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Can Scotland achieve its aim of narrowing health inequalities in a post-pandemic world?

In this commentary we explore the potential for the devolved Scottish Government to achieve its stated aim of narrowing health - and broader societal (including economic) - inequalities within both the restrictions of limited devolved powers, and in the context of post-pandemic uncertainty. We do so...

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Autores principales: Walsh, David, Lowther, Matt, McCartney, Gerry, Reid, Katrina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100042
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description In this commentary we explore the potential for the devolved Scottish Government to achieve its stated aim of narrowing health - and broader societal (including economic) - inequalities within both the restrictions of limited devolved powers, and in the context of post-pandemic uncertainty. We do so by focussing on two questions: first, where were we with regards to inequalities policy in Scotland before the pandemic? And second, what are the likely implications of the pandemic for inequalities, and inequalities policymaking, in the country?
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spelling pubmed-75582422020-10-15 Can Scotland achieve its aim of narrowing health inequalities in a post-pandemic world? Walsh, David Lowther, Matt McCartney, Gerry Reid, Katrina Public Health Pract (Oxf) Commentary In this commentary we explore the potential for the devolved Scottish Government to achieve its stated aim of narrowing health - and broader societal (including economic) - inequalities within both the restrictions of limited devolved powers, and in the context of post-pandemic uncertainty. We do so by focussing on two questions: first, where were we with regards to inequalities policy in Scotland before the pandemic? And second, what are the likely implications of the pandemic for inequalities, and inequalities policymaking, in the country? Elsevier 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7558242/ /pubmed/34173576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100042 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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