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The Society for Social Medicine and the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health & Ethics
Joint one-day meeting
THURSDAY 21ST APRIL 2005
Dahlgren and Whitehead and beyond:
The social determinants of health in research, policy and service delivery
Conference organizers: Eva Elliott, Laurence Moore, Gareth Williams, Sheila Foley (administrator)
Over the last 15 years Dahlgren and Whitehead's diagram representing the main determinants of health has become emblematic of a more holistic approach to understanding health inequalities. The diagram takes as axiomatic the real power of large-scale economic and social forces to damage health and limit behavioural change; but it also invites consideration of the different levels of practice and policy at which those forces could be blocked, modified or transformed. In the subsequent period, research on social determinants has developed in different directions, and an understanding of how these determinants operate alone and in combination is still hotly contested. Nonetheless, in many countries, including the UK (though by no means equally in its constituent parts), the dominant policy motif remains one of 'choosing health', often to the neglect of wider social and economic factors.
This conference provides an opportunity to:
* reflect on the Dahlgren and Whitehead 'rainbow'
* review current knowledge on the social determinants of health
* consider what more we need to know
* discuss what should be done in relation to the development of research, policy and service delivery.
Programme:
9.30-10.00: Coffee and Registration
10.00: Welcome
Professor Huw Beynon (Director, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
10.05: Setting the scene
Professor Laurence Moore (Director, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics)
Morning Sessions: Understanding the social determinants of health
Chair * Laurence Moore
Looking back
10.15-10.30: Reflections on a rainbow * Professor Margaret Whitehead (University of Liverpool)
Moving forward
10.30-11.00: Social class, the life course and health * Professor Mel Bartley (University College, London)
11.00-11.30: Break and Refreshments
11.30-12.00: People, places and health * Professor Sarah Curtis (Queen Mary College, London)
12.00-12.30: Exploring the gap between knowledge and action in the social determinants of health * Professor Dennis Raphael (York University, Toronto)
12.30-12.45: A response from Margaret Whitehead
12.45-1.30 Food and conversation
Afternoon sessions: workshops and panel discussion * What are the problems? What is to be done? What works?
1.30-3.00 Workshops
Three parallel workshops will address the implications of the morning's presentations for three areas: research, policy, and service delivery and organization. These will be introduced and facilitated by leading experts in the field.
Refreshments will be made available during the workshops
1. Research * Professor Jennie Popay (University of Lancaster)
2. Policy * Professor Mike Kelly (Health Development Agency, London)
3. Service Delivery and Organization * Professor Morton Warner (University of Glamorgan)
3.00-3.45: Panel Discussion
Chaired and introduced by Dr Toba Bryant, York University, Toronto
Panel: Margaret Whitehead, Mel Bartley, Sarah Curtis, Dennis Raphael, Jennie Popay, Mike Kelly, Morton Warner
3.45-4.00: Close and next steps * Professor Gareth Williams (Cardiff University)
Eva Elliott
PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
Senior Research Associate
Welsh Health Impact Assessment Support Unit
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT
Tel: 029 2087 9138
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CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.cf.ac.uk
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