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 ..read more

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 Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit ..read more

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://a ..read more

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.  ..read more

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-eco ..read more

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 int ..read more

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.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

To mark ‘Diversity in Health’ day during European Public Health Week, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce have a conversation with Vittal Katikireddi about a framework for understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes. You can read more about the framework in the open access paper discussed in the episode.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

As part of European Public Health Week’s ‘Mental Health for All’ day, 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities hosts Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce chat to Peter Craig about a recently commenced evaluation looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on mental health. You can read more about the study in the freely available protocol. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Naomi Miall, Gillian Fergie and Anna Pearce discuss their recently published report looking at trends in health inequalities in Scotland. You can find out more on the report website. Thanks to the commissioners of this report, the Health Foundation, as well as our many expert advisors and stakeholders.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more