Standing in the affluent part of Glasgow, you can expect the people around you to live for 80 years. On the other side of town, they only live 54 years. The difference in only a few kilometres, but the factors in society and the environment around people can strongly determine their health. The determinants of health give us an insight into the differences we see around the world, and across town
Sources:
Books –
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. Charles Montgomery
Reports –
History, politics and vulnerability: explaining excess mortality in Scotland and Glasgow. Glasgow Centre for Population Health. https://www.gcph.co.uk/assets/0000/5586/History_politics_and_vulnerability.pdf
Youtube –
‘Health Inequalities and The Glasgow Effect’
Websites –
Social Determinants of Health. HealthyPeople.gov. https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health
Indoor Air Pollution. Our World In Data. https://ourworldindata.org/indoor-air-pollution
Women and girls. Right to Education. https://www.right-to-education.org/girlswomen
Articles –
As Scotland’s ‘Trainspotting’ Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/world/europe/scotland-heroin-deaths.html
Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-storm-austerity-behind-130000-deaths-uk-ippr-report
Air pollution kills 1.2 mn Indians in a year, third biggest cause of death. Business Standard. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/air-pollution-kills-1-2-mn-indians-in-a-year-third-biggest-cause-of-death-119040300300_1.html
A Short Walk in the Wakhan Corridor. Outside Online. https://www.outsideonline.com/1885016/short-walk-wakhan-corridor
Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries. Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute. https://doc-research.org/2018/06/mortality-life-expectancy-post-communist/
