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THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF LONGEVITY
Wednesday, January 24 , 9:30 am – 11:30 am CST
January 17, 19, 24, 26 (Wednesdays and Fridays) 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Attend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal
OR
Watch Online via Zoom
FEES:
$35 for Senior Professional members (includes all four sessions)
$45 for non-members (includes all four sessions)
For in person participation, pricing is per person.
For ZOOM participation, pricing is one registration per household.
Price includes:
Four 2-hour sessions (one Academy of Seniors class).
$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).
Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.
Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the class(es) and again on the day of each session.
Class Description
This class will cover some key insights regarding social determinants of health and longevity and how these factors play out across the United States and internationally.
January 17: Introduction to the powerful ways in which our social surroundings impact our health and longevity. Begin to explore how economic inequality affects people in surprising ways, both in the U.S. and internationally.
January 19: Health follows wealth, and ill health follows poverty. But sometimes things are even worse than we might expect, and average longevity reveals the impacts of both contemporary and historical conditions. Glasgow, Scotland illustrates this in fascinating ways.
January 24: Leveraging insights from the United Kingdom, travel to Central Appalachia to find similar patterns of lost jobs and shortened lives. Deaths of despair exist alongside creative efforts by public health workers to stand in the gap.
January 26: Conclusions are drawn at the macro and micro levels to better understand how economic conditions and psychosocial factors shape both population-level health and individual health experiences.
Greg Shaw, Professor of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University
