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. She discussed 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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