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| Year | Date | Title | Summary | Source | File size |
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| 2009 | June 22 | Tobacco and social deprivation briefing | Social deprivation and health inequalities are the result of many interrelated factors. However, smoking has increasingly come to be linked with poverty. In 1961 there was no difference in lung cancer mortality between social classes, but by the 1980s a man in an unskilled manual occupation was more than four times as likely to die of lung cancer as a professional and twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease; for women there is a threefold difference for lung cancer and a fourfold difference for heart disease1. | ASH Scotland | 95kb |
| 2009 | May 29 | Child poverty in Scotland: taking the next steps | This Viewpoint discusses progress made in Scotland to end child poverty. Child poverty has fallen in Scotland, but evidence from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests that the current rate of progress will not achieve the 2020 target to eradicate child poverty. The authors outline what the Scottish Government needs to do to reach this target. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 218kb |
| 2009 | May 6 | Drinking in the UK: an exploration of trends | Summary Rising alcohol consumption is a cause for concern. This evidence review summarises interesting trends in drinking in the UK and discusses possible causes. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 87kb |
| 2009 | May 6 | Drinking in the UK: an exploration of trends | Full report This report describes the methods and findings of a systematic review of research relevant to trends in alcohol consumption over the last 20 to 30 years in the UK, and a brief assessment of the factors that may contribute to the observed trends. The review assesses the number, types and quality of existing research studies and synthesises the findings to evaluate alcohol drinking trends in the UK. Possible explanations for observed trends are put forward. Implications for policy are discussed along with recommendations for future research. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 5.3mb |
| 2009 | April 27 | Scottish Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development Programme Bulletin | This is the second bulletin in a series of newsletters to highlight the on-going and future
activities of the programme. This edition will focus on Long Terms Conditions and the related mental health impacts. | Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health | 817kb |
| 2009 | April 21 | Child wellbeing and child poverty: Where the UK stands in the European table - Spring 2009 | This briefing draws on the results of a new league table of child wellbeing in European countries. Produced by researchers from the University of York, the league table covers 29 European countries (EU 27 countries plus Norway and Iceland). It includes 43 separate indicators, summarised in seven domains of child wellbeing. The Netherlands comes top of the table of overall child wellbeing, followed by Norway and Sweden. The UK came 24th, well below countries of similar affluence. Only Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta do worse. | Child Poverty Action Group | 120kb |
| 2009 | April 3 | ASH Scotland response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on achieving smoke-free mental health services in Scotland | ASH Scotland welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government’s consultation on achieving smoke-free mental health services within Scotland. Smoke-free policies are aimed at protecting people from exposure to second-hand smoke, and may also have the added benefit of helping smokers to quit. But the exemption of designated rooms in psychiatric hospitals and units from Scotland’s smoke-free legislation has meant that many patients and staff remain exposed to second-hand smoke. ASH Scotland firmly believes that we must end this real and serious inequality faced by mental health service users. We fully support the decision to review the exemption and call for the regulations to be amended to offer mental health service users and staff the same smoke-free environment enjoyed within other health care services. | ASH Scotland | 113kb |
| 2009 | March 31 | Ethnicity, Gender and Poverty in the UK | Gender and ethnicity remain two of the most important factors influencing individuals economic well being. However, a person's likelihood of being in poverty cannot simply be 'read off' from their gender or ethnicity. This briefing paper analyses the statistics relating to gender and ethnicity and highlights the complex intersection of the two. Some of the implications for policy makers are also drawn out. | The Poverty Alliance | 130kb |
| 2009 | February 25 | Poverty, inequality and policy since 1997 | Summary This research shows what effect policies introduced since 1997 have had on reducing poverty and inequality. It offers a considered assessment of impacts over a decade:
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 93kb |
| 2009 | February 18 | Ending child poverty in a changing economy | This research shows what effect current policies will have on child poverty by 2010 and 2020. Taking account of the recession, it estimates the costs of meeting the government target of halving child poverty by 2010 and eliminating it by 2020 using the most recent data available. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 193kb |