Pop Health Forum April 2 Minutes + Blurbs to send to lists for speaker publicity

[Stephen Bezruchka]

Core group meet and the following blurbs are there for people receiving
this message to post to others to publicize coming speakers:
BLURB TO SEND OUT:

Psychiatry and Public Health Grand Rounds Thurs:  April 11, Turner Audito,
Income Inequality and Population Health: Making Sense of the Evidence
Ichiro Kawachirium, D-209
	  Income Inequality and Population Health: Making Sense of the
Evidence
                         Ichiro Kawachi MD, PhD
               Psychiatry  & Public Health Grand Rounds
                Thursday April 11th, noon to 1:30 p.m.
   Turner Auditorium D-209, Health Sciences Center (see below for map)

 The other Ichiro is coming out of the dugout to Seattle to talk
about the health and hierarchy relationship. One of the world's leaders in
researching this relationship (on US data), Ichiro Kawachi is
Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of
Public Health. Since the elite found out that their elevated incomes are
bad for our health, they have responded critically in academia. Come and
learn about Professor Kawachi's point of view.

He will talk about linkages between individual income, income
distribution and population health so you can critically interpret the
published empirical literature on income inequality and health outcomes.

Co-sponsored by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Map of Health Sciences Center:
 http://depts.washington.edu/hsnews/graphics/map.jpg
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April 11, 3:30 to 5 pm Hierarchy and our Hearts:  The Real Risk Factors,
Dennis Raphael with Ichiro to be present for discussions Public Health
Seattle/King County 40th fl conf rm. 999 3rd Ave
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BLURB TO SEND OUT:
Fremont Community Association Public Meeting Inequality Bad for our Hearts
April 11, 7 pm
On April 11th at 7pm, in the public meeting room of the Freemont Public
Association, Dennis Raphael of the School of Health Policy and Management
at York University will hold a public discussion  to discuss his
controversial report on the relationship between heart disease and income
inequality.

Raphael is the author of Inequality is Bad for our Hearts: Why Low Income
and Social Exclusion are Major Causes of Heart Disease in Canada (posted
on the University of Washington Health Equity Website at
http://depts.washington.edu/eqhlth/paperA15.html ).  The report was
commissioned by the North York Heart Health Network to draw the attention
of politicians, policy makers, health professionals and the public to the
health threats posed by increasing poverty.

According to Raphael, poverty and low incomes are the social factors that
most contribute to heart disease among Canadians.

There is also growing evidence that societies with a large income gap
between the wealthy and the poor produce the conditions that lead to
heart disease. This is a matter of grave public  concern in the United
States as well as Canada, where the income gaps between the rich and poor
continue to widen at a rapid pace.

The event is sponsored by the Population Health Forum, and is free and
open to the public. The Freemont Public Association is located at 1501 N.
45th in Seattle, on the 44 Metro bus line, and very near the 16.

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 April 12:  South Campus Center 348, 10-11:30 screening of the Grat
Leveller, followed by a lunch with Ichiro Kawachi to which everyone is
invited.  Come find out if there is such a thing as a free lunch.
-  Reception with Ichiro at 2:30 to 4:30 in the Crow's Nest

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April 29 Nancy Krieger 4 pm, Kane Hall 220,  "Social inequalities in
health:  an ecosocial perspective.
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MINUTES:  Discussions included
-  recognize we are getting a healthy dose of speakers on social justice
issues this spring, about as good as it gets
-  need to have sign-in sheets at the various sessions so we can recruit
-  trying to get local reporters to cover the events, Bud Nicola will
check out someone at the Times, and Stephen a reporter at the PI
							how to make
inequality an issue for public discussion
-  some felt trying to suggest income redistribution in America was too
difficult, but another perspective was presented that it was already
beingdone, but in the opposite direction
-  considered wage differentials as a focus for discussing it
-  recognized need for qualitative research on how to best present the
ideas
-  generally feeling was that it was critical to involve the community,
the middle class was suffering from the gap
-  some frustration at our group not having a long term goal, although
Stephen enunciated his goal for the group which was to work for all
countries and parts of countries to have small health gaps (everyone be
tied for the health olympics gold medal)
-  talked about doing some local area analysis of income inequality health
data to influence local people
-  recognition that there seemed to be no social ethos of people caring
for each other out there
-  recognized there were business such as Touchstone Bakery where there
employees all had the same salary, and it was noted that MSR had a maximum
5:1 pay gap
-  discussed how Plato said for a democracy to function the largest
tolerable gap in society should be no more than one in four but in the US,
it is probably closer to a trillion (thousand billion or million million
to one)
-  interest in doing a documentary story on local business embracing
economic justice ideals
-  some sent regrets for not coming because of the time conflict, wondered
if 4 pm would be better?

Next meeting Aprl 23, 5 pm H 670