Peter Hall

Nov 25, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Aleksandra Appleton |Amy Zimmer |Peter Hall

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. To combat mental health challenges in schools, New York City Council members want to expand support for student wellness clubs and other peer-to-peer programs. Under one proposal, the city would develop a pilot program to bring mental health professionals into middle and high school wellness clubs, council members discussed at a Monday hearing.

Sep 9, 2023 | queenslandcountrylife.com.au | Peter Hall

Celebrating Queensland's red meat industryThere is much to celebrate in the great network that we have in the red meat industry. Jostling around with some of the more than 400,000 people who streamed through the gates of this year's 144th Ekka, was the perfect way to do that. A highlight for me was the collegiality (and the great spread of food!) at the Ekka's Agforce Red Meat Dinner.

Aug 21, 2023 | localmatters.co.nz | Peter Hall

I am a man, and have been all my life, except for when I was a boy. Up until now I hadn’t thought of this as a disadvantage, until I spent a depressing morning reading men’s health statistics. It is well established that men lead shorter, more disease-ridden lives than women. Between the ages of 50 and 75 years, male death rates are 30 percent higher and overall life expectancy is several years less.

Jun 10, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Lucy M. Barnes |Peter Hall

ConclusionIn this article we explore cross-national variation in the sources of socioeconomic inequalities in health. To a body of work often focused on the effects of income inequality, we bring a perspective that emphasizes how inequalities in access to a wider range of economic and social resources bear on health outcomes.