UK welfare reforms threaten health of the most vulnerable

2025/03/25 by Gerry McCartney, Katherine E. Smith, David Walsh · 1 voice · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Employment and Welfare Studies #Global Health Care Issues #Health disparities and outcomes

paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.r593

openalex publication_date 2025/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy

Citations

• To get Britain working we need to get Britain healthy

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• Austerity policies and falling life expectancy in disadvantaged areas in Scotland: a pre-pandemic decomposition analysis

Discussions

• The rise of people too ill to work is an 'austerity fuelled health crisis' according to the BMJ, and further cuts will worsen the problem: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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