15 minutes on Health Inequalities: Recent Episodes
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
New podcast series from the Inequalities Programme at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Countries have introduced a range of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical distancing measures may have adverse consequences on health, and these may be more pronounced in certain population groups. This means that the measures introduced in response to the pandemic may increase health inequalities. Alastair Leyland (twitter.com/AlastairLeyland) and Anna Pearce from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow (twitter.com/theSPHSU), talk to Vittal Katikireddi (twitter.com/vkatikireddi, from the same Unit) about his recent publication (led by Margaret Douglas, University of Edinburgh) “Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response”.
Public health agencies and governments around the world have acted in response to the ever-growing numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. However, deaths from many causes occur every day and are not distributed evenly across societies. How do deaths from COVID-19 compare to deaths due to inequalities, and how do the government’s responses compare? Anna Pearce and Linsay Gray (twitter.com/GrayLinsay) from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow (twitter.com/theSPHSU), talk to Ruth Dundas (twitter.com/RDundas0, from the same Unit) about recent blog post 'Prioritising population health - contrasting UK government responses to pandemic'.