2012
April
QORU Seminar: How Can We Make The Best Use Of Information On Outcomes?
Date: 2nd April 2012, 1pm - 4:30pm
Venue: 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)
Abstract
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) held a seminar on 2 April 2012 at LSE to discuss these issues. The aim of the seminar was to 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.
2nd April 2012, 1pm - 4:30pm 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) held a seminar on 2 April 2012 at LSE to discuss these issues. The aim of the seminar was to 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.
March
"Evidence on the long shadow of poor mental health across three generations"
Date: Wednesday 21st March, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker: Professor Michael Shields, Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne
Abstract
Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in families could therefore help explain the widely discussed intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using data from three generations contained in the 1970 British Cohort Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their grandchildren. We find that the intergenerational correlation in mental health is about 0.2, and that the probability of feeling depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and grandchild mental health are strongly correlated, but this relationship appears to work fully through the mental health of the parent. Using grandmother mental health as an instrument for maternal mental health in a model of grandchild mental health confirms the strong intergenerational correlation. We also find that maternal and own mental health are strong predictors of adulthood socioeconomic outcomes. Even after controlling for parental socioeconomic status, own educational attainment, and own mental health (captured in childhood and adulthood), our results suggest that a one standard deviation reduction in maternal mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent.
W ednesday 21st March, 12:30 - 13:45 Professor Michael Shields, Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in families could therefore help explain the widely discussed intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using data from three generations contained in the 1970 British Cohort Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their grandchildren. We find that the intergenerational correlation in mental health is about 0.2, and that the probability of feeling depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and grandchild mental health are strongly correlated, but this relationship appears to work fully through the mental health of the parent. Using grandmother mental health as an instrument for maternal mental health in a model of grandchild mental health confirms the strong intergenerational correlation. We also find that maternal and own mental health are strong predictors of adulthood socioeconomic outcomes. Even after controlling for parental socioeconomic status, own educational attainment, and own mental health (captured in childhood and adulthood), our results suggest that a one standard deviation reduction in maternal mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent.
SSCR Workshop on Research Ethics for Adult Social Care
Date: 9th March 2012 Time: 10:30 - 15:00
Venue: Guy's Campus, King's College London
This workshop aimd 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.
February
Seminar LSE Literary Festival: The Medicine Chest of the Soul: Arts and Health|
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 explored 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 discussed the healing power of literature and hear what is cutting edge today.
W ednesday 29th February Time: 16:30 - 18:00 Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson Tim Joss This session explored 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 discussed the healing power of literature and hear what is cutting edge today.
The Birthplace Cohort Study
Date: 15th February 2012, 12.30-13.45
Speaker: Professor Peter Brocklehurst (Professor of Women's Health and Director of the Institute for Women's Health, UCL)
Abstract
The Birthplace cohort study compared the safety of births planned in four settings: home, freestanding midwifery units (FMUs), alongside midwifery units (AMUs) and obstetric units (OUs). The main findings relate to healthy women with straightforward pregnancies who meet the NICE intrapartum care guideline criteria for a 'low risk' birth.
LSE Health and Social Care Lunch Seminar - A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012, 13.00-14.30
Speaker: Dr 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:
January
Seminar on long-term care for older people and EU Law: the position in England and Scotland,
Date: Wed 25 Jan 2012
Date: Wed 25 Jan 2012
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