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A theater-forum to talk about Health inequalities, this is the meeting that three Toulouse researchers give as part of the Ingescience festival. See you on May 13 in Balma to find solutions.
As part of the 5th edition of the Inscience Festival offered by Inserm (May 12-25), three Toulouse researchers imagined a theater-forum. They meet the public on Tuesday, May 13 at 2 p.m., in La Grainerie (61 rue Saint-Jean in Balma), to understand health inequalities and act together (1).
For Gauthier Peirera, statistical research engineer, Lucy Darras, study manager and educational projects, and Camille Joannes, lecturer in nursing sciences, all three members of the Equity team at the Center for Epidemiology and Health Research of Populations (CERPOP), the idea is to show that there are solutions for more equitable health.
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“In general, as a researcher, it is difficult to transmit knowledge to the general public. This meeting is the perfect opportunity,” says Gauthier Peirera. “And it is all the more important that received ideas circulate on health inequalities. For example, we are often told that medical deserts are a factor of inequality when things are played well upstream of the healthcare system with environmental exposure, behavior, understanding of medical messages, etc.”, adds Lucy Darras.
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“The gaps in the state of health are often linked to social characteristics. Diseases such as certain cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and mental, or even higher mortality rates, are more often found in socially disadvantaged people. Unfortunately, these inequalities tend to increase. Gender, skin color, and disability are also social dimensions that can influence these inequalities” Camille Joannes.
“Encourage them to act!”
Researchers, who argue for the integration of social data in health studies in France, hope to succeed in making the complexity of health inequalities understand. “And, above all, that the public leaves with ideas to fight them. We want to encourage to act!”
