SCOTLAND SAYS MAKE POVERTY HISTORY: ONE WORLD; the Appalling Statistics That Spell out Why We Must Act800 million people will not get enough to eat today. pounds 420 worth of food is thrown out by every adult in Britain every year. 50,000 people die of hunger and preventable illness every...
Youth homelessness remains a real issue in Scotland and young people supported by Quarriers’ youth housing services have often travelled a harrowing road with exposure to neglect, violence, abuse, relationship breakdowns with family and friends, and substance misuse which has affected their health, e...
Most Victorian Britons were Christian. TheAnglican churchesofEngland,Wales, andIrelandwere the state churches (of which the monarch was thenominalhead) and dominated the religious landscape (even though the majority of Welsh and Irish people were members of other churches). TheChurch of Scotlandwas...
The report found poverty rates are highest in London, the North of England, Midlands and Wales, and lowest in the South of England (excluding London), Scotland and Northern Ireland. "While the proportion of people in employment has risen consistently for six years, weak local economies in some...
Mould and Baker (2017) conduct fifteen case studies in Scotland and find that EPOV can lead to MH problems, such as depression and anxiety. Similarly, Zhang et al. (2019) use household-level survey data from the China Family Panel Studies further confirm a statistically significant and robust...
In developed countries, there is no universally accepted measure of energy poverty. However, commonly used measures include household expenditures or subjective assessments of energy affordability [19]. Some developed countries (i.e., Cyprus, France, Ireland, Scotland, Slovakia, and the UK) officially...
Lifestyle risk factors, obesity and infectious disease mortality in the general population: linkage study of 97,844 adults from England and Scotland. Prev Med. 2019;123:65–70. Article Google Scholar Meng Y, Lu Y, Xiang H, Liu S. Short-term effects of ambient air pollution on the ...
Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, Scotland, UK S. M. Thumbi Contributions Design: Brunker K, S.M. Thumbi, Hampson K, Oyugi JO. Literature research: Jaswant G, Campbell K. Data analysis: Jaswant G, ...
In Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, households are classed as fuel poor if they have to spend more than 10% of their income, including housing benefit, on fuel costs to heat their home to an adequate level. This produces higher observed rates of fuel poverty in those countries. ...
The scar on the face of Scotland: deprivation and alcohol-related facial injuries in Scotland. Recent media and political attention have focused on a "rising tide" of youth violence and alcohol-related problems in Scotland. Facial injuries in Scotlan... DI Conway,AD Mcmahon,L Graham,... - ...