Thanks Jack, I've been wondering about differences in framing around talk of health disparities vs health inequalities vs health inequities and the different work/framing that these different descriptors do. I look forward to reading the work highlighted here
new commentary out with Russell Mannion on developing critical perspectives on health innovation www.ijhpm.com/article_4802...
Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social
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We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first:
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Health Communism is out in paperback today. It contains just one new endorsement, from RWG, which meant the world to us. “The authors are at once ahead of their time and right on time.”
Get it at the link below to donate to Sameer Project, or pirate it online and donate instead
New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...
New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
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New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
Staggering (even though we had clear idea) quite what the alleged profit margins are for these big publishers are...
Brand new research out from @changingrealities.bsky.social today. It's time to get the Child Poverty Strategy right.
Please do give it a read and a share.
new article on bioethics and populist health policy out now, with me, @gabyarguedas.bsky.social, @drberger.bsky.social and Russell Mannion. Great to see this now in print journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
New post from me up on health policy and redefinitions of who is (and isn't) eligible for welfare support www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s...
New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels
Contributed to piece in Guardian on Streeting claims re MH overdiagnoses. It's part of sustained govt move to reduce ESA claimants.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
you'd need your binoculars....
where? Can't see them...
Thanks Anna, time to revisit our paper on NHS England???www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1471903...
New Commentary from @heathercame.bsky.social & colleagues on excuses for racism (& how to counter them)
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We are pleased to announce that our new issue has just been published! Vol 2 (1). Read, enjoy, let your colleagues know!
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Based in UK? Working in soc of health? #medsoc Next @fshi.bsky.social deadline 28th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/
Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
BREAKING: The High Court has ruled the government's consultation into plans to slash billions of pounds from disability benefits claimants was unlawful
The case was brought by Ellen Clifford
Full report coming
New Blog - 'Catherine Will' - In our last blog of the year we remember Catherine Will, who died this year. Catherine was a founding member of the editorial collective and contributed numerous articles to the blog. Here is a short selection of her many articles.
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New Blog - 'Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies' - Veronica Heney reflects on the 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' exhibition and the relationship between art and anxiety and how the non-verbal can convey a sensation #art #anxiety #mentalhealth
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When did you make the jump? I left when he bought it, but I've not managed to get in the way of it again on here, much more lurking, much less posting, and also waiting for trolls to arrive... all a bit sad really 😔
Scotland experiences higher mortality rates and larger health inequalities than other high-income countries, including the wider UK. The predominantly epidemiological evidence-base identifies deprivation, inequalities in wealth, deindustrialization, health behaviours and housing as important factors, while excess mortality has been attributed to a ‘political attack’ on the Scottish population in the late twentieth century. This paper synthesises 48 studies offering lay perspectives on the factors shaping health in Scotland, identified via systematic searches. The findings demonstrate that people with lived experience of disadvantage have a good understanding of the social determinants of health inequalities. We also identify five ways in which Scotland’s disadvantaged communities experience a sense of ‘attack’: the structural violence of poverty; disadvantageous national policies; ‘street level bureaucrats’ gatekeeping welfare support; local profiteers (e.g., unresponsive landlords); and interpersonal violence. We argue that these findings provide support for the ‘political attack’ hypothesis and that they suggest research and policy needs to better grapple with the depth of poverty, the intersectional nature of inequalities and the roles that history, narratives, crime, violence and policy implementation each play in shaping Scotland’s health outcomes. We call for research and policy responses that ground both diagnosis and future prescriptions in the experiential knowledge of those most negatively impacted.
Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland -
Ellen Stewart
University of Glasgow
JCPH Vol. 1 No. 2
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New blog - "Lived Experience and Social Welfare Policy" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social examines the democratic deficit caused by the discrepancy between healthcare policy and social welfare policy #healthcare #socialwelfare www.cost-ofliving.net/lived-experi...