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SUMMARY:Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local - Professor Adrian 
 Davis
DTSTART:20140530T120000Z
DTEND:20140530T130000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:The Global Burden of Disease studies show the importance of un
 derstanding the population approach to health over the lifecourse. It dist
 inguishes between things that kill us and those that ail us and importantl
 y the trends in these over time. It then tries to partition risk across di
 fferent sorts of factors so that policy decisions can be made about how to
  reduce the impact of amenable risks. The major role of the Population Hea
 lth approach in determining and maintaining the good health and wellbeing 
 of the population is slowly gaining recognition by policy makers nationall
 y and how this approach can be developed locally needs to be discussed. Fo
 r instance\, over the last 25 years there has been a steady decline in pre
 mature mortality in most countries and an increase in life expectancy. How
 ever in many countries\, eg in the UK the burden of disease has shifted fr
 om mortality to morbidity\, with the inevitable costs in managing many mor
 e people with morbidity and increasingly multi - morbidity.   What do we n
 eed to do in terms of creating the best strategy for research\, translatio
 n and implementation to inform policy makers\, clinicians and populations 
 about the crucial role of preventing or ameliorating these long term condi
 tions in creating added healthy years to life? Perhaps\, we could look at 
 the success of antenatal and newborn screening\, how it creates the first 
 and best chance to promote population health across the life-course and le
 arn from that about how we can personalise the message and support for tho
 se whose need is greatest. A global problem needs a personalised local sol
 ution. How do we create those solutions?\n
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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