So-called ‘healthy towns’ will address child obesity and dementia, but the real killer remains at large.
- Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
The harshest cuts have yet to happen, but the bite is already being felt.
How Premier League teams would be arranged if table was according to their area’s health.
The UK’s “Work Capability Assessment” is a disaster, but other countries show us how it can be fixed.
The largest study of poverty ever conducted in the UK has laid out the dire state of British deprivation – and seriously undercut the government’s claim to be lifting people out of poverty through work…
There has been much written in the media over the last year about the legacy of Thatcherism and the ways in which it reshaped the British political landscape. However, in new empirical research published…
In a new report, Working For The Few, Oxfam warns that the fight against poverty cannot be won until wealth inequality has been tackled. The wealth of the richest 1% in the world amounts to $110 trillion…
In the UK today, there are sizeable inequalities in health – and sometimes that gap isn’t just about north versus south. In Stockton Tees in the north-east of England, for example, there’s a 15-year gap…
The north-south divide is a powerful trope within popular English culture and it’s also evident within the country’s health. A recent report by Public Health England showed that between 2009 and 2011…
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