Health Divides – Where you live can kill you
This is a slightly edited version of Chapter 6, the discussion of health inequalities policy, …
Where you live can kill you
In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30-year discrepancy between the life …
Why England could get knocked out in the quarter finals
England would get knocked out in the quarter finals of Euro 2016 if the tournament …
Obesity: How Thatcherism made us fat
Clare Bambra and Ted Schrecker A 2010 editorial in the Journal of the American Medical …
Who are the top football teams in the health league?
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death,” Bill Shankly, Liverpool FC’s …
The protective effects of social democratic welfare states during recessions
We are currently being told by the Coalition government that we are “all in it …
Labour policies to tackle the social determinants of health?
As the 2010 Marmot Review (and before that the 2008 WHO report on Closing the …
A price worth paying? The toxic health legacy of Thatcherism
There has been much written in the media over the last year about the legacy …
Two cheap ways councils can fight health inequality
This article was first published by The Conversation and is reproduced by kind permission of …
The north loses out yet again under NHS funding proposals
By Clare Bambra, Durham University and Alison Copeland, Durham University The north-south divide is a …