Café Économique : Inequality and Stress. An online talk by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor in Public Health

As well as damaging both physical and mental health, stress adds to a wide range of social problems including violence.  But there is little understanding of why people find modern societies so stressful.  Personal stress and how unequal a society is seem worlds apart, but Richard Wilkinson will show how inequality affects us most intimately.

Richard is now Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School. His research has drawn attention to the tendency for societies with bigger income differences between rich and poor to suffer a heavier burden of health and social problems. He is the co author with Kate Pickett of The Spirit Level  ( 2009) and The Inner Level ( June 2018).

This talk is organized by Café Économique, as part of a monthly series of talks and debates on current social, economic and environmental topics.

Due to Covid 19, the talk will be online using zoom. Anyone wishing to join the talk needs to sign up to the Café Economique email list:   cafeeconomiqueleeds2019@gmail.com.

A zoom link and password will be sent to the email list close to the date of the talk.