15 Minutes on Health Inequalities

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 ReportFurther 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 WeekIn 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. Rachel discusses 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/ Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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 InequalitiesVisit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233 Miall, N. and Pearce, A. (2024) Growing up in Scotland: obesity from early childhood to adolescence. Documentation. Obesity Action Scotland. https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/media/c2elenpt/gus-report-full-final.pdf Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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. Visit the SEDHI website to find out more.Follow them on X:Alastair LeylandMauricio BarretoGustavo Matta Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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=46814The other publications mentioned in this podcast are: Trends in Health Inequalities in Scotland  Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland  Health inequalities in Scotland: An independent review - The Health Foundation Deaths of despair: cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain  Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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 interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review. Lancet Public Health, 5(3), e165-e176 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266720300050?via%3Dihub   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on X.

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.

In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ronan McCabe talks to Anna Pearce and Alastair Leyland about his recent work evaluating the impacts of the introduction of Baby Boxes in Finland and Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.

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.

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.

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.

Ruth Dundas, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce discuss the Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) – including its aims, challenges, progress to date and next steps. You can visit the MatCHNet website to sign up to join the network and to find out more information, including policy briefings on welfare grants in pregnancy and early childhood, early years education and childcare, Universal Credit and welfare policies, data briefings, methods briefings, and recordings of webinars. More information on UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), the network’s funders, can be found on their website.Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.

In this 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce chat to Mirjam Allik and Edit Gedeon about their recently published findings on the health of care experienced children in Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on Twitter.Follow CHiCS on Twitter

Alastair Leyland and Lia Demou talk to Elise Whitley about her work investigating the mental health of carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the UK.

Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce speak to Vittal Katikireddi from the SPHSU about his work examining waning of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Mike Green and Anna Pearce speak to Gillian Fergie and Caroline Vaczy about Creative Insights – their participatory project to gain young people’s perspectives on health inequalities.

Paul Henery, a Research Assistant at SPHSU, talks to Linsay Gray and Michael Green about his work on social inequalities in childhood unintentional injuries.

Ruth Dundas and Alastair Leyland talk to Evangelia Demou about her paper evaluating the impact of smoke-free prisons on exposure to second hand smoke.