socioeconomic differences

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School children in Great Yarmouth sitting in the cloakroom

Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health

15 Nov 2022

How rich or poor young people think they are compared to their friendship group is linked to wellbeing and even bullying during the shift between...

Public health experts urge government to put health at centre of levelling up agenda

10 Dec 2021

Health needs to be at the heart of the Government’s levelling up agenda, say researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle. The team...

Autism rates have increased and show differences in ethnic minorities and links to social disadvantage

29 Mar 2021

Around one in 57 (1.76%) children in the UK is on the autistic spectrum, significantly higher than previously reported, according to a study of more...

Five lads walk home from school through Myton Fields, Warwick, Credit: Robin Stott

Socio-economic status predicts UK boys’ development of essential thinking skills

21 Jul 2020

A comparison of children in Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK has found that British boys’ development of key thinking skills, known as ‘executive...

Opinion: Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas

27 Nov 2019

Deprivation affects men and women differently, writes Olivia Remes, PhD candidate at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, with men more likely...

Women working in the rice paddy fields in Odisha, one of the the poorest regions of India

Tracking inequality in India: the story of a pioneer

04 Jul 2017

India’s booming business centres and gleaming shopping malls mask a grimmer reality. While one section of the population gets richer, another section...

Russian President Medvedev meets with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund

Study finds little change in the IMF’s policy advice, despite rhetoric of reform

24 May 2016

Researchers describe IMF as having an “escalating commitment to hypocrisy”, as study reveals that strict lending conditions have returned to pre-...

Opinion: Obesity: stop accusing the poor of making bad choices

09 Mar 2016

Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discusses obesity and the influence of socioeconomic circumstances in shaping food choices...

Young men of Sierra Leone bury Ebola casualties

IMF lending undermined healthcare provision in Ebola-stricken West Africa

22 Dec 2014

Researchers criticise reforms advocated by IMF for chronically under-funded and insufficiently staffed health systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra...

Deprivation responsible for 450 breast cancer deaths each year

04 Nov 2013

Deprivation could be responsible for around 450 deaths from breast cancer every year in England as women in lower income groups are likely to be...