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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University, North East England. Personal account. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3cyGPHcAAAAJ&hl=en #healthinequality #healthequity #publichealth #SDoH #FPL
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Very interesting paper from @drmcnamara.bsky.social and @profbambra.bsky.social that explains 1) what is a #policycrisis and 2) its implications for global health and health inequalities

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In our new paper @profbambra.bsky.social and I argue that the ongoing #polycrisis has profound implications for global #publichealth, shaping health inequalities now and for future generations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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We need commercials for major academic papers the way they do movies, with the quotes and music and all. "Terrifying" "You won't sleep for days." "Shook me to my core" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Healthy food costs more than double less healthy options, analysis says

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EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Another jobs blow for the North East

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Oxycontin settlement: drug that generated US opioid crisis and billions of dollars for the Sackler family www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Our new study shows that the #covid vaccination reduced inequalities in mortality bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

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Our new study shows that the #covid vaccination reduced inequalities in mortality bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

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Our call for papers on deindustrialisation and health is still open! Bursaries for travel are available. Deadline is 26th Jan, but get in touch if you're interested in submitting an abstract and need some more time. @drmcnamara.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social www.healthdivides.co.uk/events

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📣⭐NEW PAPER: 'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ with @profbambra.bsky.social @profmlhussier.bsky.social & @stephscott.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social

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The UK has higher rates of health related worklessness than most comparable economies. In tackling this, the government should be careful to not drive people into more poverty, stigma, and ill health, and thereby further away from employment @profbambra.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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**Call for papers** We're running a symposium on health in deindustrialised communities in February. We'll be joined by @gscheiring.bsky.social for the keynote. Thanks to @fshi.bsky.social, travel/accom bursaries are available. Call for papers is open until 26th January - more info below⬇️

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"To get Britain working we need to get Britain healthy" - our BMJ editorial today with ideas for government @lukemunford.bsky.social @healthequitynorth.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Excited to have been awarded a grant by @fshi.bsky.social to run a symposium on 'Deindustrialisation and health in the UK and beyond'. More info including call for papers to follow very soon - watch this space! @profbambra.bsky.social

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Inequalities in old age mortality fell during the last Labour government - further evidence that we need a new health inequalities strategy #SDoH #healthinequality doi.org/10.1093/eurp...

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Evidence of inequalities in palliative care in this new paper

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Successor journal in spirit to Radical Community medicine

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Done ✅ 🎁 Don’t forget to add gift aid, so the charity receive an additional 25% of your donation from tax (no extra cost to you)

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I am a huge fan of lymphoma action after my dalliance with #hodgkins a few years ago. They are a super charity ❤️

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If you can please donate to @lymphomaaction.bsky.social all donations by Monday will be matched by @biggive.bsky.social Lymphoma is the most prevalent cancer in young adults donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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#ARCadvent day 6️⃣: Coastal, rural & areas in the North of England are less able to withstand/recover from adverse events, according to research led by academics @healthequitynorth.bsky.social, The University of Manchester, @hope-uom.bsky.social & @arc-gm.bsky.social arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...

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Pay attention #episky #idsky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky www.latimes.com/environment/...

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www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Assisted dying: MPs back bill to give some terminally ill people right to end lives in England and Wales.

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“Hope labour in academia” - this blog resonates with my own early career experiences and that of many colleagues www.lexacademic.com/blog/living-...

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Amazing gift from @donnawakefield.bsky.social

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Today we have a field trip to Baltic art centre to see Franki Raffles exhibit. baltic.art

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On structural violence ⏬ “They're not mentally ill, their lives are just shit”: Stakeholders' understanding of deaths of despair in a deindustrialised community in North East England T Price, V McGowan, S Visram, J Wildman, & @profbambra.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

submitted 101 days ago • 139 comments

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention

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Useful resource! @profbambra.bsky.social chapter on local health inequalities, plus the other chapters are free to download here: #HealthInequality #Equity ⬇️ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/55...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

putting people in extreme situations, of little future, harsh work conditions, little social services support, living costs higher than one can afford, is an effective way of driving people mad. harsh conditions might also get people voting for extreme parties, as a last 'way out'.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so glad that we are rebuilding #AcademicTwitter and #ScienceTwitter! They were extremely important communities, and their decline was a genuine loss. I am grateful and hopeful that Bluesky is giving us the chance to rebuild these remarkable human networks. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

The U-Shaped Curve of Health Inequalities journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 105 days ago • 53 comments

The lives and economic circumstances of low-to-middle income families have changed over the last 30 years. Here's four key things you should know about low-to-middle income families today ⤵️

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Coauthored by @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social

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New report from the British Academy looking at the history of regional policy in the UK - includes my chapter on health inequalities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

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