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SUMMARY:What can history tell us about current health inequalities? - Spea
 ker: Simon Szreter\, Professor of History and Public Policy\, Faculty of H
 istory\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20150604T170000Z
DTEND:20150604T180000Z
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CONTACT:Saphsa Codling
DESCRIPTION:This year's Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual L
 ecture (organised in collaboration with the Centre for Science and Policy)
 will be delivered by Professor Simon Szreter\, Professor of History and Pu
 blic Policy\, Faculty of History\, University of Cambridge.\n\nThis lectur
 e will argue that history shows how the nature and scale of health inequal
 ities within a society are produced by the social and cultural environment
  of values and incentives experienced by the rich\, as much as by the poor
 \, who are the usual focus of attention. This environment can be and has b
 een modified dramatically several times by the forces of ideology and poli
 tics during the last half millennium of British history. It therefore foll
 ows that our current trend of widening inequalities can be modified once a
 gain – by focusing on the values and incentives of the rich.\n\nProfesso
 r Szreter's research focuses on History and Public Policy\, especially in 
 relation to comparative demographic\, social and economic change.\n\nAbout
  the BHRU: The Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU)\, is based in the
  Department of Public Health and Primary Care within the School of Clinica
 l Medicine at the University of Cambridge. The Unit is funded as part of t
 he Department of Health Policy Research Programme as the Policy Research U
 nit in Behaviour and Health.\nThe aim of the BHRU is to contribute evidenc
 e to national and international efforts to achieve sustained behaviour cha
 nge that improves health outcomes and reduces health inequalities.\n\nThe 
 BHRU uses a range of research methods\, including evidence synthesis and p
 rimary research\, the latter involving both laboratory and field experimen
 ts\, as well as qualitative studies.\n\nFor further details of the talk an
 d to register click "here":http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/bhru-annual-le
 cture-2015/signup/.\n
LOCATION:The Howard Theatre\, Lecture Theatre\, Downing College
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