Скачать или смотреть The rising prevalence of long-term health conditions: Why we now need a new ‘Health Society’.

Most of us only interact with the NHS when we feel unwell – our interaction is a reactive process and the majority of us define our ‘health’ erroneously as just being the absence of disease. Although life expectancy has been increasing at a population level, the gap between population ‘Life Span’ and ‘Health Span’ (how long we stay well) is not reducing at all. Thus more people are living longer but with more illness along with pain, disability and the associated costs that go with it.

With this as the context, this talk focuses on providing the evidence for the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and multi-morbidity in the UK. Bill discusses the evidence for the link between obesity, smoking, other factors and chronic disease. He also provides a new definition of what we mean by health and explains the concept of ‘biological relativity’ and its relevance to chronic disease. He finishes by looking at how a better
appreciation of risk can change behaviour, the need for a National Health Society and how we can approach making a change.

Bill Ollier, Professor of Immunogenetics
Manchester University & Manchester Metropolitan
Monday 11th October
16.00-17.15
Live via Zoom