profgoldbergJul 5, 2023

This is unimaginably important. Read the 🧵 for the awful details. So excited to read this.

#PHEthx #PHLaw #HistPubHealth #SocEpi #LegalEpi #StructuralViolence #HistoryMatters

(For more on the history of anti-Black racism and TB in particular, be sure to check out “Infectious Fear” by Samuel Kelton Roberts)

H/t @krisnelson

From: @wrigleyfield
https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/110662513906585293

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (@[email protected])

New paper w Aja Antoine-Jones, James Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Chris Muller "Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933" tells us two new things about the staggering racial inequity in this era (cont'd) #demography #sociology #history #RacialDisparities #mortality #EpidemiologicalTransition #HealthEquity #HistoricalDemography https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.4

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Show threadDaniel S. GoldbergDec 12, 2022

h/t @[email protected] cc @[email protected] @[email protected]

#PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthPolicy #PrioritySetting #FundamentalCauseTheory #PolicyStudies #HealthPolicy #SocEpi #LegalEpi #RootCauses #SDoH #LawIsASDoH

Show threadDaniel S. GoldbergDec 12, 2022

But of course, as anyone who knows literally a-thing about the #SDoH and #SocEpi knows, the primary reasons for our abysmal LE outcomes (and devastating health inequities to boot!) are actually not primarily driven by health care services AT ALL.

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Dr Emily T MurrayNov 15, 2022

Recent ONS report that in the past 3 years, the number of people aged 50 to 64 years who were economically inactive because of long-term sickness rose by 183,000

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/economicinactivity/articles/halfamillionmorepeopleareoutofthelabourforcebecauseoflongtermsickness/2022-11-10)

We think reducing the gap in #health #inequalities across the UK could make a dent in this inactivity issue.

Read the report* here: https://ilcuk.org.uk/health-and-place-how-levelling-up-health-can-keep-older-workers-working/

*written by the International Longevity Center, based on our research.

#research #socepi #employment #labourmarket

Half a million more people are out of the labour force because of long-term sickness - Office for National Statistics

Between June and August 2022, around 2.5 million people were economically inactive because of long-term sickness, up from around 2 million in 2019