15 Minutes on Health Inequalities: Recent Episodes
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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.
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Timed to coincide with European Public Health Week’s daily theme on “No health without mental health”, 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.
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Timed to coincide with 2022 European Public Health Week’s daily theme on “Vaccination as key prevention strategy”, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce speak to Vittal Katikireddi from the SPHSU about his work examining waning of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Timed to coincide with 2022 European Public Health Week’s daily theme on “A healthy and health literate youth”, Mike Green and Anna Pearce speak to Gillian Fergie and Caroline Vaczy from the SPHSU about Creative Insights – their participatory project to gain young people’s perspectives on health inequalities.
Details on this work can be found on the Creative Insights website, which includes a Zine and Video co-created with the young people.
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In this episode Paul Henery, a Research Assistant at SPHSU, talks to Linsay Gray and Michael Green about his work on social inequalities in childhood unintentional injuries. Read the open access journal article.
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Marking European Public Health Week ‘Leaving no one behind’ Day, this special edition reflects back over 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities first year of podcasts and looks forward to some research that the Inequalities in Health programme will be covering over the forthcoming year. It features Alastair Leyland, Linsay Gray, Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce.
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In this latest episode, 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.
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In this episode Andy Baxter from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow talks to Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce (from the same Unit) about his evaluation of the English teenage pregnancy strategy. Read Andy's open access journal article.
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In this latest episode, Linsay Gray and Anna Pearce talk to Michael Green about his recent paper evaluating the impacts of tobacco control policies on inequalities in young people’s smoking in the UK.
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You can also access Mike’s other papers on smoking and e-cigarettes (mentioned in the podcast) here:
Socioeconomic patterning of vaping by smoking status among UK adults and youth
Youth vaping and smoking and parental vaping: a panel survey
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In our first podcast of 2021, Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce talk to colleagues Denise Brown and Mirjam Allik about an exciting project they have recently embarked upon - the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) study.
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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 and Anna Pearce from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, talk to Vittal Katikireddi (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”.
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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 from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, talk to Ruth Dundas (from the same Unit) about recent blog post 'Prioritising population health - contrasting UK government responses to pandemic'.
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In this episode of ‘15 minutes on Health Inequalities’, Anna Pearce talks to Ruth Dundas and Alastair Leyland about a WHO Europe report she wrote, with fellow authors at the University of Liverpool, on options for reducing inequities in health in the early years. The views expressed in this podcast are those of Anna and not the WHO.
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