Join Dr Guddi Singh and colleagues for a session addressing health inequality with young people
About ‘Powering Up: Co-producing solutions to health inequality with young people’
Clinicians rarely talk about health inequality with patients missing opportunities to help in meaningful and materially significant ways.
Young people (YP) with chronic conditions are especially vulnerable: adolescent health is often overlooked and clinicians cite this group as daunting to connect with (Patton 2010). Adolescent DNA (did not attend) rates are as high as 15% and strongly correlated with deprivation. Health inequality and disengagement compound to delay access to adolescent care, negatively affecting health outcomes now and into adulthood.
Focusing on two deprived urban areas, what can YP in London and Birmingham teach us about their chronic conditions to increase the effectiveness and equity of clinical contacts and reduce delays in accessing care?
“Powering Up” is a pilot that aims to:
- Talk meaningfully to YP about health inequalities
- Empower YP to take charge of their own health
- Equip clinicians to coach YP in navigating health problems under social constraint
About Dr Guddi Singh
Dr Guddi Singh is a Consultant Paediatrician, health campaigner and TV broadcaster based in London.
Passionate about social justice and health equity, Guddi has worked around the world, including with the World Health Organization (WHO), Health Education England (HEE) and in resource-poor settings. She is Advocacy Lead for the British Association for Child and Adolescent Health (BACAPH), and helps manage the independent health think-tank, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI).
Guddi is keen to ‘humanize’ healthcare and believes the arts and humanities – including dance – will make this happen. She researches how medical professionalism might advance in the light of the social dimensions of disease and illness for her PhD at King’s College London. As a TV broadcaster, Guddi has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Al-Jazeera and Sky News.
The Mohn Centre is hosting this meeting as part of the official launch of the Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing taking place throughout the first week of July. If you are interested and want to know more, please contact Mohn Centre Scientific Manager, Charlotte Gredal c.gredal@ic.ac.uk.