[EQ] Remembering Peter Townsend: April 6, 1928 - June 7, 2009

From: Nancy Krieger
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Obituary
Peter Townsend, Social policy professor at the LSE and joint founder of the Child Poverty Action Group

“…..A note to honor the passing of a key scholar and activist who throughout his life linked issues of social justice, public health, and well-being: Peter Townsend (1928-2009), co-author of the internationally renowned 1980 Black Report on health inequalities in the UK, creator of the Townsend index of deprivation (an area-based measure of economic deprivation used widely in health research in the UK and adapted for use elsewhere), and a critical analyst of and advocate against poverty and its harmful effects on health and well-being….”

Centre for the Study of Human Rights - London School of Economics and Political Science
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/humanRights/peterTownsend.htm

See below the obituary just published in The Guardian, available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun/09/obituary-peter-townsend


Nancy Krieger, PhD
Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 717 Boston, MA 02115 (USA)

 

 

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