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”.

The papers discussed in this podcast are: 

• Broadbent, P., Shen, Y., Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Trends in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity prevalence: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233 
• Miall, N. and Pearce, A. (2024) Growing up in Scotland: obesity from early childhood to adolescence. Documentation. Obesity Action Scotland. https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/media/c2elenpt/gus-report-full-final.pdf 

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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

The other publications mentioned in this podcast are: 

• Trends in Health Inequalities in Scotland  
• Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland  
• Health inequalities in Scotland: An independent review - The Health Foundation 
• Deaths of despair: cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland 
• Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain  

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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”. 

The papers discussed in this podcast are:  

• Gibson, M. (2023) Basic income is a popular idea, but small pilots cannot produce generalisable evidence. British Medical Journal, 383, p. 2304  https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2304  
• Gibson, M. , Hearty, W. and Craig, P. (2020) The public health effects of interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review. Lancet Public Health, 5(3), e165-e176 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266720300050?via%3Dihub   

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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. 

Read the full report about the Healthy Start vouchers. 

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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