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Oct 1, 2024 | 
bmj.com | David Taylor-Robinson |Kate Pickett |Davara Bennett
David Taylor-Robinson, professor1, Kate E Pickett, professor2, Davara Bennett, researcher11Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK2Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UKCorrespondence to: D Taylor-Robinson [email protected] must act on its commitment to reduce child povertyPoverty is a disaster for children’s health.1 It causes poor child health outcomes and worsening physical and mental health.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kate Pickett |Richard Wilkinson
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela It would be hard to find anyone, including politicians anywhere on the political spectrum, who would not agree that a society should look after its children well – giving them a good start in life, protecting their interests and their health and wellbeing, and promoting their development and education.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Wilkinson |Kate Pickett
When we first wrote The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone, we had no idea it would become a bestseller. The book was filled with graphs and statistics, for one thing. But in the 15 years since it was published, we’ve been invited to give well over 1,000 lectures and conferences to tell people about our research. Our findings were clear then and are still true now. When economic inequality gets worse, so does our health and wellbeing.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Kate Pickett |Richard Wilkinson
Kate E Pickett, professor of epidemiology, Richard G Wilkinson, honorary visiting professorUniversity of York, York, UKIf the next UK government wants to heal our society and improve health, it can’t afford to ignore inequality and deprivation, write Kate E Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson“Our country has become poor and unhealthy, where a few rich, healthy people live.” How shocking that these words are describing the situation in the UK, by most accounts the sixth largest economy in the world.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Richard Wilkinson |Kate Pickett |Branko Milanovic |D. Sánchez-Ancochea
This book is a mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the social problems inequality creates. Picket and Wilkinson use descriptive statistics to show how more unequal societies tend to be more violent, less trustful, less educated, and suffer from other social ills. They demonstrate that inequality does not only affect the poor but everyone in society.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
jccpe.utpjournals.press | Saamah Abdallah |Rachel Laurence |Kate Pickett |Lisa Hough-Stewart
Rather than specifying concrete policies, the wellbeing economy approach is often presented as a process, involving stages such as developing a vision, creating a strategy and evaluation (Wellbeing Economy Alliance, 2021). Rather than reproduce this process here, we identify a set of six ‘ways of working’ which underpin the wellbeing economy approach, often running through the entire process.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
yorkshirepost.co.uk | Kate Pickett
Once again our latest Child of the North report, ‘Addressing Education and Health Inequity’ has shown children across the North of England are being shortchanged on their futures. We know already that children in the North of England are more likely to be growing up in poverty, 34 per cent of children compared to 28 per cent in the rest of the country, but now the evidence shows that children have been further disadvantaged with less education funding in its crumbling schools.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
msn.com | Kate Pickett
Fourteen years ago Richard Wilkinson and I published our book The Spirit Level. Arguably, the onset of the financial crash should have been an auspicious moment for our work to hit the bookshelves. Just as old economic certainties seemed to have been discarded, we were arguing for a new approach to macroeconomic policy focused on reducing inequality, improving human wellbeing and safeguarding the planet.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Brae Anne McArthur |Dillon T. Browne |Kate Pickett |Michelle Brooks-Ucheaga
1. BackgroundThe stigma associated with mental illness has wide-reaching and detrimental effects on those who experience it, including depression, low self-esteem and broader inequalities in life chances (1–3). The past 30 years has seen an intensification of anti-stigma campaigns across Europe seeking to target and ameliorate these harmful consequences.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Ida Kubiszewski |Caroline Ward |Kate Pickett |Robert Costanza
ARTICLEThe complex relationships between economic inequality and biodiversity: A scoping review format_quote CITE Biodiversity change and increasing within-country economic inequalities represent two of the greatest global challenges of the Anthropocene. The most marginalized in society are often the most vulnerable to biodiversity change but there is no consensus on the relationships between biodiversity change and rising economic inequalities.
