Rachel Loopstra

TL;DR: This short review evaluates the evidence of austerity’s impact on health, through two main mechanisms: a ‘social risk effect’ of increasing unemployment, poverty, homelessness and other socio-economic risk factors, and a “healthcare effect” through cuts to healthcare services, as well as reductions in health coverage and restricting access to care.

TL;DR: Doctors are witnessing increasing numbers of patients seeking referrals to food banks in the United Kingdom, and is this due to supply or demand?

TL;DR: The programme of reassessing people on disability benefits using the Work Capability Assessment was independently associated with an increase in suicides, self-reported mental health problems and antidepressant prescribing, and this policy may have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England.

TL;DR: It is suggested that improvements in income and employment are related to improvements in families' experiences of food insecurity, highlighting the potential for income- and employment-based policy interventions to affect the severity of household food insecurity for low-income families.

TL;DR: The authors found that 75% of the families living with l'insecurite alimentaire avaient vecu de l'alimentaire, mais only 23% avaied of recours a banque alimentaires.