Health promotion
Promoting health in a changing world
Our global community has reached many public health milestones during the last decades. However, the world is rapidly changing, and we are continuously faced with new challenges, but also opportunities. In this session, we will discuss their implications for health promotion and preventive health care for the next decades. The participants in the panel debate come from different disciplines and sectors, which should enable a holistic and nuanced debate on how to promote a healthy future for our societies.
Forecasting health and population in the 21st century. What will the future look like?
Stein Emil Vollset
This presentation will give an overview of the metrics and coverage of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD). For the world and major world regions, main findings from forecasts of disease burden to 2050 will include:
- The trajectory of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy
- Future fatal and non-fatal burden from major disease and injuries groups for deaths and disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
- Future health scenarios from reducing exposures to environmental, non-communicable and malnutrition risk factors
Additionally, we will explore the future of fertility and population trends up to 2100 and link those to challenges for global health in the coming decades.
Biography
Stein Emil Vollset, MD, MPH, DrPH, is Professor of Health Metrics at the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is leading the Future Health Scenarios forecasting team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Prior to IHME, Dr. Vollset was a professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and he held leadership positions at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, first as director of the Medical Birth Registry and later as director of the Centre for Disease Burden. He research work focused on Norwegian and European cohort and health registries data, and more recently burden of disease studies. Dr. Vollset holds a medical degree from the University of Bergen, Norway, and master and doctoral degrees with specialization in biostatistics from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health.
Panel debate: Health promotion the next decades: Challenges and opportunities
Participants
- Stein Emil Vollset (Professor, University of Washington)
- Dina von Heimburg (Associate Professor, NTNU)
- Steinar Krokstad (Professor and Psychaitry Specialist, NTNU, HUNT Research Centre, Levanger Hospital)
- Dorthe Stensvold (Professor, NTNU)
- Heine Alexander Holmen (Head of Department at Philosphy and Religious Studies, NTNU)
Moderator: Terje Eikemo (Professor, Leader of Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research, NTNU)
Session Committee
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Terje Andreas Eikemo Professor, Leader of CHAIN
+4799034077 terje.eikemo@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Siw Tone Innstrand Professor
+47-73597450 +4799234899 siw.tone.innstrand@ntnu.no Department of Psychology -
Dorthe Stensvold Professor
+4792092856 dorthe.stensvold@ntnu.no Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging