Our new study in @socscimed on what works to reduce regional health inequalities is now available: https://t.co/4wQ7jRdiQE
We find that increased social security is the main factor contributing to lower inequalities in mortality following German reunification. @ProfBambra
[1/4] Ahead of this month's #Budget2024, we have sent a letter to the Prime Minister and @RachelReevesMP, signed by over 45 health experts and organisations to urge the #Gvt
to increase funding for public health.
👀Read the letter in full ➡️https://t.co/yeH5DHsd9u
⏰ A stark warning from the launch of the final report of the @IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity.
We are the sick man of Europe. That status is costing lives and severely damaging our economy. Children's health is in particular crisis.
But. It doesn't have to be this way
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Read our report published today revealing the regional inequalities in Long Covid rates across the country – with as many as 1 in 5 patients in some GP practices in the North of England reporting having the condition in 2022.
https://t.co/bd3LCQjLgm 1/9
Building good health and reducing #HealthInequalities requires action across government. All departments need to contribute and be held to account.
But how? Our new briefing sets it out.
Read now ⬇️
https://t.co/me1P3RjJW5
Reducing child poverty would decrease infant mortality, number of children looked after, malnutrition and emergency hospital admissions - particularly benefiting the North of England @_HENorth
Great to see our modelling study looking at the impact of reducing child poverty on health inequalities getting picked up in the media today. Full paper available in
@JECH_BMJ here ➡️ https://t.co/dl8DWYaZ1V
Great to see our modelling study looking at the impact of reducing child poverty on health inequalities getting picked up in the media today. Full paper available in
@JECH_BMJ here ➡️ https://t.co/dl8DWYaZ1V
New analysis by @DrNCBennett and @ProfBambra has revealed an increase in mortality inequalities in older age groups following the reversal of targeted government strategies to reduce health inequalities in 2010
https://t.co/3XzVLTRaZm
Our academics @DrNCBennett and @ProfBambra have analysed data that shows that the English national health inequalities strategy from the last @UKLabour government was associated with a decrease in inequalities in mortality for those aged 65-69 - read more👇https://t.co/3XzVLTRaZm
With detailed use of statistical material, @MichaelMarmot and @ProfBambra "barely contain their indignation at the prevailing lazy and collusive approach to health-based inequality over most of the past decade"
Great to see this review by Rowan Williams of The Conservative Effect by @AnthonySeldon and @Tom__Egerton in @TheStaggers
"The Conservative Effect explores how theatrical short-termism & specious rhetoric defined 14 years of mis-rule.”
https://t.co/v9t1RWpVSj
Turns out the Governments of the UK "failed their citizens" during the pandemic. And in areas like ours in the North East with high levels of vulnerability (health-wise), this was doubly so.
Not a surprise - (1/3)
📢 1st Call for Project Proposals Host Institutes
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To be able to have more impact GREATLEAP opens a Call for Proposals for Host Institutes to create a small project for a visiting scholar during their Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM). 🧵⬇️
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our first ever Health Equity North Summit today - such valuable sessions with lots of learning and opportunities taken from the day
🚨The Conservative Effect 2010-24: 14 Wasted Years? Is OUT TODAY! 🚨
Thank you to my co-editor @AnthonySeldon and the team at @CambridgeUP for their brilliant work and support over the last of this project.
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