The effects of public health policies on health inequalities: a review of reviews. Thomson et al, 2017.
“...fiscal and regulation policies were more beneficial for reducing or preventing health inequalities than educational campaigns.”
#SDoH #PEoH #HiAP thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…
“...fiscal and regulation policies were more beneficial for reducing or preventing health inequalities than educational campaigns.”
#SDoH #PEoH #HiAP thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…
“...how broad policy initiatives for tackling inequalities in health that start off with social determinants (upstream) approach drift downstream to largely individual lifestyle factors, as well as the general trend of investing a the individual level.”
Expensive health promotion campaigns have failed repeatedly while substantial evidence demonstrates a clear link between poor health and social factors such as unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunity, bad housing and community breakdown. #SDoH
Poverty is one of the most pervasive risk factors underlying poor health, but is rarely targeted to improve health. #SDoH
Better health outcomes in states that enact higher tax credits for the poor, higher minimum wage laws & reject right-to-work laws that limit union power. These policies increase the incomes of low wage and working-class families, not the wealthiest. #SDoH
“Many Americans who work don’t make enough money or receive good enough benefits in the jobs that are available to them. A whole bunch of other problems flow from this that relate to family stability, housing, healthcare, childcare & food security.” #SDoH
Increasing Minimum Wages Do More to Reduce Recidivism Than Prisoner Reentry Programs.
“The wages of crime are on average higher than comparable opportunities for low-skilled labor in the legal labor market.” #HiAP #SDoH #PEoH papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
“The wages of crime are on average higher than comparable opportunities for low-skilled labor in the legal labor market.” #HiAP #SDoH #PEoH papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
“Our economy segments people into classes brutally & unfairly at birth and then distributes the vast bounty it produces in a harshly unequal manner. Higher growth & a slightly more skilled workforce are not going to change this.” #SDoH #HiAP @jamesykwak baselinescenario.com/2018/02/02/hey…
Higher minimum wage is linked to reductions in mortality rates for diabetes, diseases of the circulatory digestive system, heart attacks & deaths due to external factors. A 10% increase in minimum wage increases life expectancy by 0.44 years. #SDoH #HiAP publichealthpost.org/research/highe…
Increases in income haven’t nearly kept up with rising costs of living for poorer and many middle-class households. #SDoH #HiAP #PEoH governing.com/topics/urban/g…
Breaking Down the Benefits of Investing in the Opportunity Zones Program. #SDoH #HiAP #PEoH enterprisecommunity.org/blog/2018/02/b…
“Dropping the term safety net is part of the human services groups' broader strategy to get the public and policymakers to think of human services as investments in the community that boost the economy, reduce crime and improve public health.” #SDoH #HiAP governing.com/topics/health-…
“Raising the minimum wage increases earnings growth at the bottom of the distribution, those effects persist & indeed grow in magnitude over several years...there's little indication that people will lose their jobs as a result of the minimum wage” #SDoH census.gov/content/dam/Ce…
“The power corporations wield over labor markets is no longer a theoretical curiosity. We think it’s clear it’s a major source of our economic malaise.” #SDoH #PEoH vox.com/the-big-idea/2…
“If there’s a type of economic development program that seems likely to worsen disparities, it’s one that favors capital and technology over labor.” #SDoH #HiAP governing.com/topics/finance…
“If it were true that the economic system we have today can’t even bring our most poverty-stricken workers to a semi-decent standard of living, then why would we defend it? That would be straightforward evidence that we need a better system.” #SDoH theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…
