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* Please bring this invite with you * Please note the venue details * Please forward details of this seminar to colleagues if appropriate UCL International Institute for Society and Health 2008 / 2009 Public Seminar Series You are invited to attend on: Tuesday 12 May, 5pm (followed by drinks at 6pm) Topic: Health inequalites. Their reproduction across generations Speaker: Professor Denny Vågerö, Stockholm University Abstract: Modern societies have seen falling mortality rates, changing disease panoramas and a virtual eradication of poverty in an absolute sense. In spite of these developments, health inequalites arise de novo in each new generation. This is true in Sweden in spite of its egalitarian policies and policies for universal social protection. What are some of the mechanisms by which health inequalities are reproduced across generations? This question is discussed and new evidence from Swedish multigenerational data is presented. Denny Vågerö is a professor of medical sociology. He has worked on health inequalities at Stockholm University, The Karolinska Institutet, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He was one of the founders of CHESS, Centre for Health Equity Studies and its director 2000-2008. He was a member of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and its standing Committee on Health. Venue: UCL Torrington Basement LT, 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB. Nearest Underground station: Goodge Street. Warren St and Goodge St are also within walking distance. Email: [log in to unmask] Refreshments at 6.00pm after the seminar. You may access audio recordings of our some past seminars at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm