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We invite you to our February 9th City, University of London, Disability and Social Inclusion seminar: The Costs of Traumatic Brain Injury
Speaker: Michael Parsonage, Chief Economist and Senior Policy Advisor, Centre for Mental Health
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is any injury to the brain caused by impact and is the leading cause of death and disability among people aged 1-40 in the UK. Non-fatal consequences may include a wide range of physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural effects, often of long duration and leading on to high unemployment, financial difficulties and loss of independence. People with a history of TBI are over-represented in a number of disadvantaged groups, including homeless people and those in the criminal justice system, and there are also strong associations between TBI and mental health problems including substance misuse. A&E departments see nearly a million head injury presentations a year and inpatient admissions are currently running at around 160,000 a year, having risen by more than a third since 2000. It is estimated that there are up to 1.3 million people in the UK living with a TBI-related disability. The presentation will provide further analysis of the scale and consequences of TBI, including from an economic perspective.
Full details at: http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/february/the-costs-of-traumatic-brain-injuryDoria Pilling
Please book a place by contacting: [log in to unmask]
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Division of Health Services Research and Management
School of Health Sciences
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB
020 8992 4302
0793 999 5357
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