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Social murder? : austerity and life expectancy in the UK / David Walsh and Gerry McCartney.
De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2024 Available online
De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2024- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walsh, David, 1949- author.
- McCartney, Gerry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life expectancy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Combining robust evidence with real-life stories, this book reveals the shocking impact of austerity policies on life expectancy and offers an optimistic vision of what can be done to restore life expectancy and reduce health inequality.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Social Murder?: Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK
- Copyright information
- Discliamer
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Authors' note
- Michael
- 1 Introduction
- Rachel
- 2 What happened in the UK?
- What happened - and what should have happened
- When did the trends change?
- Who was most affected?
- Income
- Age, sex and cause of death
- Beyond measures of mortality and life expectancy
- The impact of COVID-19 on mortality rates
- What does all this mean for health inequalities in the UK?
- Frances
- 3 Why have mortality rates and life expectancy changed in the UK?
- What is austerity?
- The components of austerity in the UK: what, where and how much?
- How does austerity impact on health?
- The evidence (1): austerity and poverty
- Increased poverty in the UK
- Poverty and health
- The evidence (2): austerity and other health 'determinants'
- The evidence (3): austerity, illness and death
- Poor mental health
- Other diseases and mortality/life expectancy
- The evidence (4): austerity and child health
- The evidence (5): 'qualitative' studies of the impact of austerity on health
- Is it only about austerity?
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- What was suggested?
- Is there anything in it?
- Drug-related deaths
- Deaths from dementia and Alzheimer's disease
- Deaths from influenza ('flu)
- Obesity
- Demographic and methodological issues
- The 'tragic social consequences' of austerity
- Paul
- 4 What happened to life expectancy in other countries, and why?.
- Trends in life expectancy and mortality across countries and the role of austerity
- The challenge of assessing and measuring austerity
- The impacts of austerity across countries
- Germany, Australia and the Netherlands
- Germany
- Australia
- The Netherlands
- The case of the US
- The shift to neoliberalism in the 1980s
- From bad to worse: life expectancy trends after 2010
- Austerity in the US
- Iceland, Greece, Spain and the Republic of Ireland
- Iceland
- Greece
- Republic of Ireland
- Spain
- Japan and South Korea
- Conclusion
- Moira
- 5 How did governments and agencies respond to the life expectancy crisis?
- The challenge of identifying a change in life expectancy trends
- A timeline of events
- The emergence of influenza as the key explanation for the 'mortality spike'
- The response of public health agencies
- England
- Scotland
- Wales and Northern Ireland
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- Think-tanks and academics
- What is behind the different interpretations of the changed life expectancy trends?
- Government and political responses
- Avoiding the question
- Demonisation of people on social security benefits and blaming individuals for the trends
- Arguments that the evidence of the causes of the stalling is uncertain
- Spurious arguments
- Ellen
- 6 What else is relevant for understanding the changed life expectancy trends?
- Obesity and the 'obesogenic environment'
- Increasing obesity
- The causes of increasing obesity
- How much of the stalled life expectancy trends does obesity explain?
- What impact will obesity have in the future?
- COVID-19
- The direct impacts of COVID-19 infection
- Differential COVID-19 exposure
- Differential vulnerability to COVID-19
- The effects of disruption to healthcare services
- The effects of lockdown measures.
- The long reach of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Inflation
- Background to increasing prices
- How unequally has inflation been felt?
- What has the impact of inflation on mortality been?
- David
- 7 What do we need to do?
- Narrowing inequalities
- Narrowing inequalities - and undoing austerity
- The cost of change
- What now?
- Appendix: Summary of the causal evidence that austerity has led to the mortality trend changes
- Notes and references
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Appendix
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781447373117
- 1447373111
- 9781447373094
- 144737309X
- 9781447373100
- 1447373103
- OCLC:
- 1479377935
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