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.