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How can public health research help people experiencing severe disadvantage?
- Venue: Online via MS Teams
- Start: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT
- End: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:30:00 GMT
About this event
The goal of the workshop is to focus on identifying gaps and priorities for research and building networks to improve the physical, mental and oral health of people living with multiple disadvantage. This includes people experiencing homelessness, substance use and repeat offending (collectively known as severe and multiple disadvantage) at the same time. The workshop will include presentations from Fuse researchers, reflections from practitioners, people with lived experience and an interactive session to identify priorities.
Findings from two studies focused on health systems and based in rural and urban settings will be presented:
1. Improving oral health and related health behaviours of adults experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage in England
This study provides learning for improving the delivery and accessibility of interventions for oral health, substance use, smoking and diet to improve engagement and uptake of the services.
2. Supporting people experiencing homelessness in rural coastal North East England
This study provides recommendations for improving rounded support for wider health and care needs of people experiencing homelessness in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
What will I gain from this event?
The workshop will provide a space for networking and for identifying unmet needs, gaps in service provision, system priorities and opportunities to improve participation and involvement of people with experience of severe and multiple disadvantage. This collaborative workshop will use a mix of presentations and ‘brainstorming’ session to identify research priorities. It will bring stakeholders together to develop research ideas aiming to reduce health inequalities.
Who should attend?
This event will be of interest to public health practitioners and academics in physical and mental health, oral health, health systems, social care, people who have current or past experience of homelessness, offending, or substance use, members of the public, and staff and volunteers who work in the NHS or voluntary sector who have an interest in health inequalities.
Event programme 12th November 2024
Presentations
Sheena Ramsay - Improving the health of people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage
Jill Harland - Improving the health of people experiencing multiple and severe disadvantage
Steven Thirkle - Supporting people experiencing homelessness in rural coastal North East England
Research Briefs summarising this research
Event recording - https://youtu.be/9ZIlbcUVbmY
