Reducing Health Inequities: Successful Strategies?

Reducing Health Inequalities
What Do We Really Know About Successful Strategies?

8–9 May 2009 School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Website: http://www.hertie-school.org/binaries/addon/1085_rhi.pdf

“….socioeconomic status which enhance inequalities in health outcomes are a growing problem. The result is a loss of educational and economic competences in large parts of the population which reduces the economic prosperity of the whole country. Therefore, tackling health inequalities and implementing health equity strategies are the main objectives of public health policy in welfare states around the globe.

The conference will focus on the comparative analysis of public health strategies in different states.

The leading questions are:
- What do we know about the interaction of welfare regimes and health outcomes?
- Do regime types influence the results of health equity strategies?
- Do they have consequences for the overall burden of disease?
- Which strategy is appropriate in order to reduce health inequalities?
- How can the particularly heavy burden of disease faced by families, children, adolescents, the elderly, the migrant population,
and other vulnerable parts of the population in low economic and educational status be reduced?
- What do we really know about successful strategies?

PROGRAM

Friday, 8 May

09.30 h Opening
Michael Zürn, Dean of the Hertie School of Governance
Bertram Häussler, Director of IGES Institute
Frank Lehmann, Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung

10.00 h Plenary Session
Welfare States and Their Public Health Strategies
Klaus Hurrelmann: Why should we tackle health inequalities?
Espen Dahl: Health inequalities related to types of welfare states
Richard Brown: Health inequalities and public health in the USA
Seppo Koskinen: Health inequalities and public health in Finland

14.00 h Workshops
Workshop I:
Public Health Strategies for Families of Low Socioeconomic Status
Petra Kolip: Public health strategies for families
Alexandra Sann: Early prevention: Health care and welfare services
Maya Mulle: Public health strategies for women in Switzerland
Muhamad Zakria Zakar: Public health strategies for families in Pakistan

Workshop II:
Health Inequalities Among Children and Adolescents
Matthias Richter: Health inequalities among children and adolescents
Alessio Zambon: Welfare regimes and health inequalities in adolescence
Patrick West: Equalisation of health in youth
Laura Kestilä: Life-course determinants of health, health behaviour, and
health inequalities in adulthood
Leena Koivusilta: Critical periods in the development of educational
careers: implications for health inequality

Workshop III:
Public Health Strategies for Vulnerable Groups of the Population
Ullrich Bauer: Public health strategies for vulnerable groups
Orna Baron-Epel: Inequalities in health in vulnerable populations in Israel
Nico Dragano: Occupational health of elder workers in Europe
Angie Hart: Resilient therapy: Parent-professional communities
Andreas Mielck: Tackling health care disparities

18.00 h Keynote Lecture
Ilona Kickbusch: The growing burden of disease: Reaching out for a global health diplomacy

Saturday, 9 May
09.30 h Plenary Session
Welfare States and Health Equity Strategies
Clare Bambra: Welfare states and health equity policies
Bertram Häussler: Reducing inequalities in supply with health care services

11.00 h Keynote Lecture
Martin McKee: Reducing health inequalities – What do we really know about successful strategies?

12.00 h Discussion
Starting with invited statements by the plenary speakers
Clare Bambra, Richard Brown, Espen Dahl, Bertram Häussler, Ilona Kickbusch, Seppo Koskinen

13.00 h End of the Conference

Registration
Please send an email with your name, your address, and your professional affiliation to
Prof. Klaus Hurrelmann: hurrelmann@hertie-school.org