Training Workshop ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time’
February 27
There is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the past two centuries. It is not yet clear why this is the case. In this one-day training workshop we will be exploring these changing dynamics together with Prof. Sean Clouston, who will also deliver the keynote lecture at this workshop.
The workshop centers on discussing and testing the four-stage model proposed by Clouston et al. (2016). The model’s four stages are:
1). Natural mortality – characterized by little or no population-level understanding of disease risk factors or treatments.
2). Producing inequalities – marked by unequal access to new knowledge, technologies, or treatments;
3). Reducing inequalities – as innovations become more widely accessible;
4). Reduced mortality/disease elimination – where prevention and treatment are effective and broadly distributed.
Following the workshop, a call for special issue ‘Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run’ in Demographic Research is launced.