Publications by authors named "A Cumbers"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has created a major crisis affecting population health, the economy, and society, particularly impacting vulnerable groups such as those in poverty, precarious employment, women, elderly individuals, and BAME communities.
- There is a wealth of literature suggesting that plural ownership could foster a more inclusive economy, but a comprehensive analysis of its actual impacts is lacking and necessary.
- This review will analyze evidence from various sectors, focusing on the effects of plural ownership on access to opportunities, distribution of benefits, poverty, and discrimination, using a thorough and systematic research approach.
Background: Non-urgent emergency department (ED) attendances are common among children. Primary care management may not only be more clinically appropriate, but may also improve patient experience and be more cost-effective.
Aim: To determine the impact on admissions, waiting times, antibiotic prescribing, and treatment costs of integrating a GP into a paediatric ED.
Introduction: Mortality rates in many high-income countries have changed from their long-term trends since around 2011. This paper sets out a protocol for testing the extent to which economic austerity can explain the variance in recent mortality trends across high-income countries.
Methods And Analysis: This is an ecological natural experiment study, which will use regression adjustment to account for differences in exposure, outcomes and confounding.
Objectives: To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text.
Study Design: Literature review and synthesis.
Methods: Existing definitions of health and health inequalities were identified, and their normative properties were extracted and then critically appraised.
Although there is a large literature examining the relationship between a wide range of political economy exposures and health outcomes, the extent to which the different aspects of political economy influence health, and through which mechanisms and in what contexts, is only partially understood. The areas in which there are few high-quality studies are also unclear. To systematically review the literature describing the impact of political economy on population health.
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