Abstract

October’s Reading Group will be led by Dr Shobhana Nagraj, Assistant Professor of Primary & Community Care in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care

TOPIC

Women’s Health across the life course: Dr Shobi Nagraj

READING

Bundy, Donald A et al., Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition, The Lancet 391 (10121), 687-699 (2018). DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32417-0.

INTRODUCTION

Life course approaches to women’s health focus on health, not as isolated events (eg: pregnancy, menopause), but as a continuum, shaped by wider biological, psychological, social and environmental factors across a woman’s entire life. In this reading group, we will explore how early experiences across the first 8000 days of life, shape health outcomes for women globally, including cardiovascular disease (the leading cause of death in women worldwide), reproductive health, mental health, and their intergenerational impacts. The review identifies critical windows of opportunity for intervention, and emphasises the importance of the social determinants of health, such as education, poverty and gender equality, and their impact upon women’s health over time. This should be a lively discussion on the wider systems in which we view women’s health and how we design and deliver interventions for long-term impact.

Registration open to join the group, open to Cambridge postgraduate students and staff.

Register at https://forms.office.com/e/fyK9EAEcCi