A scientific paper published in the BMJ Open made international headlines by claiming that austerity policies led to 120,000 deaths in the UK (Watkins et al. 2017).
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Commentary on "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance" by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs.
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Department of Global Health Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Background: The Covid pandemic and its aftermath have triggered new alarm and social unrest across the Global South over the deepening international debt crisis that now threatens to derail Universal Health Coverage (UHC), other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future pandemic preparedness, and global warming mitigation. The recent Globalization and Health article by Alex Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs (May 2024), "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance", offers a meticulously quantified rendering of the social costs imposed by the crisis and takes aim at IMF solutions. They advocate for a rejection of IMF austerity programs and offer a valuable prescription for change through the International Labor Organization's "Universal Social Protection" concept.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSecuring the Right to Health of Asylum Seekers: A Small-Scale Qualitative Case Study in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Health Hum Rights
December 2024
Former PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield and a part-time lecturer and research associate at South-East European Research Centre, City College, University of York Europe Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Deploying legal analysis and a small-scale qualitative dataset, this paper considers the right to health of asylum seekers, as a subgroup of distress migrants, in Greece in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter. The public health care system in Greece is operating under significant constraints stemming from austerity policies. We analyze the legal entitlements of asylum seekers as found in Greek and international law and confirm a significant gap between the right to health in theory and the right to health in practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExplanations for higher-than-expected all-cause mortality from April 2021: A scoping review.
Public Health
January 2025
Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK; School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Objectives: Many countries have continued to experience a higher-than-expected number of deaths following the peaks in mortality observed in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This review aims to identify the different explanations proposed for sustained higher-than-expected mortality beyond the first pandemic year.
Study Design: Scoping review.
Geopsychiatry: Climate change, migration, and mental health.
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Geopsychiatry, a newly emerging discipline within psychiatry, examines the influence of geopolitical determinants on mental health and mental illness. Geopolitical determinants include conflict and wars, global austerity, climate change, public health crises (such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)), and migration. This study focuses on the two significant areas of climate change and migration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe British NHS at 75: Past, Contemporary, and Future Challenges.
Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv
January 2025
Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.
This article assesses how and why the National Health Service (NHS) has remained at the forefront of British politics and society for 75 years amid significant economic pressures, organizational strain, shifting ideological trends, ongoing reforms, and an unprecedented public health emergency. The postwar "years of consensus" evolved into alleged decline and ostensible neglect during the 1980s, while New Labour sought to rejuvenate this core public service after 1997, featuring investment and often controversial reforms that challenged the party's social democratic values. Amid the New Labour era, NHS powers filtered down to devolved administrations, while from 2008 retrenchment and austerity ensued, fueled by global recession.
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