Population Health and Primary Care Seminar Series 

Speaker:  Andy Jones. Professor in Public Health

Title: The Importance of Place: Taking a Geographical View of Health

Location:  Room 2.02, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Date:    Tuesday, 19 February 2013 @ 12:00

Abstract:  Socioecological models are increasingly being used to frame research questions in the field of population health. The models were developed to further the understanding of the dynamic interrelations among various personal and environmental factors. Whilst both health behaviours and associated health outcomes can be shaped by the characteristics of the environments within which we live, work, and study, such factors are often overlooked in research studies. In part this may be because of the difficulties involved in quantifying characteristics of environments and their use. Nevertheless, new technologies based around the use of geographical information systems are allowing us to gain a better understanding of the importance of environmental factors for health than has previously been possible. In this seminar we will highlight the potential of these techniques by discussing current research that investigates the environmental influences on behaviours associated with obesity.

NNUH/UEA Research Seminar series

Please reserve the following dates in your diary from 12.30 - 1.30 for future research seminars:

Friday 8th February 2013
Friday 8th March 2013
Friday 12th April 2013
Friday 10th May 2013
Friday 14th June 2013
Friday 12th July 2013
Friday 9th August 2013
Friday 13th September 2013
Friday 11th October 2013
Friday 8th November 2013
Friday 13th December 2013

East Anglian Research Synthesis group (EARS) Seminar

Dates of forthcoming meetings:

Wed 20th Feb, 1.00pm – 2.30pm, CD Annex 1.23
Tues 26th Mar. 1.00pm – 2.30pm, Med 1.02
Wed 24th Apr 12.00pm – 1.30pm, Queens, 2.22

NB – please note the different start / end times.

Health Economics Group Seminars

Speaker: Ed Wilson

Title: To be confirmed

Location: Room 2.02, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Date: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 @ 12:00

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Additional lectures and seminars are held by individual groups.

BIO Lectures (Wednesdays at 16:00 in Room Elizabeth Fry 01.05 unless otherwise advertised) - more information is available

Cell, Development & Biomedicine (CDB) Lectures (Thursdays @ 13.00 in EFRY 01.08 unless otherwise advertised) - more information is available

Population Health & Primary Care Seminars and Health Economics Group Seminars - Val Knights (v.knights@uea.ac.uk)

To see a list of the previous seminars we have held please click on the following links:

2010 FoH Research Seminar Spring Series (2010) (PDF. 9KB)

2009 FoH Research Seminar Autumn Series (2009) (PDF. 48KB)

2009 FoH Research Seminar Spring Series (2009) (PDF. 76KB)

2008-09 FoH Research Seminar Autumn Series (2008) (PDF. 61KB)