate the importance of early life
in explaining social inequalities in adult health and Andrew
Steptoe will demonstrate psychobiological mechanisms
linking stressful experience at work with physical disease

This seminar will be chaired by Professor Sir Michael
Marmot

This seminar will be held at UCL RSVP seminar
attendance by 07/07/06 (indicating any special needs and
for directions to the seminar room) Email: iish at ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7679 8249 Drinks & snacks at 6pm after the
seminar.

You may access an audio recording of past seminars at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm

The programme’s main results are summarized in ‘Social
Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy
Implications’ Oxford University Press ISBN no.  0-19-
856816-9 and explanations are given within three
interrelated frameworks of scientific analysis:
*   a life course approach that models and tests
    pathways from pregnancy to adult health
*   a stress-theoretical approach that explores how an
    adverse psychosocial environment affects health,
    with special emphasis on work, coping and
    psychobiological stress responses
*   a macro-sociological approach that deals with
    health effects of aggregate deprivation and its
    wider socio-political and economic determinants
Copies are available to purchase after the seminar at a
discounted price of £26.

Join us for drinks after the seminar and to launch ‘Social
Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy
Implications’






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