Equality, Global

Equity at the Centre – highlights

November 23, 2014

Following her attendance at the Equity at the Centre Conference in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks reports on some of the presentations made during the two day event. Read an overview of the highlights from Karen.

The economics of social jutice – cost benefit analysis to achieve social determinants action

The main thrust of Martin Laverty’s presentation was that equity is an economic asset for a country and should be valued as such.

Politics, Power and People

“Austerity kills” – that was the claim of Sharon Friel, Professor of Health Equity at the Australian National University, Canberra in her presentationPower and People: a game plan for health equity in the 21st Century.

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