Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast

Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast

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Glasgow Centre for Population Health Podcast episodes

  • GCPH Seminar Series 6: David Gustave - Code of the street - how we should re-interpret morality

    At the fifth lecture of this Seminar Series, David Gustave, an Educational Motivator from the children's charity 'Kid's Company' delivered a seminar based on both personal biography and professional experience. He spoke about the needs of young people in the UK today, and how their needs can often be wrongly judged. He spoke about how young people seek the same types of fulfilment that many of us do - something that Kid's Company helps them to understand and work towards.

    1 hr 12 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 6: Wayne Elliot - Impact of weather on human health - current and future issues

    The fourth lecture of the sixth Seminar Series was delivered by Wayne Elliot, Head of Health forecasting at the Met Office.

    The presentation given by Wayne was called 'Impact of weather on human health - current and future issues' and was deliverd at the Lighthouse, Glasgow.
    Those who attended this event heard about the work of the Met Office in relation to people's health and the initiatives they run to support the work of the health service and others involved in health protection and improvement.
    The work of the Met Office in relation to their work on climate change was also discussed, this included elements such as:
    * what aspects of the British weather are important
    * what areas of illness/wellbeing are chiefly affected
    * how the health programme operates as a business - the opportunities and challenges this brings
    * future impacts of the climate on health - what we know and what we don't know

    1 hr 23 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 6: Professor Tim Jackson - Prosperity without Growth

    This lecture took place at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

    Economic growth is supposed to deliver rising prosperity: higher incomes
    increasing wellbeing and leading to prosperity for all. But this conventional
    formula is failing. Growth has delivered its benefits, at best unequally.
    Moreover, the ecological and social consequences of unfettered growth are
    devastating. Climate change threatens long-term wellbeing. Resource scarcities
    undermine the basis for future prosperity. Persistent inequalities still divide the world and a growing ‘social recession’ haunts the market economies.
    Development remains essential for poorer countries. But are ever-increasing
    incomes for the ‘already rich’ still a legitimate goal for advanced nations? Or
    should we be aiming for prosperity without growth?
    In this seminar, Tim Jackson, an advisor to the UK Government and author of
    Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Earthscan, 2009), will argue that society faces a profound dilemma: economic growth is unsustainable; but ‘de-growth’ – or economic contraction – is unstable.
    He will show that the prevailing ‘escape route’ from this dilemma – to try and
    ‘decouple’ economic activity from its impact – is not working. How can we
    proceed in a world where global resource consumption is still rising yet meeting climate change targets will require reductions in carbon intensity two orders of magnitude higher than anything achieved historically? In the light of these challenges, Professor Jackson engages in a critical re-examination of the
    economic structure and social logic of consumerism. He will set out a new vision of a shared prosperity: the capability to flourish as human beings – within the ecological limits of a finite planet.

    54 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 5: Dr Harry Burns - From theory to policy - the implications of recent research findings on health inequality

    In this lecture Dr Burns reflects that recent trends show relative improvements in some Scottish health indices compared to other countries. However, health

    inequality remains an obstinate challenge in Scotland, with the greatest
    difficulties found largely in the Clydeside conurbation. The policy implications of this and the findings of recent research on the effects of stress on brain structure are considered.

    57 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 5: - Bert Mulder - 'Taking Care of Yourself Together'

    Recent demographic trends suggest that demands on healthcare will increase to such an extent that no matter how efficient healthcare professionals are, they will never be able to provide enough care in light of the ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic ill-health. This gap between the need for care and the size of the workforce could be bridged by the development of Information Technology (IT). While there are many developments in Scotland (and elsewhere), little work has been undertaken at a national level to develop integrated IT systems for this purpose. Careful and appropriate development will be necessary if such an IT infrastructure is to contribute fully to the future of care, but there is no business case for this and no sense of political urgency to develop such an infrastructure despite the understanding that to reach an effective level in ten years we need to start now.

    58 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 5: -Professor Stuart MacDonald: The Micropolitics of Urban Space

    Talking Cities – The Micropolitics of Urban Space

    From Kevin Macleod to Prince Charles, it seems everyone is talking cities. What
    makes an eco-town or city? What is sustainable design? Architecture and
    happiness? Perhaps more importantly, what does inclusiveness, equality and
    diversity mean in the built environment?
    Place-making, the new term on the block, is generally agreed to be central to
    social inclusion, cultural well-being and identity. But what makes a good space?
    People experience their environment in different ways depending upon their
    social, cultural and economic circumstances. Policies can enable good spaces
    but they can also be exclusive.
    If all citizens are to be comfortable in and identify with the spaces and places they
    inhabit, then the full diversity of this experience has to be considered. It means
    adopting a human-centred design approach.
    In this lecture Stuart MacDonald will look at the effect of an inhospitable built
    environment – the impact of bad design - as a way of looking at inclusion.
    Because the impact of the designed environment upon us huge, he will suggest
    that everyone should be talking cities as a fundamental part of democracy.

    38 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 5: Maureen O'Hara PhD - We've got the future in our hands: Are we up to it?

    We’ve got the future in our hands: Are we up to it?

    There is mounting evidence that the demands of everyday life in these complex
    and uncertain times is presenting humanity with both a threat to survival and also
    an opportunity for evolutionary transformation.
    Is humanity being pushed beyond our limits to cope or are we instead on the cusp
    of a breakthrough in consciousness on a global scale?
    Is the rising tide of mental anguish—anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction and
    violence – a sign that we are being overtaken by our powerful times?
    Or is the newly enlivened participatory impulse that swept a young African
    American man into the White House an indication that we are growing up and
    developing expanded psychological capacities, new forms of thinking and social
    innovation.
    In this lecture psychologist Maureen O'Hara will take a fresh look at the
    challenges of the globalising 21st century. She will suggest that if we understand
    what is happening from an evolutionary perspective, we may be able to learn our
    way into a more humane future.

    1 hr 7 min
  • GCPH Seminar Series 5: - Prof Avner Offer - 'Should Government try to make us happy?'

    The determinants of 'happiness' and its distribution both domestically and internationally suggest that a more appropriate target for policy is 'unhappiness', which responds to several forms of public action.

    But setting happiness as an objective does suggest some policy priorities. These include non-material forms of recognition, taxation of positional goods and support of culture and the arts.
    Individuals have an intrinsic short-term myopic bias, which is exacerbated by the flow of novelty in affluent societies. They find it difficult to commit. Government has a role in supporting personal and social commitment for the long term, e.g. in co-ordinating responses to challenges such as climate change and energy depletion.

    1 hr 25 min

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