Introduction
The Seminar on Health Inequalities, which took place on May 7 2009 at LSE. was organised by the London School of Economics and Political Science in cooperation with the European Commission DG Employment and Social Affairs.
As stated by Sarah Worthington in her welcome address, the London School of Economics is in a particularly favourable position to host a seminar on health inequalities. LSE has a long history of producing innovative research in this area, from the 1960s with Peter Townsend and 1970s with Julian Le Grand, both senior experts in the social policy community who were able to attend this seminar in 2009. This history of research and policy analysis continues to this day with a new generation of academics who are motivated by similar goals: to improve our understanding of the extent of the problem of health inequalities and to find realistic policy solutions.
In the sections below, the seminar programme and conference report together with video and MP3 podcasts are available.
Conference programme and report
- a one day seminar on May 7th 2009 (programme|)
- the key messages contained in the seminar summary report| are two-fold: those addressing challenges in measurement of health inequalities and those addressing policies to reduce health inequalities
Conference Audio and Video sessions
The following sessions that were recorded during the seminar are available in audio and video format (to download the MP3 audio file to your computer right click on the MP3 link and select 'save target as' or 'save link as'):
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Session I: Methodological Issues in health inequalities measurement Presentations by Dr Cristina Masseria, Prof Martin Bobak, Dr Owen O’Donnell, Dr Sara Allin.
Available as MP3. Video below.
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Session IIa: Policy Interventions for reducing health inequalities: Policy interventions, reducing inequalities and change in individuals Presentations by Prof Martin McKee, Prof Olle Lundberg, Prof Julian Le Grand.
Available as MP3. Video below.
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Session IIb: Policy interventions for reducing health inequalities: regional and country case studies Presentations by Dr Peter Makara, Mr Tom Hennell, Dr Mariel Droomers.
Available as MP3. Video below.
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Session IIb (continued) + summary and overview discussion Presentation by Mme Dominique Polton; Summary and overview discussion.
Available as MP3. Video including summary and overview discussion below.