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Profile: Professor Anita Patel goes behind-the-scenes of health economics
Recently appointed Provost's Visiting Professor of Health Economics, Anita Patel explains the "quiet" but significant impact of health economists.
Lessons for leaders: what has long COVID done to personal finances?
Millions of people around the world have been hit by long COVID. And, in addition to the negative health effects, patients also suffer a financial hit that could impact future generations, a new study reveals.
Teenagers and healthcare inequality: lessons for policymakers
Our adolescent experience can shape our health throughout our lifetime. Here, our academics look at how data on Millennial adolescents should impact healthcare policy.
Obesity: How can governments best combat rising rates?
Could authorities draw on the success of the UK’s tax on sweetened drinks – known as the sugar tax – and rethink consumption taxes across all foods to encourage people towards healthier diets?
Social media anxiety: what doctors can do to help
An interdisciplinary team from Imperial College London has developed a new framework that addresses how primary healthcare can play a key role in solving social media-related anxiety.
How parental unemployment impacts children’s health in the long run
Children with jobless parents are likelier to experience ill health when they become adults. Understanding how children are affected at different ages and how gender and education affect outcomes can help policymakers improve lives and cut spending.
5 facts that will change the way you think about global health
How can we make the world a healthier place? Learn how to improve global health with these five findings.
Post-Brexit medicine approvals: what we know
Has the UK fulfilled its ambition to break free from Brussels and give patients faster access to new drugs as they emerge? Or has Brexit only increased red tape and made the UK a less attractive market for innovation?
2022 in business: 10 of the top IB Knowledge articles of the year
We take a look at some of this year's most popular IB Knowledge articles
How to create effective health taxes and change human behaviour
A new book from Imperial College Business School's Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation and the World Health Organization proposes a new role for health taxes tells us exactly why policymakers should care about health taxes
How can individuals break stigmatised barriers?
Professor Sankalp Chaturvedi explores how stigma in public health ruins lives and livelihoods
The pandemic divide: how COVID-19 has increased health inequalities
Rather than being a greater leveller, the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities, hitting people on lower incomes and those from ethnic minority backgrounds hardest