Illness or health have been approached, mainly, from epidemiology or health sciences. Currently, there is a growing interest, further accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, in the social aspects of the disease: its determinants, from childhood to adulthood, and the social consequences of poor health Aspects related to obesity, smoking or deaths due to despair and mental health put the focus in this area. The debate will deal with these aspects and the long-term repercussions on life expectancy.

Speakers:

Dr. Jennifer Beam Dowd, Professor of Demography and Population Health, and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford.

Dame Theresa M. Marteau, Professor and Director of the Health and Behavioral Research Unit, University of Cambridge.

Moderated by:

Dr. Daniel Ramírez Smith, ERC Advanced postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography of the CSIC.

Co-organised with El Observatorio Social.