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This
webinar is being produced by the International Association for the Study of
Pain's Social
Aspects of Pain Special Interest Group (SocSIG).
This webinar will examine demographic and sociological
aspects of chronic pain - with a special focus on pain trends and disparities
in the US and worldwide - and on the role of upstream macro-level factors in
shaping these pain outcomes. The presenters will:
1) Review the role of chronic pain as a holistic measure of population health -
focusing on its strong links to both physical and mental aspects of health - to
help understand the sometimes paradoxical findings about pain at the population
level;
2)
Present recent findings on sociodemographic inequalities in pain and their
potential drivers, with a focus on less commonly studied social groups (e.g.,
sexual minorities, multiracial individuals, etc.); and
3)
Use evidence from comparative studies to highlight the importance of
"upstream" factors - in particular national and subnational contexts
- in understanding pain trends and disparities.
There
will be a live Q+A session following these presentations.
Participants include:
--
Anna Zajacova, PhD, University of
Western Ontario, Canada
--
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, PhD,
University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
--
Adam Hirsh, PhD, Indiana University,
USA (moderator)
Learning Objectives:
1)
Conceptualizing pain as a holistic measure of population health.
2)
Understanding the role of upstream macro-level factors - in particular national
and sub-national level contexts - and their role in population pain patterns.
3)
Appreciating how these two aspects of pain, and its causes, help explain social
patterning of pain over time and across population groups - including among
racial/ethnic minorities and sexual minorities.