Will you be worse off than your parents?
Get some recent data from the latest inter-generational fairness Index published by the Inter-generational Foundation. For the past 5 years it has been examining the economic, social mobility and health prospects for young British people in comparison with older generations. Shockingly it finds that rising rents, unaffordable housing and more precarious employment could lead to […]
Are Britons suffering too much stress?
Certainly this month examinations cause anxiety for many! The ONS released some shocking statistics which showed a rise in student suicides in England and Wales 2014. See the BBC discussion. And the Health and safety Executive estimated that In 2014/15 stress accounted for 35% of all work related ill-health cases and 43% of all working days […]
Where is the world’s happiest country?
Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report. It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology. The report also considers how subjective well being can be measured by researchers, issues relating to happiness and public policy and sustainable development. It also considers how […]
The unhappiest people in the UK are those aged 45-59
According to the latest 3 year survey from the office for National Statistics. Find out more from the website. There there are also maps of levels of happiness for local authority areas. There are also excel data tables at a local level for anxiety, satisfaction and happiness. The BBC has an interesting online test – […]
Grant Thornton Health and Wellbeing Index.
Released this week a major new report which considers a local place based approach for improving health and wellbeing. It has analysis of the correlation between the economic, social and environmental health determinants and the health outcomes both the determinants of ill health and health outcomes for 324 Local Authority Areas in England. For further […]
Where is the Best Place to Grow old?
Find out by consulting the Global Agewatch Index 2015 from HelpAge International which ranks 96 nations . It is based on international data sets drawn from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the World Bank, World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, UNESCO and the Gallup World Poll. Issues covered include: income, health, environment […]
Children, happiness and well-being
According to the latest Good Childhood report 2015 published this week by the Children’s Society, children in the UK are unhappy. The report measures subjective well-being in a number of key areas including relationships with family and friends, school life, satisfaction with appearance, money and possessions. Generally it found that compared to other nations children ‘in […]
Quality of Life in the EU
Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors. This follows the development of recent ONS publications to measure UK national well-being. Better Living Index developed by the OECD Social Progress Index from Deloitte which measures social and environmental conditions in […]
Students, debt and standard of living
The Sutton Trust estimated in 2014 that students graduate with £44,000 debt and this week the Centre for Policy Studies reported that generation Y (born 1980-2000) will have a lower economic standard of living than their parents.
Radio and Health
Can radio help improve health in developing countries? A useful case study from BBC media action which examines a radio soap opera by public health officials to encourage good practices amongst mothers in Somalia. The case study includes details of some storylines and impact studies. Some other examples of radio shows and health promotion include: […]
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