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Population Health ForumThe Population Health Forum is a group based at University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and composed of academics, citizens, students, and activists from around North America. Additional recommended knowledge
Purpose and activitiesActivities include development of academic curricula for middle and high schools, advocacy, and maintenance of a population health listserv. They focus on raising awareness around the issue of population health and the social determinants of health. The forum focuses on the role that economic inequality and the gap between rich and poor impact a population’s health, using the “Health Olympics” (a ranking of countries in terms of life expectancy) as a model. The group aims to question why the United States ranks 29th in terms of health while spending half the world’s healthcare bill; it suggests that economic inequality as well as social stressors and loss of social cohesion are prime factors. InfluencesThe ideas of the group are heavily influenced by research into the social determinants of health by social social epidemiologists such as Richard Wilkinson and Ichiro Kawachi. See also
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