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On Behalf Of Martin White
Sent: 28 July 2009 13:59
Subject: SSM One-day meeting: Intervention-Generated Inequalities,
Newcastle, 8th September 2009
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you will be interested in attending the next UK Society for
Social Medicine one-day meeting, which is a satellite of this year's SSM
Annual Scientific Meeting in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Contemporary health strategies share the twin aims of improving overall
health and reducing socio-economic inequalities in health. Although
common sense may suggest that these aims should be achievable in tandem,
an intervention that improves the health of a population overall may
also increase socio-economic inequalities in health. There is growing
evidence that such 'intervention-generated inequalities' (IGIs) can
occur at all stages of the planning and delivery of health interventions
but, as yet, there is little agreement on what causes them and what can
and should be done about them.
The widespread nature and implications of such IGIs makes them of
importance to a variety of policy makers, practitioners and researchers.
Representatives of all these groups will be brought together in this
one-day meeting to share experience, develop theory and build consensus
concerning next steps in research, policy and practice in this area.
Each of four sessions will focus on a different theme within this topic
area, together tracing the 'story' of IGIs from observation to
prevention. Speakers include Peter Tugwell, Mark Petticrew, Graham Watt
and Sarah Wild.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 8th September at Newcastle
University. There are discounts available for booking both events (One
day meeting + ASM). Further details can be found at
http://www.ssm2009.org.uk/satellite.html. Early bird registration
closes on 31st July, after which prices will increase by about 15%, so
please register now!
We look forward to welcoming you to Newcastle!
Martin...
Prof Martin White,
Director, Centre for Translational Research in Public Health,
Institute of Health & Society,
Newcastle University.
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