Alastair Leyland, Anna Pearce and Ruth Dundas discuss the important lessons learned from the past 30 years of health inequality research.
Podcast episode mentioned:
3.3 Health Inequalities Report
Further reading mentioned in the episode:
Link BG, Phelan J. Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. J Health Soc Behav. 1995;Spec No:80-94. PMID: 7560851.
Hilary Graham. Social determinants and their unequal distribution: clarifying policy understandings. Milbank Q. 2004;82(1):101-24. doi: 10.1111/j.0887-378x.2004.00303.x.
Whitehead M, Popay J. Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social determinants of health inequalities. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Oct;71(7):1234-1236. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.004.
Miall N, Fergie G, Pearce A. (2022) Health Inequalities in Scotland: trends in deaths, health and wellbeing, health behaviours, and health services since 2000.
Multimorbidity: definitions, challenges and implications for public health and health inequalities – a discussion for European Public Health Week
In this special edition of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, marking European Public Health Week, Anna Pearce talks to Fran O’Leary, Alistair Carr, and Phil Broadbent who are health professionals carrying out PhDs at the University of Glasgow to tackle some of our most pressing issues related to multi-morbidity.
Ruth Dundas and Lia Demou speak to Rachel Thomson about her research evaluating the impacts of universal basic income on mental health inequalities. Rachel discusses why it is important to evaluate the impact of economic policies on health and why she used a microsimulation approach to do that.
The paper mentioned in this podcast is:
Thomson RM, Kopasker D, Bronka P, Richiardi M, Khodygo V, Baxter AJ, Igelström E, Pearce A, Leyland AH. and Katikireddi SV. (2024) Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study. PLoS Medicine, 21(3), e1004358. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004358)
Rachel mentioned Scottish Government review of Minimum Income Guarantee. More information can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/groups/minimum-income-guarantee-steering-group/
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ruth Dundas hears from four PhD students about the future of public health. The conversation is with Katja Kraljević, Danny Bradford, Kirsten Hainey and Diego Andrade about their perspectives on the future of public health as part of European Public Health Week 2024 and the daily theme, "Next generation: Public health of today and tomorrow".
The project mentioned in this podcast is:
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce, Vittal Katikireddi and Phil Broadbent discuss their research on inequalities in childhood overweight as part of European Public Health Week 2024, to coincide with Thursday’s theme, “Health through the life course: Breaking down silos”.
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As part of the Wednesday theme of European Public Health Week 2024 “Planetary health: a glocal approach”, Alastair Leyland from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, talks to Natalia Romero, International University of Ecuador; Phil Cooper, St George’s University of London; and Mauricio Barreto and Gustavo Matta, CIDACS-Fiocruz. They discuss their NIHR-funded Global Health Research Unit on the Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities (SEDHI) and how they hope to influence policy to reduce health inequalities in Brazil and Ecuador.
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Trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: which age groups and birth cohorts are most effected?
In this special episode, in honour of European Public Health Week’s theme “Health is a Political Choice”, Anna Pearce, Denise Brown and Emma Congreve discuss work, funded by the Health Foundation, exploring trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: https://fraserofallander.org/?post_type=publications&p=46814
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi speak to Marcia Gibson about her work on Universal Basic Income as part of European Public Health Week 2024, which this year has the overall focus “Health is a political choice”.
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Lia Demou speak to Ruth Dundas about her evaluation of the Healthy Start vouchers scheme.
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Find out more about Growing Up in Scotland and the Infant Feeding Survey.
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ronan McCabe talks to Anna Pearce and Alastair Leyland about his recent work evaluating the impacts of the introduction of Baby Boxes in Finland and Scotland.
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To mark ‘Diversity in Health’ day during European Public Health Week, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce have a conversation with Vittal Katikireddi about a framework for understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes. You can read more about the framework in the open access paper discussed in the episode.
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As part of European Public Health Week’s ‘Mental Health for All’ day, 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities hosts Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce chat to Peter Craig about a recently commenced evaluation looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on mental health. You can read more about the study in the freely available protocol.
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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Naomi Miall, Gillian Fergie and Anna Pearce discuss their recently published report looking at trends in health inequalities in Scotland. You can find out more on the report website. Thanks to the commissioners of this report, the Health Foundation, as well as our many expert advisors and stakeholders.
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Ruth Dundas, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce discuss the Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) – including its aims, challenges, progress to date and next steps. You can visit the MatCHNet website to sign up to join the network and to find out more information, including policy briefings on welfare grants in pregnancy and early childhood, early years education and childcare, Universal Credit and welfare policies, data briefings, methods briefings, and recordings of webinars. More information on UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), the network’s funders, can be found on their website.
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In this 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce chat to Mirjam Allik and Edit Gedeon about their recently published findings on the health of care experienced children in Scotland.
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