1. Julie Fish and Kate Karban

2. Social Work & Health Inequalities Network

3. Sierra Leone MalawiChinaAustraliaJapan Under 5s mortality (per 1,000 live births) 2691202464 Average life expectancy at birth 4050738283 Source: Bywaters et el (2009) Social work and global health inequalities. Bristol: Policy Press.

4. A girl born today can expect to live for more than 80 years if she is born in some countries, but less than 45, if she is born in others. These inequalities in health are avoidable and are shaped by political, social and economic policies.

5. 100 countries committed, including:  UK Fair Society Healthy Lives 2010  US Healthy People 2020  Canada Action plan  Brazil  Chile  Mozambique  Kenya  New Zealand  Sri Lanka  Sweden

6. This can be an interactive session (10 minutes) where students give examples for their own health and of the service users they work with. Reminder: Health is not merely the absence of disease, but a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. (World Health Organization, 1974)

7.  IFSW (International Federation of Social Workers) (2012) Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development: A commitment for action.  People’s health and well being suffer as a result of inequalities… to which there are inadequate international responses.  Commitments Promoting social and economic equalities  Available from: http://cdn.ifsw.org/assets/globalagenda2012.pdf http://cdn.ifsw.org/assets/globalagenda2012.pdf

8. 1. Poor or threatened physical or mental health is almost universal for service users and carers, because of exposure to poverty and disadvantaged social conditions. 2. Health should be a core factor in in every social work assessment and intervention plan. 3. Social work can contribute to reducing health inequalities by working with service users to increase their material and social resources, access to information and support systems http://www.swap.ac.uk/docs/swapguide_6.pdf

9. Marmot’s UK Conceptual Framework

10.  Promoting well being in older people Promoting well being in older people

11.  Connecting people: an exploratory study of how health and social care workers help people to develop and maintain relationships Examines how social care practitioners are helping people with mental health problems to access more social capital through discussions with and observations of social care workers in a range of NHS mental health services and voluntary sector services.  Investigates how social care practitioners help people to develop new social relationships and to feel secure in these.  Considers how practitioners help people with mental health problems make use of the power, prestige, wealth or abilities of individuals they know to help them move on in their lives.  http://connectingpeoplestudy.net/resources/practice- guidance/. http://connectingpeoplestudy.net/resources/practice- guidance/  Martin Webber University of York

12.  Empower Women and Providers: Domestic Violence and Mental Health   The project Empower Women and Providers: Domestic Violence and Mental Health is a Daphne EU funded participatory action research aimed at supporting women who have experienced domestic violence and mental health difficulties towards improved wellbeing and control over their lives.  In parallel it also aimed at awareness raising, skills at identification of domestic violence and communicating with women who have experienced it, and changing attitudes towards them.  Shula.Ramon@anglia.ac.uk Shula.Ramon@anglia.ac.uk

13.  Coren, E., Iredale, W., Bywaters, P., Rutter, D. & Robinson, J. (2010) The contribution of social work and social care to the reduction of health inequalities: four case studies. Research Briefing. London: SCIE www.scie.org.ukwww.scie.org.uk  Fish, J. (2007) Reducing health inequalities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people - briefings for health and social care staff. London: Department of Health http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndG uidance/DH_078347  Fish, J. and Karban, K. (2013) Health inequalities at the heart of the social work curriculum. Social Work Education. DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2012.742502  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02615479.2012.742502 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02615479.2012.742502  Gregory, C. (2010) Improving health and social care support for carers from black and ethnic minority communities. Race equality Foundation (Accessed 14 December 2011).  Malek, M. (2011) Enjoy, Achieve and Be Healthy: The mental health of Black and minority ethnic children and young people. London: Afiya Trust. Available at: http://www.afiya- trust.org/http://www.afiya- trust.org/  Marmot, M. (2010) Fair Society, Healthy Lives – the Marmot Review. Strategic review of Health Inequalities in England – post2010 http://www.marmotreview.org/http://www.marmotreview.org/  Randhawa, G. (2007) Tackling health inequalities for Minority Ethnic groups. Race Equality Foundation briefing. http://www.better-health.org.uk/briefings/tackling- health-inequalities-minority-ethnic-groups-challenges-and-opportunitieshttp://www.better-health.org.uk/briefings/tackling- health-inequalities-minority-ethnic-groups-challenges-and-opportunities

14. Social Work and Health Inequalities Network How to join the network: sign up at www.warwick.ac.uk/go/swhin www.warwick.ac.uk/go/swhin Click on 'subscribe' and follow the instructions Julie Fish & Kate Karban Joint Convenors jfish@dmu.ac.uk/ k.karban@bradford.ac.uk Help us to reach our 2013 goal of 100 new members!