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The relationship between austerity and food insecurity in the UK: A systematic review

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: In 2010, the UK government implemented austerity measures, involving reductions to public spending and welfare reform. We aimed to systematically review the relationship of austerity policies with food insecurity including foodbank use in the
Rosemary H Jenkins   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Excess mortality in England and Scotland in 2022: The long shadow of austerity and the return to an unacceptable pre-pandemic baseline

open access: yesJournal of Critical Public Health
Concerns exist that mortality remains elevated after COVID-19 peaks. This study examined whether mortality in England and Scotland in 2022 exceeded predictions from austerity-era (2012–2019) and pre-austerity (2001–2010) trends.
Daniel Bradford   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Fiduciary Activism From Below: Green Gentrification, Pension Finance, and the Possibility of Just Urban Futures

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2023
This article investigates the evolving concept of fiduciary duty and its role in Canadian public sector pension funds’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing practices. It contributes to the literature in the distinct but related fields of
Jessica Parish
doaj   +1 more source

Health Literacy Promotion and Its Institutional Arrangements: Rethinking collaborative health promotion in Thailand

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2021
This research explores institutional arrangements that govern health literacy promotion policies in Thailand since 2014. This study sets the main questions as what are the main institutional arrangements that governed health literacy promotion policies ...
Watcharabon Buddharaksa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Austerity Urbanism: From Redistributive transfers to debt based finance

open access: yesU.Porto Journal of Engineering, 2023
Austerity urbanism is an explanatory concept that alerts planners, politicians and society. The tripartite explanation of the concept of Austerity: as a result, solution, or even as a cause is part of the knowledge of this research article.
Jorge Afonso
doaj   +1 more source

The Essential Work of Crip Resistance: Demanding Dignity in Spain's Pandemic Austerity

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2021
This article considers crip resistance to the politics of austerity with which Spain's government has reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly a decade after the 15-M anti-austerity movement and its occupations.
Erika Rodriguez
doaj   +1 more source

The capture of democracy by the Austerity Policy: politics among the dollar signs

open access: yesRevista Videre, 2020
The present article intends to analyze the austerity policy as a political-economic phenomenon of a project of power to co-opt democracy itself. Through a critical-reflective analysis of the social and political phenomena that occurred since 2013, the ...
Diogo Bacha e Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Austerity, globalisation and alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article argues that austerity is not necessary or externally determined. It is an active class project and an ideological choice of elites and the powerful. There are alternatives to austerity.
Martell, Luke
core   +2 more sources

Austerity policy and child health in European countries: a systematic literature review

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background To analyse the impact of austerity measures taken by European governments as a response to the 2008 economic and financial crisis on social determinants on child health (SDCH), and child health outcomes (CHO).
Luis Rajmil   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point: Austerity Fiction and the Inequalities of Elsewhere

open access: yesStudi Irlandesi, 2019
After the financial collapse of 2008, Ireland imposed a program of fiscal consolidation that was designed to address the debt concerns of the nation. The implementation of austerity measures became the inverse to the high-flying years of the Celtic Tiger.
Jason Buchanan
doaj   +1 more source

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