International Institute for Society and Health

2006 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES

You are invited to attend

Tuesday 11^th July 5.00 pm

Professor Johannes Siegrist

Director, Department of Medical Sociology at the University of Dusseldorf,

Professor Diana Kuh

MRC National Survey, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Professor Andrew Steptoe

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

‘Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications’

Social inequalities in health are persisting, or even growing, in modern societies despite progress in medical science and an increase in health care spending. In this seminar Johannes Siegrist will briefly discuss the significance of a five-year European Science Foundation Programme within the current context of European health policy. Diana Kuh will illustrate the importance of early life in explaining social inequalities in adult health and Andrew Steptoe will demonstrate psychobiological mechanisms linking stressful experience at work with physical disease

This seminar will be chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot

This seminar will be held at UCL RSVP seminar attendance by 07/07/06 (indicating any special needs and for directions to the seminar room) Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 7679 8249 Drinks & snacks at 6pm after the seminar.

You may access an audio recording of past seminars at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm

The programme’s main results are summarized in ‘Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications’ Oxford University Press ISBN no. 0-19- 856816-9 and explanations are given within three interrelated frameworks of scientific analysis:

a life course approach that models and tests pathways from pregnancy to adult health
a stress-theoretical approach that explores how an adverse psychosocial environment affects health, with special emphasis on work, coping and psychobiological stress responses
a macro-sociological approach that deals with health effects of aggregate deprivation and its wider socio-political and economic determinants

Copies are available to purchase after the seminar at a discounted price of £26.

Join us for drinks after the seminar and to launch ‘Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications’