9th Global Conference - Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

Saturday 11th September – Monday 13th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness
and disease. In previous years, this interdisciplinary conference has attracted
delegates from around the world, including
practising clinicians, academics from a variety of disciplines, and persons involved in
community-based organizations.

At the beginning of the 21st Century, the world is
facing a plethora of health problems, some of
which could not have easily been predicted as
recently as the last two decades of the last
century. Globally, there are critical conditions
brought about by war, persecution, mass
migration, famine and gross social inequalities.
In the 'developed societies', a combination of
demographic and life-style factors is
putting increasing pressures on health-care
facilities that are in danger of fragmentation and under-funding. For its part, the general
public is presenting practitioners with a
challenging contradiction: on the one hand, people live longer than ever before and are, in some respects, healthier – but, on the other, the burden of chronic disease and 'un-wellness' is increasing, and so is the concern with
health-related matters on the part of the 'man and woman in the street'. The wellness/illness profile of to-day's communities renders prevention as important as therapy – which, in turn, implies that prevailing social attitudes have a key role in the dynamics of health, illness and health care as an inter-related system.

For complete information for this event, please follow the link to the official event website.

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