📢 New paper! We examine intersectional inequalities in neighbourhood air pollution concentration by area deprivation, ethnicity, education, rurality and age. We find evidence of patterns of inequality which depart from an additive framework link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Intersectional Inequalities in Neighbourhood Air Pollution Concentration in England: A Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Data Using Eco-Intersectional Multilevel (EIM) Modelling - Applied Spatial An...

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy - Air pollution is detrimentally associated with many health outcomes, yet its impacts are not equally distributed. Research consistently finds inequalities by...

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NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work

Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.

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Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

It is so great to see this paper by @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social out at last - a much needed political economy lens to the issue of housing and its impact on health. Stories of disrepair, insecurity and homelessness, all in service of wealth extraction. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Take away the greed of the private landlord housing market… because that is killing people”: Examining the political economy of housing and health inequalities in four English coastal towns.

Health inequalities are the avoidable and unjust differences in health that arise from how society and the economy are structured. These inequalities …

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Welcome intervention, commissioned by @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social's Work and Pensions Select Committee, to demonstrate that better employment support for disabled people could generate significant fiscal savings, without needing to rely on crude cuts to benefits inews.co.uk/news/politic...

How Reeves could save £12bn without cutting disability benefits

Billions could be recouped by the Treasury by offering careers support for the disabled

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If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress

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New annual report from @scothealtheq.bsky.social just launched - as well as providing an update on key stats + qualitative insights on socioeconomic drivers of health inequalities, report places spotlight on preventable deaths from drugs, alcohol & suicide scothealthequity.org/2025-inequal... 1/3

Mental health problems are real. But they’re rarely people’s only barrier to work. People with experience of mental distress describe a wide range of social, economic, relational and structural barriers to work – in addition to the challenges posed by symptoms. It’s more than a mental health issue 🧵

Lovely few days at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social, so good that my only pics are some bunnies playing in the sun. Ending with a great session presenting some of my PhD research on work in deindustrialised communities (thank you @sionedps.bsky.social for chairing!)

As mentioned in the welfare bill amendment, the Government has not yet published any analysis on the employment effects of its benefit cuts. Here at @resfoundation.bsky.social, we gave it a go last month...

Here’s the story - the amendment will be published later this evening but expect more names to be added in the coming days www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More welfare spending alone not route to social justice

Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures

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BREAKING - I understand a large number of MPs - potentially 80+ and including select committee chair are signing a reasoned amendment to the welfare bill which declines to give it a second reading

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Medicalisation of public health: a narrative review Yep This stuff matters enormously The medicalization of population health policy is a significant risk to, well, health Read alongside Lantz pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37096631/

Medicalisation of public health: a narrative review

To critically examine the medicalisation of public health and its implications for addressing upstream social, environmental, and structural determina…

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The government has introduced legislation today to implement cuts to disability & health benefits There have been no substantial concessions on how the proposals were originally presented in the Green Paper Here is what we know about the impact these cuts will have... 🧵

The government says its cuts to disability benefits are part of a “moral mission” to get more people working. But analysis shows fewer than 100,00 are expected to start work by the end of the parliament. Meanwhile around 3m will have disability & health related benefits cut. 1/4

NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show

Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts

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On Friday afternoon, the Govt published the evidence pack for its Pathways to Work Green Paper. It confirms that the Govt's PIP cut will hit older people hardest, despite all the rhetoric about focusing on 'snowflake' young people. A quick thread...

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an **18.5%** reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

“And Breathe Normally”: Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being

Air pollution poses a global concern due to its detrimental effects on climate, healthcare, and human capital accumulation. However, there is limited …

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The OBR has not yet been able to forecast any employment gain from the cuts/changes to incapacity & disability benefits MPs are being asked to support around £6.5bn of cuts & increased conditionality for ill & disabled people without any clear assessment of what it will achieve

Last week the government proposed cuts to disability and long-term sickness benefits. These cuts will leave some disabled people significantly worse off. 📢 By 2029/30, someone that loses PIP daily living and LCWRA will be over £800 per month worse off 1/4

'I was one of a group of parents living in poverty who met with members of the government in Downing Street last year to push for changes to this broken system. I worry now that our pleas for change have been ignored." Brian on green paper in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Turning on the lights is a luxury in my family. These benefit changes will push us even closer to the edge | Brian

For years we have cut back, and back again. My benefits will now be frozen, but there’s nothing left to sacrifice, says Brian, a Changing Realities participant

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Powerful article for @lbc.co.uk from disabled mum of 3. Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves need to read this before pressing ahead with huge cuts to disability benefits. "The thought of my disability benefits being cut is keeping me up at night. There is nothing left for me to cut." 1/3 t.co/BJQ6WZshPh

A few months ago the FT suggested the surge in disability benefit claims may not have been driven by an actual rise in illness/disability, having found limited evidence for such a rise since the pandemic Now the IFS has published research suggesting there has been a rise ifs.org.uk/news/various...

Various indicators point to a deterioration in population mental health – likely contributing to rising disability benefit caseloads | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent with rising disability benefit claims for mental health.

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Cutting PIP quite simply means harming people's welfare. The evidence is clearly there that Disabled people face higher living costs, and PIP helps alleviate that. It's got nothing to do with work. For example, from CASE 20 years ago: sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/pu...

Looking ahead to the disability benefits green paper, this essay for @citizensadvice.bsky.social makes the case for a system focused on improving health outcomes. Co-authors @maddyirose.bsky.social, @victoria-anns.bsky.social & Simon Collerton We challenge the 5 big falsehoods underpinning cuts…🧵

📣📣📣 Absolutely fabulous job opportunity @healthfoundation.bsky.social for a Public Health Consultant with the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities through transforming prevention policy - in its broadest sense - across the UK! Please share ☺️ lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

Read about our “game changer” for an Institute for Preventative Health based in the North 👇 announced today

The NHSA@thenhsa.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, we announced proposals for an institute to tackle ill health in the North at #COTN25. Northern leaders joined us for a workshop - chaired by Mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard - to discuss plans. More on the Institute for Preventative Health Research 👇🏼 www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/02/prop...

Thanks to all who joined our symposium on deindustrialisation and health this week - particular thanks to @gscheiring.bsky.social for such a fascinating keynote that brought so many aspects of the day together. Looking forward to developing some of these ideas further! @drmcnamara.bsky.social

"A child poverty “strategy” that is silent on the needlessly cruel two-child limit would be a mockery.. it would also raise the question – again – of what this Labour government is for." spot on from @guardianheather.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour must seize the moment to show child poverty matters in push for growth | Heather Stewart

Scrapping two-child benefit cap is among levers Rachel Reeves could pull – yet chancellor remains silent on ‘shameful’ levels of poverty

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