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14-10-2010, 12:01
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Closing the health gap in Sheffield
7pm Thursday 21st October at Sheffield Cathedral
Chaired by the Sheffield Equality Group, this meeting will discuss closing the health gap in Sheffield with two leading writers on health in the City: Dr Jeremy Wight, Director of Public Health in Sheffield; and, Danny Dorling, professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.
While investment in public health has improved overall health, it has not reduced the health gap between better off areas and poorer ones. A key question for speakers will be around what policy or policies will act best to close the health gap when so many have apparently failed. The meeting will encourage discussion and questions from the audience.
Jeremy Wight has worked in the NHS in Sheffield and Yorkshire since 1985, initially in hospital medicine including kidney disease, and since 1992 in public health. In 2006 he was appointed Director of Public Health for the (newly formed) Sheffield PCT, jointly appointed with the City Council. Jeremy is also an honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at ScHARR, University of Sheffield. He is responsible for leading on public health in the city, where health inequality is an "overriding public health concern", and a key focus of the strategic plans on public health in the city.
Danny Dorling has been a professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield since 2003 and is a leading writer and speaker on social structures and inequalities. "Politicians usually say they want a fairer society. They may mean it. Only by looking at what has happened during their time in power can we tell if they have achieved it. Few argue that a fairer society should see inequalities in health rising. In this talk I'll look at what the last government achieved in terms of health inequalities and what the preferences of the current government appear to be".
Admission free, donations welcome
For more details, please see http://wp.me/p124sa-2B
or phone 07956 384142
Closing the health gap in Sheffield
7pm Thursday 21st October at Sheffield Cathedral
Chaired by the Sheffield Equality Group, this meeting will discuss closing the health gap in Sheffield with two leading writers on health in the City: Dr Jeremy Wight, Director of Public Health in Sheffield; and, Danny Dorling, professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.
While investment in public health has improved overall health, it has not reduced the health gap between better off areas and poorer ones. A key question for speakers will be around what policy or policies will act best to close the health gap when so many have apparently failed. The meeting will encourage discussion and questions from the audience.
Jeremy Wight has worked in the NHS in Sheffield and Yorkshire since 1985, initially in hospital medicine including kidney disease, and since 1992 in public health. In 2006 he was appointed Director of Public Health for the (newly formed) Sheffield PCT, jointly appointed with the City Council. Jeremy is also an honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at ScHARR, University of Sheffield. He is responsible for leading on public health in the city, where health inequality is an "overriding public health concern", and a key focus of the strategic plans on public health in the city.
Danny Dorling has been a professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield since 2003 and is a leading writer and speaker on social structures and inequalities. "Politicians usually say they want a fairer society. They may mean it. Only by looking at what has happened during their time in power can we tell if they have achieved it. Few argue that a fairer society should see inequalities in health rising. In this talk I'll look at what the last government achieved in terms of health inequalities and what the preferences of the current government appear to be".
Admission free, donations welcome
For more details, please see http://wp.me/p124sa-2B
or phone 07956 384142