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A few days analyzed in the UMU the past, the present and the future of inequality and poverty (22/01/2018)

Last Friday successfully concluded the UMU Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Wellbeing in Spain: New views, new approaches, held on 18 and 19 January, at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Murcia.

Organized by the Department of Applied Economics, under the direction of José Miguel Martínez Carrión and Josep Maria Ramón Muñoz, professors of the Economic History Area, they brought together more than 60 specialists from 18 universities and research centers, including international areas.

The impact of these days has been excellent.

On the one hand, the network of researchers is broadened around historical anthropometry, which highlights the importance of indicators of height, weight at birth and body mass at different ages, to analyze nutritional problems and social inequalities.

The field of knowledge has also been strengthened with interdisciplinary contributions that feed the research project of the Seneca Foundation and the MINECO of the University of Murcia and other universities.

The results will be published this year in a special issue of an important journal of clinical nutrition with impact and international dissemination.

Designed in several blocks, the first was dedicated to the "Past and Present of Inequality" with three framework papers from different disciplines (economics, sociology and economic history) that analyzed its territorial and social impact.

It ended with the presentation by Antonio Villar (Pablo Olavide University, Seville) of the results of the monograph "The facets of well-being: a multidimensional approach to the quality of life in Spain and its autonomous communities, 2006-2015", in collaboration with Carmen Herrero and Ángel Soler, who will publish in 2018 the Valencian Institute for Economic Research (IVIE-Fundación BBVA).

The second block was constituted by the IV Workshop of Anthropometric History during the afternoon of Thursday 18 and the morning of Friday 19. With the theme Inequality, Nutrition and Health in Spain 16 papers were presented, in 4 tables, prepared by more than 40 researchers of Spanish and European universities.

The result of research supported by competitive projects, important findings about the stature of Spaniards in the last three centuries stood out.

The analyzes on dimorphism (difference between the height of men and women), the territorial patterns of the heights by provinces and regions, the convergence-divergence according to rural-urban residence, rural areas according to dry-irrigated land, the contribution of the school colonies from the late nineteenth century, the sizes by urban districts according to the wealth of its inhabitants, or differences in height according to the profession and education in different environmental contexts.

The last century received great attention by specialists given the regime changes that affected the different health care and nutritional policies.

The social gap was addressed during the Spanish post-war period, the nutritional status in the Spanish army and the rural world during Franco's Spain.

Finally, there were significant contributions on the most recent stage, such as the impact of the Great Recession (2007-2015) on low birth weight in mothers, which reflects social inequalities, and trends on the prevalence of overweight and obesity at scale regional from the year 2000 until the last survey, which reflect the relationships between nutrition, wealth and education and justify the importance of institutional interventions in the area of ​​food consumption, mainly among children.

This was the theme of the Closing Conference, in charge of Javier Aranceta Bartrina, President of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) and Vice President of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition.

Finally, there was a Research Seminar framed in the Doctorate in Interuniversity Economics (DEcIDE), in charge of the co-director of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Adolfo E. Meisel Roca, under the title "Inequality and nutritional health in Latin America. of the Colombians and their determinants, 1920-1990 ".

The opening ceremony was chaired by Samuel Baixauli Soler, Dean of the Faculty who also supported these conferences, and was attended by Concepción Ruiz Caballero, Deputy Councilor for Social Rights of the City of Murcia, in addition to the organizers of the Department.

In the closing ceremony, the General Director of Universities and Research of the CARM, Juan Monzó Cabrera;

the Vice Chancellor for Research of the UMU, Antonio J. García Fernández (who directed the event and closed the conference) and the Director of the Department of Applied Economics, José D. Buendía Azorín, as well as the organizers.

The Days had the support of the Seneca Foundation.

Agency of Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia, framed in the aid and research projects of the same Agency and of different projects financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

State Research Agency, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

They also formed part of the activities of the Campus of International Excellence "Campus Mare Nostrum".

Source: Universidad de Murcia

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