Economic Justice & Health Group Meeting
Join us for a meeting to find out everything you need to know about our plan to bring about an Economy centred on Health and Wellbeing.
Freedom day: Unequal freedoms = health injustice
“Freedom day” is clearly not about freedom from the risk of illness, death and destitution. It’s a continuation of the very system of governance that created avoidable public health harms from COVID-19 and the economic crisis. The premature ending of the public...Economic Justice & Health Group Meeting
The Economic Justice & Health Group meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 7pm. If you’re interested in getting involved, please get in touch with Economic Justice Campaigner Siddhartha Mehta – siddharthamehta@medact.orgEconomic Justice & Health Group Meeting
The Economic Justice & Health Group meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 7pm. If you’re interested in getting involved, please get in touch with Economic Justice Campaigner Siddhartha Mehta – siddharthamehta@medact.orgEconomic Justice & Health Group Meeting
The Economic Justice & Health Group meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 7pm. If you’re interested in getting involved, please get in touch with Economic Justice Campaigner Siddhartha Mehta – siddharthamehta@medact.orgThe unprotected many and the protected few: Working towards a health justice approach to future pandemic preparedness.
In our latest blog, Siddhartha Mehta and Sreeshna Jagadeesan discuss how we can work towards a health justice approach to future pandemic preparedness.
Solidarity statement – Inadequate NHS pay
Our Economic Justice & Health Group have written a solidarity statement with health and social care workers opposing the proposed pay plan for NHS staff outlined by the Government.
The UK’s covid-19 response underscores the danger of a “health versus wealth” approach
Members of our Economic Justice & Health Group write in the BMJ discussing their experiences as frontline health workers during the pandemic, where they have had to treat both COVID-19 & the symptoms of harmful economic policies. Their article also draws upon the findings of our latest briefing paper, ‘Health Versus Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19’.
Economic Justice & Health Group ─ March Big Meeting
A meeting for new and existing supporters to find out how to take part in Medact’s work towards economic change that centres health and wellbeing
Health Versus Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19
In this new briefing, our Economic Justice & Health Group shine a light on the UK government’s assumption that the health of the public and the economy are in tension.
Health Versus Wealth? UK Economic Policy and Public Health During COVID-19
The pandemic has taken a massive toll on both lives and livelihoods in the UK. Yet this outcome could have been prevented.