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Housing, Neighbourhoods and Health: Poverty Traps or Trampolines?
7 p.m. Wednesday March 10, 2010
It is well known that poverty is not good for health. But research evidence shows clearly that the effects of poverty on health affects nearly everyone in our society – at every point on the social ladder, the greater your income the better your health.
What can explain this? Why is more money associated with better health, even above subsistence levels? Some research suggests that it is better housing and neighbourhoods that can explain these inequalities, and in addition, that improvements in housing and neighbourhoods may improve health outcomes even without changing people’s income levels.
Please join Jim Dunn for an engaging and informative talk that will answer these and other questions about housing, neighbourhoods and health. He will also share his own research and describe what's known about housing and neighborhoods and how they can provide a pathway out of poverty and to better health.
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture begins at 7 p.m.
Hamilton Specator Auditorium
To reserve your seat:
e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca
Or by phone 905-525-9140, extension 24934
Click here for directions to The Hamilton Spectator |
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ABOUT THE LECTURER
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Jim Dunn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. Jim also holds a Chair in Applied Public Health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada on ‘Interventions in Residential Neighbourhoods and Population Health’.
He is also Fellow of the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health and has been a scientific advisor to a number of policy-related bodies, including the Privy Council Office of Canada, Health Canada, the National Housing Research Committee of Canada and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. His research program focuses on questions regarding the social determinants of health and the influence of economic and social policies and programs on inequalities in health and child development, with a focus on urban housing and neighbourhoods.
Read Jim Dunn's Spectator Interview with Rachel De Lazzer. |
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