Social Murder?
Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK
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2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7308-7 (ISBN)
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7308-7 (ISBN)
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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.
Life expectancy is about more than just health – it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improvement, life expectancy in the UK, USA and many other rich countries stopped increasing. For millions of people it actually declined. Despite hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, governments and officials remained silent.
Combining robust evidence with real-life stories, this book tells the story of how austerity policies caused this scandal. It argues that this shocking and tragic suffering was predictable, caused by a dereliction of duty from those in power.
The book concludes with an optimistic vision of what can be done to restore life expectancy improvements and reduce health inequalities.
Life expectancy is about more than just health – it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improvement, life expectancy in the UK, USA and many other rich countries stopped increasing. For millions of people it actually declined. Despite hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, governments and officials remained silent.
Combining robust evidence with real-life stories, this book tells the story of how austerity policies caused this scandal. It argues that this shocking and tragic suffering was predictable, caused by a dereliction of duty from those in power.
The book concludes with an optimistic vision of what can be done to restore life expectancy improvements and reduce health inequalities.
David Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Health Inequalities at the University of Glasgow and previously Programme Manager at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Gerry McCartney is Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at both Public Health Scotland and NHS Grampian.
1. Introduction
David
2. What happened in the UK
Frances
3. Why have mortality rates and life expectancy changed in the UK?
Paul
4. What happened to life expectancy in other countries, and why?
Moira
5. How did governments and agencies respond to the life expectancy crisis?
Ellen
6. What else is relevant for understanding the changed life expectancy trends?
David
7. What do we need to do?
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.11.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | No |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4473-7308-1 / 1447373081 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4473-7308-7 / 9781447373087 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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