Description
Book SynopsisHealth in hard times is a vital and important review of the impact of austerity on the wellbeing of the UK. Case studies from Stockton-on-Tees, home to some of the starkest health divides, are combined with a holistic review of the repercussions of budget cuts and welfare reforms to provide a portrait of inequalities in the country's health today.
Trade Review“The findings of this excellent research team regarding the political and economic impacts in the North East will chime with practitioners in other social contexts.” Paul Norman, University of Leeds
“The combination of an interdisciplinary lens and quantitative and qualitative data creates a much needed but shocking depiction of the impacts of austerity on social and health inequalities at a local level. The book illuminates how austerity as a political discourse is being used to justify deeply pernicious and deliberate shredding of the public welfare fabric.” Jennie Popay, Lancaster University
Table of ContentsForeword ~ Jamie Pearce; Introduction ~ Clare Bambra; Austerity Then and Now ~ Michael Langthorne; Placing Health in Austerity ~ Ramjee Bhandari; How the Other Half Live ~ Kayleigh Garthwaite; Divided Lives ~ Kate Mattheys; Minding the Gap ~ Nasima Ahkter, Kate Mattheys, Jon Warren and Adetayo Kasim; Mothers in an Age of Austerity ~ Amy Greer Murphy; Conclusion ~ Clare Bambra.
