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Latest event: What keeps the UK healthy? Geographical perspectives on work and worklessness
- Tuesday 6 November 2012 from 9.30am – 4.30pm
- Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
About this event
How is the health and well-being of the UK’s population affected by the economic downturn, and what are the challenges posed by long-term worklessness?
Organised jointly with the Geography of Health Research Group (GHRG) the seminar considered what impacts the economic downturn is having upon individual's and local communities' health - both physical and mental - and what challenges long-term worklessness poses. It examined how these vary across the UK: how geography matters, as well as examining case-studies across the country seeking to address these challenges.
Copies of presentations are available to download:
Speakers:
- Professor Clare Bambra, Director of the Wolfson Research Institute in the Department of Geography, Durham University Presentation (PDF). See also an online presentation made by Professor Bambra on this topic at Durham University in 2011
- Dr Jonathan Campion, Director for Public Mental Health and Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Presentation (PDF)
- Professor Sarah Curtis, Executive Director Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University Presentation (PDF)
- Phil Knibb, Executive Director, Communiversity, Alt Valley Community Trust, Liverpool Presentation (PDF)
- Neil McInroy, CEO, Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) Presentation (PDF) and addtional paper referred to in the presentation: CLES Health and Worklessness Report (PDF). Further reports for HM Partnerships referred to in the presentation were the Healh Trainers and Worklessness Making the Links Pilots 2010-11 Interim (2011) (External PDF) and Final (2012) (External PDF) reports
- Dr Frank Popham, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow (Panel discussant - no presentation available)
- Dr Nicola Shelton, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (Chair - no presentation available)
- Dr Jason Strelitz, Speciality Registrar in Public Health based at the Royal Free Hospital London Foundation Trust Presentation (PDF)
- Marc Suhrcke, Professor in Public Health Economics, University of East Anglia (Presentation coming soon)
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