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The Centre's second seminar series began in October 2005 with a lecture from Professor Andrew Steptoe. Outputs from all events in this second series are available for download at the links below. A synthesis of all ideas in the series is also available.
Tuesday 25 October 2005, Professor Andrew Steptoe, British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, University College London: 'How Stress Gets Under Your Skin: psychobiological studies of social status, stress and health'
Key ideas:
- Psychosocial factors such as chronic life stresses, social environments and psychological factors may impact positively or inversely on health.
- Psychobiological processes such as neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, autonomic, immunological and other responses act as pathways through which biological changes occur related to external stresses, behaviours, etc.
- Psychobiological responses to everyday stressors affect health outcomes, with small biological responses to stress having a cumulative impact over the years of a person's life.
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Tuesday 6 December 2005, Professor Tom Devine, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen: 'The Transformation of Scotland: 1980 - 2005'
Key ideas:
- Change over the past twenty five years in Scotland and its roots.
- History - particularly the earlier roots of recent change.
- Economy - especially shifts in employment structure and its consequences.
- Society - especially shifts in social structure over the past twenty five years.
- Scots identity, and the shift from dual to predominantly Scottish identity.
- Public discourse and the absence of comment about recent change in Scotland.
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Tuesday 17 January 2006, Professor Jennie Popay, Institute for Health Research, University of Lancaster: 'Where's the evidence? The contribution of lay knowledge to reducing health inequalities'
Key ideas:
- What is lay knowledge?
- How can it inform action to reduce health inequality?
- Why isn't it taken more seriously?
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Tuesday 14 February 2006, Ilona Kickbusch PhD, Independent Health Consultant, Ilona Kickbusch Consult: 'The Global Health Challenge: Why We Need Good Governance for Health'
Key ideas:
- Health as a public good.
- Global health dynamics.
- Global health governance.
- Unstructured plurality.
- Healthscapes.
- Global domestic politics.
- Global health treaty.
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Thursday 20 April 2006, Howard Frumkin MD, DrPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention: 'Urban vision and public health: designing and building wholesome places'
Key ideas:
- Urban design and planning impacts on health and wellbeing
- Designing urban spaces and communities to improve health and wellbeing
- Sedentary lifestyles, calorific intake, disease and illness
- Land use planning and health
- Traffic, air pollution, climate change and health
- Social processes associated with urban sprawl
- Social capital and urban sprawl
- Smart growth
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Tuesday 23 May 2006, Prof A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London: 'Civic humanism and conversation about the good life'
Key ideas:
- Civic humanism - an attempt to describe governance, human motivation and behaviour without recourse to the divine.
- Civic conversation - a process by which ideas, norms, values and behaviours are developed, recognised and enacted.
- Eudemonia - the outward appearance of living the good life. Described as having made contributions to the common good as well as benefiting from this over the period of one's life.
- Inequality and its effect on participation and how to change this.
- Motivation and how this occurs.
- The Good Life and how to describe it.
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