Urban planning, housing and health inequalities

Presentation of the conclusions of the European Research Project SOPHIE (Work Package on Housing and Built environment)

Barcelona, Thursday 8th October 2015 09.00 to 14.00

Public Health Agency of Barcelona (ASPB), Plaça Lesseps 1. Conference room, 1st floor

Provisional Agenda:

09.00h Opening:

Carme Borrell, Principal Investigator SOPHIE and ASPB Managing Director

09.30 Panel 1: Health inequalities in the city of Barcelona and the impacts of urban regeneration

Introduced by Oriol Nel•lo, Department of Geography, UAB

– Èlia Díez ASPB (Moderator)

– Mortality evolution in the districts of Barcelona before and after the crisis. Maica Rodríguez ASPB

-Impacts of urban regeneration in inequalities in health: evaluating the Neighborhoods Act (Llei Barris, Catalonia). Davide Malmusi, ASPB.

Debate

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Panel 2: Fuel poverty, housing retrofitting and health

Daniel Calatayud, UPC (Moderator)

-Fuel poverty and self-perceived health in low-income population in Europe. Jordi Bosch, UPF.

-The impact on cold-related mortality of social housing retrofitting in Barcelona. Andres Peralta, ASPB

–Façade insulation retrofitting policy implementation process and its effects on health equity determinants: a realist review. Lluis Camprubí ASPB

Debate

12:30 Panel 3: Vulnerable populations at housing instability and risk

Vanesa Valiño, Housing Department of Barcelona city council (Moderator)

-Mortgage foreclosures and health: the case of PAH in Catalonia. Hugo Vásquez, ASPB

-Impacts of changes in housing on the health of a vulnerable population. Fernando Diaz, Caritas BCN

Debate

13:30 Closing

Gemma Tarafa, ASPB President, and Health Commissioner of Barcelona City Council.