Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast
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GCPH seminar series 3: - Aftab Omer - 'Belonging to One Another: Principles and Practices for Engaging the Other'
April 24, 2007 23:00 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBIn a city which prides itself on friendliness and yet has inequalities in health which persist despite our best attempts to tackle them, questions about our relationships to others are of key significance. This issue of otherness is ancient and contemporary, local as well as global, and of significance both in everyday life and periods of cultural crisis. In this lecture, Aftab Omer will consider how to develop core principles and practices that are responsive to the challenges of otherne...
GCPH seminar series 3: - Rajiv Kumar - 'Towards Ethical Economics: An Initial Exploration'
April 02, 2007 23:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBIt seems we are in trouble. Two recent reports – the Stern Report on the economic impact of climate change for the UK Treasury and that of International Panel on Climate Change – suggest that human activity has serious environmental consequences, such as global warming. The almost insatiable demands on natural resources by giant emerging economies like China and India are new as is that in East Europe. Yet more than two billion people still live in abject poverty in Sub-Saharan Afr...
GCPH seminar series 3: - Prof David Hunter - 'The Crisis of Confidence in Public Health Policy and Practice: the Search for a New Paradigm'
February 11, 2007 23:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBPublic health is facing a cruel paradox. On the one hand, concern about the public's health has never been higher and issues like obesity, alcohol misuse, growing inequalities in health, and environmental degradation compete for attention on the policy agenda. On the other hand, there is widespread dismay over the means available to address these complex public health challenges. Either they seem inadequate for the task or they are poorly implemented. Whether it is the workforce charged w...
GCPH seminar series 3: - Prof Bruce McEwen - 'Of Molecules and Mind: Stress, the Individual and the Social Environment'
January 22, 2007 23:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBStress is a condition of the mind that differs among individuals and reflects not only major life events but also the conflicts and pressures of daily life that elevate physiological systems so as to cause a chronic stress burden. This burden reflects not only the impact of life experiences but also of genetic load and early life experiences that set life-long patterns of behaviours and physiological reactivity. While hormones associated with the chronic stress burden protect the body ...
GCPH seminar series 3: - Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam - 'Creative Communities: Design, Technology and Wellbeing'
December 12, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBIn this lecture Professor McAra-McWilliam explored the application of creativity and imagination in addressing complex challenges in a world that is perceived to be increasingly uncertain and undergoing rapid change. Using her own work on the Creative Imagination, she argued that design processes can generate alternative directions and visions, based on the values which we want to support in our societies. These can therefore work as ‘antidotes’ and alternatives within the discourse of glob...
GCPH seminar series 3: - Jerry Sternin - 'Social Change from the Inside Out'
November 07, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBJerry Sternin argued that traditional expert-driven models for individual, social and organisational change often don’t work. The Positive Deviance approach builds on successful but ‘deviant’ (different) practices and strategies that are identified from within the community or institution. Positive Deviance is based on the belief that in every community, organisation, business or group, there are individuals or entities whose uncommon, but demonstrably successful behaviours or strategies en...
GCPH seminar series 2: - Prof AC Grayling - 'Civic Humanism and Conversation about the Good Life'
May 22, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIn aiming to promote conversation within a community about how life practices can be changed for the better health and flourishing of its individual members, a crucial question is how that conversation is initiated, and by whom. A rich source of ideas is provided by looking at examples of thinking about 'promoting the good life' in the Western tradition, especially in Renaissance humanism and the eighteenth century debate about the role of the arts. This lecture will focus on these deb...
GCPH seminar series 2: - Dr Howard Frumkin - 'Urban Vision and Public Health: Designing and Building Wholesome Places'
April 19, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 30 MBThis lecture examined the effects of urban design on health, placing it in the larger context of planning and public health, and proposed solutions that combine public health and urban planning strategies relevant for the 21st century. Dr Frumkin spoke of public health lying at the heart of urban planning in the early 20th century, but since then, the growth of cities has occurred in relatively unplanned ways. Urban sprawl — the expansion of cities into rural areas, heavy reliance on autom...
GCPH seminar series 2: - Dr Ilona Kickbusch - 'The Global Health Challenge: Why We Need Good Governance for Health'
February 13, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBFrom a starting point that emphasised the changing nature of the world and the globalisation of everyday life, this lecture demonstrated the many ways in which globalisation impacts on health, and health impacts on globalisation. Dr Kickbusch explored the implications of 'good global governance for health', and the possibility of achieving a global healthy treaty.
