Health in European Societies

An ESHMS (European Society for Health and Medical Sociology) 2009 Special 
Interest Meeting on “Comparative Research In Health Sociology and Social 
Epidemiology”: Present research and future collaboration.


Organized by:

Piet Bracke
Health and Demographic Research @ Ghent University, Belgium
& Olaf von dem Knesebeck

Department of Medical-Sociology, University Medical Center Hamburg-
Eppendorf, Germany

 

Venue:

Department of Sociology, Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium

March 27-28, 2009

 
 
 

The main goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers  working in the 
fields of social epidemiology, health sociology, and related fields, from a 
comparative perspective. We are specifically interested in researchers involved 
in the comparisons of European societies  .

We would highly appreciate your contribution to this meeting and kindly invite 
you to consider participation.

 

The meeting is roughly comprised of two interrelated parts.

In the first part  innovative research in comparative health sociology or social 
epidemiology will be discussed. Researchers are invited to make theoretical, 
methodological or empirical contributions. The deadline for abstract submission 
is December 15th 2008. We encourage presenters to send in full papers by 
March 1st 2009. For this part we additionally invited two plenary speakers.  
Clare Bambra (Dunham University) is invited to talk about Welfare States and 
Health Outcomes.; Anton Kunst (Erasmus University) will talk about  Social 
Inequality and Health from a Comparative Perspective.

 

The second part implies  a more informal round-table debate with experts in 
the field. The main goal of these discussions is the fostering of future 
collaboration among health sociologists in the field of comparative research. 
More specifically, we want to discuss setting up a European network of 
researchers interested in joining forces concerning both education and 
research. We want to take a look at EU funding possibilities, and we also aim 
to explore opportunities for collecting large scale health related information, for 
instance, through designing a special module on health for the sixth round of 
the European Social Survey. We invited Jaak Billiet (K.U. Leuven) of the 
Central Co-coordinating Team of the ESS to elaborate on this.

 

We would like to start the meeting on Friday, March 27th in the morning,  and 
finish on Saturday, 28th in the afternoon.

 
 
 

Deadline for abstract submission: December 15, 2008.

For more information and abstract submission, go to: 
http://www.psw.ugent.be/ESHMSworkshop2009

 

 

Registration: 100€, including lunch on Friday and Saturday and a meeting 
dinner on Friday