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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ninth Annual Public Health Forum: Poverty, Inequality and Health
19-23 April 1999
Speakers include: Amartya Sen (Economic progress and health); Julio
Frenk (Inequalities in health: a global perspective); Hilary Graham
(From science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities);
Richard Jolly (Global inequalities in human welfare: prospects for
the new millennium); Solomon Benatar (The ethical dimension); Richard
Steckel (Industrialization, height and mortality); Davidson Gwatkin
(Poverty & inequalities in health within developing countries); David
Leon (Inequalities in health within and between countries: what is
the link?); Sally MacIntyre (Gender differences, wealth & health);
George Davey Smith (Cancer & cardiovascular disease); Anton Kunst
(Socio-economic inequalities in health within developed countries);
Carl Kendall (Globalization and international differences in health);
Martin McKee (The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet
Union); Denny Vagero (The life-course perspective and its
implications); Claudio Lanata (Communicable Diseases); Anthony Zwi
(Injuries and violence); Vikram Patel (Impoverishment & health in
developing countries); Mushtaque Chowdhury (Impact of development
interventions on health & well-being); Cesar Victora (Reducing health
inequalities: can health interventions make an impact?)
There is also a choice of 3 optional one-day workshops on
Globalization, Economic and Social Change & Health, and Inequalities
in Health in Developing Countries.
Further details from: [log in to unmask] or see our web page
(http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/events/forum/)
Alice Dickens
Administrative Officer (Press and Short Courses), Registry
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Phone: +44 171 299 4654; fax: +44 171 3230638
World-wide web: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk
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