http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe

The Society for Social Medicine and the Cardiff Institute of Society,
Health & Ethics
Joint one-day meeting
THURSDAY 21ST APRIL 2005

Dahlgren and Whitehead and beyond:
The social determinants of health in research, policy and service delivery

Conference organizers: Eva Elliott, Laurence Moore, Gareth Williams, Sheila
Foley (administrator)

Over the last 15 years Dahlgren and Whitehead's diagram representing the
main determinants of health has become emblematic of a more holistic
approach to understanding health inequalities.  The diagram takes as
axiomatic the real power of large-scale economic and social forces to
damage health and limit behavioural change; but it also invites
consideration of the different levels of practice and policy at which those
forces could be blocked, modified or transformed.  In the subsequent
period, research on social determinants has developed in different
directions, and an understanding of how these determinants operate alone
and in combination is still hotly contested.  Nonetheless, in many
countries, including the UK (though by no means equally in its constituent
parts), the dominant policy motif remains one of 'choosing health', often
to the neglect of wider social and economic factors.

This conference provides an opportunity to:
· reflect on the Dahlgren and Whitehead 'rainbow'
· review current knowledge on the social determinants of health
· consider what more we need to know
· discuss what should be done in relation to the development of research,
policy and service delivery.

For further details please email [log in to unmask] or telephone  029 20
879609.
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
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THURSDAY 21ST APRIL 2005

DAHLGREN AND WHITEHEAD AND BEYOND
The Social Determinants of Health in Research, Policy and Service Delivery

Programme for the day

9.30-10.00: Coffee and Registration

10.00:      Welcome
Professor Huw Beynon (Director, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff
University)
10.05:      Setting the scene
Professor Laurence Moore (Director, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health
and Ethics)

Morning Sessions: Understanding the social determinants of health
Chair - Laurence Moore

Looking back

10.15-10.30:       Reflections on a rainbow - Professor Margaret Whitehead
(University of Liverpool)

Moving forward

10.30-11.00:      Social class, the life course and health - Professor Mel
Bartley (University College, London)

11.00-11.30:      Break and Refreshments

11.30-12.00:      People, places and health - Professor Sarah Curtis (Queen
Mary College, London)

12.00-12.30:      Exploring the gap between knowledge and action in the
social determinants of health - Professor Dennis
            Raphael (York University, Toronto)

12.30-12.45:      A response from Margaret Whitehead

12.45-1.30  Food and conversation

Afternoon sessions: workshops and panel discussion - What are the problems?
What is to be done?  What works?

1.30-3.00   Workshops
Three parallel workshops will address the implications of the morning's
presentations for three areas: research, policy, and service delivery and
organization.  These will be introduced and facilitated by leading experts
in the field. Refreshments will be made available during the workshops

1. Research - Professor Jennie Popay (University of Lancaster)
2. Policy - Professor Mike Kelly (Health Development Agency, London)
3. Service Delivery and Organization - Professor Morton Warner (University
of Glamorgan)

3.00-3.45:  Panel Discussion
Chaired and introduced by Dr Toba Bryant, York University, Toronto
Panel:      Margaret Whitehead, Mel Bartley, Sarah Curtis, Dennis Raphael,
Jennie Popay, Mike Kelly, Morton Warner

3.45-4.00:  Close and next steps - Professor Gareth Williams (Cardiff
University)
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