How Politics Makes Us Sick
Neoliberal Epidemics
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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