[…] quality of life levels to revert or stagnate despite persistently decreased health. Adaptation has implications for the use of subjective quality of life indicators when quantifying the impact of health changes or the benefits from new medical technologies. As both the impact from ill health and the benefit from new interventions might be disease- […]
[…] in Britain have significant mental health advantages over their White majority counterparts, but the reasons for these differences have not been adequately explored. This work analyses the impact of neighbourhood characteristics, measured by socioeconomic deprivation; crime; living conditions; ethnic density and parenting behaviour on the mental health of young people. To determine the impact […]
[…] behaviour in the face of the health risks and partly because of restrictions introduced by governments. In this paper we show that the scale of the economic impact of the COVID shock in the UK is very different for different people. We find substantial impacts on labour markets, but these impacts do not […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on people’s health and their livelihoods. What started as a health crisis rapidly turned into an economic emergency, with government taking unprecedented action to protect the nation. Despite these efforts, by mid-March 2021 the pandemic had led to 119,000 excess deaths in the UK and in […]
[…] prevent its spread all helped reduce the negative mental health impacts of the pandemic. Public Health Wales commissioned Alma Economics to review the research evidence on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated government measures on the mental well-being of babies, children, and young people. ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
[…] prevent its spread all helped reduce the negative mental health impacts of the pandemic. Public Health Wales commissioned Alma Economics to review the research evidence on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated government measures on the mental well-being of babies, children, and young people. ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
[…] of 17,304 UK addresses. The pilot included six experiments testing different fieldwork protocols designed to increase response rates. Only two of the six treatments had an appreciable impact: variations in the contact sequence (inclusion of a pre-notification letter and/or an additional (third) reminder) and the offer of an early bird bonus incentive of £10 […]
This chapter reviews the evidence of the impact on children’s education from the school closures, implemented over the period March-June 2020, as part of the lockdown measures put in place to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus. The sources of information are surveys of the adult population, parents/guardians of school-age children, teachers and […]
[…] including prevalence, risk correlates, and impacts are very scarce. Therefore, it was aimed to provide recent evidence on prevalence and psychiatric correlates of neighbourhood satisfaction and its impact on individual behaviours and life aspects in adolescents in a national and population-based setting.MethodData were retrieved and analysed in the UK Longitudinal Household Survey in 2011–2012. […]