GCPH seminar series 2: - Prof Jenny Popay - 'Where's the Evidence: The Contribution of Lay Knowledge to Reducing Health Inequalities'
January 16, 2006 23:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBThis lecture presented the case for lay knowledge and theories to be taken more seriously. Professor Popay argued that lay knowledge is sophisticated, helps to answer questions about meaning and experience, and should be treated as an 'equal but different' voice in informing decision-making about policy and practice.
GCPH seminar series 2: - Prof Tom Devine - 'The Transformation of Scotland, 1980-2005'
December 04, 2005 23:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBIn this lecture, Prof Devine argued that over the past twenty five years Scotland has undergone a remarkable series of changes in economy, society and culture. While they are similar in scope and scale to those of the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, they have largely been unnoticed or ignored. Prof Devine asked the questions 'how did we arrive here?' and 'how does this view sit with the more usual view of Scotland as a downtrodden underperforming underdog?'.
GCPH seminar series 2: - Prof Andrew Steptoe - 'How Stress Gets Under Your Skin: Psychobiological Studies of Social Status, Stress and Health'
October 24, 2005 23:00 - 1 hour - 74 MBThis lecture (the first in the second seminar series) explored the relationships between psychology, biology, physiology and socio-economic status. Prof Steptoe shared many interesting insights concerning health and health inequality, developed by the emerging field of psychobiology.
GCPH Seminar Series - Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 1: Part 2
June 14, 2005 23:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThe first meeting of Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum took place on 15 June 2005 in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. The Forum was a half-day, round table event consisting of short inputs influenced by ideas emerging from the Centre's first year of work. Presentations were interspersed with discussion amongst the 160 participants, focusing on the usefulness of the ideas to practice. Part 2: Harry Burns, Andrew Lyon and Carol Tannahill.
GCPH Seminar Series - Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 1: Part 1
June 14, 2005 23:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThe first meeting of Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum took place on 15 June 2005 in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. The Forum was a half-day, round table event consisting of short inputs influenced by ideas emerging from the Centre's first year of work. Presentations were interspersed with discussion amongst the 160 participants, focusing on the usefulness of the ideas to practice. Part 1: Carol Tannahill, Sir John Arbuthnott, Phil Hanlon and Valerie Millar.
GCPH Seminar Series - Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 1: Part 3
June 14, 2005 23:00 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBThe first meeting of Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum took place on 15 June 2005 in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. The Forum was a half-day, round table event consisting of short inputs influenced by ideas emerging from the Centre's first year of work. Presentations were interspersed with discussion amongst the 160 participants, focusing on the usefulness of the ideas to practice. Part 3: Jim McCormick.
GCPH seminar series 1: - Maureen O'Hara PhD - 'Minding the Future'
May 16, 2005 23:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBOurs is an age of complexity, uncertainty and rapid change. Our response to these conditions has also made ours an age of anxiety, the effects of which are to be found everywhere - deteriorating mental health, increasing crime, a global environment under strain, the persistence and deepening of unequal patterns of distribution in income, wealth and well-being. In this lecture Maureen O'Hara presented a fresh look at these challenges and suggested that, if we can come to understand them...
GCPH seminar series 1: - Prof Lord Richard Layard - 'Happiness'
April 04, 2005 23:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBProf Layard believes that the happiness of society does not necessarily equate to its income. Most people want more income, yet, as societies become richer, they do not become happier. Evidence from a range of sources shows that, on average, people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. In fact, many countries have more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United S...
GCPH seminar series 1: - Sholom Glouberman PhD - 'Changing Ideas; Changing Health'
February 23, 2005 23:00 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBCentral to this lecture was the premise that there is a strong connection between science and culture: how people think about the world is closely related to how they value and think about other things as well. Glouberman focused on changing perceptions of order and disorder, the environment and identity through the ages. The implications of the interaction between these three 'big ideas' and our view of health were explored.
GCPH seminar series 1: - Prof AC Grayling - 'Imagine the Perfect Polis: Creating Health in the City'
November 24, 2004 23:00 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBThe opening lecture of the seminar series, given by Prof Anthony Grayling, looked at the history of the city and what it can teach us about the search for the good life. Central to this was consideration of what a 'community setting' should best be like to ensure that individual flourishing and wellbeing happens.