You are invited to attend:
Monday 15 March 5.00pm
An ICHS panel presentation and discussion by:
Dr James Banks, IFS
Alissa Goodman, IFS
Dr Chris White, ONS
"What is happening to inequality and health?"
Chaired by: Professor Mel Bartley, UCL
author of the recently published Health
Inequality, Polity Press 2003
Alissa Goodman, James Banks (Inst for Fiscal Studies) and Chris White
(Office for Nat Stats) "Trends in economic and health inequality".
The UK government is committed to reducing differences between those in
the more and less prosperous sectors of society in adult and child health
and life expectancy. It is now 5 years since the Acheson Report set out
the extent of health inequality and put forward suggested policy options to reduce
it. What can we learn from looking at the most up to date figures on
trends in social, economic and health inequality? Are decreases in
unemployment, help for those wishing to gain skills and return to work, and financial aid to less
well-off families having the desired effect on health?
Alissa Goodman and James Banks will present some recent data on trends
in economic inequality, and Chris White will talk about the Office for
National Statistics' work to update health inequality data using the latest National Census.
Alissa Goodman and James Banks work at the Institute for Fiscal Studies,
the foremost economic policy research institute in the UK. James is
Deputy Research Director and Alissa is Director of Education, Employment and
Evaluation research and an expert on inequality, having published
extensively on the subject. Chris White is Senior Research Officer at the
Office for National Statistics. The ONS produces much of the information
on health trends that is used in policy formulation by British governments.
He is presently working on changes in the social and demographic composition of
neighbourhoods, and on the effects of area disadvantage across the life
course on mortality between 1995-2000.
E-mail: [log in to unmask] if you wish to put any questions to
the panel in advance of the seminar.
The seminars will be held at ICHS Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL,
1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0207 679 1708, Fax 0207 813 0242. Drinks & snacks at 6pm after the seminar.
RSVP seminar attendance by 12/03/04 (indicating any special needs and for directions to the seminar room).
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