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    Theorising health inequalities: Introduction to a double special issue

    Katherine E Smith, Ted Schrecker in Social Theory & Health (2015)

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    How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra (2015)

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    Conclusion: Their Scarcity and Our Political Cure

    In our concluding chapter, we outline some common themes shared across the four neoliberal epidemics that we have identified, offering some reflections on the evidence of the ill-health effects of neoliberalis...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    Obesity: How Politics Makes Us Fat

    We start with an overview of our first neoliberal epidemic—obesity. Over the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in countries such as the UK and the US, with over 20 and 30 per cent (respectively) of adu...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    Austerity: How Politics Has Pulled Away Our Safety Net

    David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu (2013) introduce their book on austerity and its health consequences with the case of a stroke-paralysed man with limited ability to walk who was cut off disability benefits by A...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    Introduction: Politics and Health

    In this introductory chapter we examine how health varies internationally among rich countries and the social, economic and political reasons for these differences. We also introduce the concept of welfare sta...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    Insecurity: How Politics Gets Under Our Skin

    In this chapter we focus on the neoliberal epidemic of insecurity. Here we argue that neoliberalism has made the labour market and the world of work far less secure and consequently more stressful and health d...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    Inequality: How Politics Divides and Rules Us

    Why care about inequality? Within the small local authority area of Stockton-on-Tees (population 192,000), the difference in male life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas in 2014 was 16 years ...

    Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra in How Politics Makes Us Sick (2015)

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    GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

    Ted Schrecker in Social Indicators Research (1997)

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    MONEY MATTERS; A REALITY CHECK, WITH HELP FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF

    This article provides a qualified defence of economic indicators of human well being. Purchasing power obviously matters as a prerequisite for obtaining basic needs; abundant examples of human behaviour even i...

    Ted Schrecker in Social Indicators Research (1997)