LSE Health and Social Care LUNCH SEMINAR - A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Time: 13.00 – 14.30
Venue: CLM.1.03, Clement House (lunch available)
Titus Galama - Rand Corporation, Santa Monica (California, USA)
Summary: Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that incorporates multiple mechanisms explaining (jointly) a large part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES.
The full paper can be found at:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR773.pdf|
LSEHSC Internal Seminar: "Welfare Effects of Choice in the German Long-term Care System: Equity and the role of family relations"
Speaker: Valentina Zigante
Date: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Time: 12:30
Venue: TBC
More details to follow soon
LSEHSC Internal Seminar - Research Impact: Knowledge Exchange at LSE and REF Impact
Date: Wednesday 22nd February
Time: 12:30 - 13:30
Venue: TBC
More details to follow soon.
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Date: Wednesday 29th February
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speakers: Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson
Chair: Tim Joss
This session explores the substantial role that arts can play in improving health and wellbeing. A number of studies have demonstrated the positive benefits from, for example, reading for people with dementia. Speakers within this session have been working to demonstrate the benefits of arts on health and to develop integral services within health and social care practices. This session will discuss the healing power of literature and hear what is cutting edge today.
This event is free to attend but a ticket is required. For more information, please see the LSE Public Events page|.
SSCR Workshop on Research Ethics for Adult Social Care
Date: 9 March 2012
Time: 10:30 - 15:00
Venue: TBA, Central London
This workshop aims to provide an overview on research ethics in adult social care that encourages a reflexive approach to ethics throughout the timeline of a research study.
Further details will be available shortly.
This event is free to attend, however, registration is required by sending a registration request to sscr@lse.ac.uk|
19-20 March 2012, London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE is holding a special conference to celebrate its five health MSc programmes. The conference will bring together alumni, policymakers, practitioners, students and academics to debate key global health policy issues.
Draft programme
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QORU Seminar: How Can We Make The Best Use Of Information On Outcomes?
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Date: 2nd April 2012, 1pm - 4:30pm
Location: London School of Economics
Speakers: Professor Angela Coulter (University of Oxford), Professor Crispin Jenkinson (University of Oxford), Professor Julien Forder (LSE/University of Kent), Juliette Malley (LSE/University of Kent)
Health and social care policy currently puts considerable emphasis on 'outcomes'. The new outcomes frameworks for health and social care have at their core patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) and measures of social care-related quality of life. But to what extent do these measures really reflect 'outcomes' for people with long-term conditions? How can we make best use of these outcome indicators? What other information do we need to interpret them?
The Department of Health funded policy Research Unit in Quality and Outcomes of person-centred care (QORU) is holding a seminar on 2 April 2012 at LSE to discuss these issues.
The aim of the seminar will bring together interested parties to discuss how we can improve the quality of services through use of 'outcome' data that is increasingly becoming available, but has yet to be integrated into health and social care.
Confirmed speakers include Professor Angela Coulter (QORU, University of Oxford) on 'PROMS for patients – the neglected user', Professor Crispin Jenkinson (QORU, Oxford University) on using measures of outcomes for carers, and Professor Julien Forder (QORU, University of Kent and LSE) and Juliette Malley (University of Kent and LSE) on the use and interpretation of ASCOT outcome measure.
Please contact Esther Sidley at pssru@lse.ac.uk| or on 020 7955 6529 to receive further information and to book your place at the event. Please note there are a limited number of places therefore pre-booking is essential.
SSCR Annual Meeting, 14th May 2012
The School's annual meeting will take place on 14th May 2012 at LSE, providing an opportunity for those interested in adult social care practice research to learn more about SSCR, its research and wider activities.
***Please note the date has changed***
For further information and to register for the meeting please visit LSE's eShop|.