Please could i reserve two seats for the above seminar, one for
myself and one for Professor Tim Newton

Many thanks

Kelly Sisson

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:59:54 -0000 Patricia Crowley
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> 2005 Public Seminar Series
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> Monday 7 March 2005, 5pm followed by drinks at 6pm
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> Richard Wilkinson,
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> Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School,
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> Associate Director ICHS, UCL
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> 'The Impact of Inequality'
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> Abstract
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> This lecture will summarise and update a theory - developed over a number of years and now set out in The Impact of Inequality (see below for details) - of how inequality affects population health. At its centre is the psychosocial impact of social stratification on the quality of social relations and the sensitivity of health to the social environment.
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> A recent review of the literature on income inequality and population health covered 151 published analyses. After whatever control variables authors thought relevant had been included in their models, 120 of these reported statistically significant tendencies for health to be better in more equal places. Only eight found any health outcome measure with statistically significant relationships the other way round. Before the inclusion of control variables an even higher proportion found greater equality was associated with better health.
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> What are the processes linking inequality to individual health? At one end are the socially corrosive effects of inequality: more unequal societies have more violence, lower levels of involvement in community life, lower levels of trust and more downward discrimination. Statistically, measures of the social environment mediate the relationship between inequality and health. At the other - individual - end, is the sensitivity of health to the social environment.
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> Greater inequality seems to shift the balance from mutually supportive relations to the more stressful relationships of social dominance and class differentiation - with their powerful (but opposite) implications for health. Whether we are Hobbesian rivals in the competition "of each against all" or each other's best sources of assistance and cooperation has always been crucial to wellbeing and lies at the root of human sociality.
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> Richard Wilkinson is Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, and visiting professor and Associate Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. He is the author of Unhealthy Societies, Mind the Gap, and Poverty and Progress.
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> NEW BOOK
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> The Impact of Inequality by Richard Wilkinson
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> New Press, N.Y. January 2005 - ISBN 1-56584-925-6
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> Routledge, London.
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> "Richard Wilkinson's pathbreaking work challenged everyone interested in socioeconomic conditions and health to rethink in a most constructive way. This new book, a wonderful work of synthesis, brings insight into how conditions of society impact on people's daily lives to cause health and disease. Emphasizing the links between equality, cooperation, and personal control, he shows how conditions of society have profound biological effects. It is a stimulating and exciting book."
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> -Sir Michael Marmot, author of The Status Syndrome
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> "Wilkinson's work is a powerful and provocative piece of scholarship. The Impact of Inequality presents a challenge to us all to improve population health by tackling economic and social inequalities."
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> -Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
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> "In the affluent world, countless millions of people are obsessed with what they can do to be healthy. Richard Wilkinson is rightly obsessed with what nations, communities and employers can do to create a healthy social environment. In this brave and well-reasoned book, he combs through the health evidence for clues to the kinds of economic structures and human relationships that are best for us in every sense."
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> -Jim Lardner, director and founder of Inequality.org
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> http://www.thenewpress.com/newbooks/inequality.htm
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