Luke Munford
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Applied/health economist @HOPE_UoM University of Manchester. Proud to be from Shildon!!
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10-06-2013 08:58:26
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This year's NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) #ARCseminar series explores how health inequity cuts across life stages & places in 3 webinars:
👣 8 May: Health inequalities in early life
📍 5 June: Regional health inequalities
🧓 10 July: Health inequalities in later life
Book: eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs-n…
Really interesting report, and much food for thought - particularly looking at Matt Sutton et all work on Manchester health devo
Levelling up report card: how the Tories’ pledges stack up today.
Luke Munford explains that 'healthy life expectancy is trending downwards, and so we definitely cannot increase HLE by 2035 based on these trends. Things are getting worse, not better.”
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
Levelling Up - what’s the verdict? Not good when it comes to health Luke Munford & our Health Equity North work quoted in this assessment by Guardian news Kate Pickett Professor Clare Bambra amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
🎙️ All this and more on our Pod's Own Country podcast featuring Stephanie Peacock Ian McMillan Luke Munford and Toby Brown
pod.fo/e/22b7ca
Our new paper comparing the clinical practice and prescribing safety of locum and permanent doctors is out today
BMC Medicine. We show that locum doctors are not less clinically competent or practice less safely than permanent doctors. full paper @ rdcu.be/dCDzW
Our #UPNorth series of public events with The RSA drew to a close last night, with a fascinating discussion on 'Why are health outcomes so grim up north?'
Thanks to the wonderful panellists, to Jennifer Williams for chairing once again, and to The University of Manchester for hosting.
Our Academic Co-Director Luke Munford is speaking today at a The University of Manchester & N8 Research Partnership event exploring how place-based inequalities can be addressed to ensure a fairer and healthier future for communities across the country events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g2…
Fantastic to see new in-depth evidence on the impact of Greater Manchester devolution being published in Social Science and Medicine today. It investigates the whole system impact of the reform across 98 outcome measures. The Health Foundation NIHR Research
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
🤝 Social prescribing connects patients to VCSE organisations, via link workers
🩺 But are these workers in the areas that need them most?
🔍 A more targeted approach is needed to match resources to need
👇 Read more in Paul Wilson's (paul wilson) article; blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/health/2024/03…
My Institute for Fiscal Studies colleagues have today published a great page full of interactive charts, maps and data on income, poverty and inequality in the UK - do check it out!
ifs.org.uk/living-standar…
It's less than a week until our final #UPNorth event.
Hosted by The University of Manchester, join this panel discussion about the North's poor #health outcomes and how local action is helping to make a real difference.
📅 26 March, 5:30-8pm
📌 AMBS, M15 6PB
Register: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g2…
Our Academic Co-Director Luke Munford will be speaking at this The University of Manchester & N8 Research Partnership event next Tuesday, exploring how place-based inequalities can be addressed to ensure a fairer and healthier future for communities across the country
Sign up at events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g2…
'The UK is a wealthy country, but it's also quite an unfair country - our resources are not equally distributed' explains Christine Camacho.
Deaths of despair – deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide – are more prevalent in the North than the rest of the country.
Read our analysis with Health Equity North and @OfficalUoM that examines these inequalities 👇
bit.ly/43fWOFP
