<div dir="ltr">Congratulations for preparing this excellent report<div>Ebal<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>____________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>Dr.B.Ekbal</div><div>Chairperson, Covid Expert Committee, Government of Kerala </div><div> Mobile: 94470 60912</div><div> Land Phone: 0471-2590912 (Home)<br></div><div>Home Address: Kuzhuvalil House,</div><div> G.R.A.E 30 A,</div><div> Chilambil Lane, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Gandhipuram, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Srikariyam P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.695017</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 08:04, Roman Vega <<a href="mailto:roman@phmovement.org">roman@phmovement.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear comrades from PHM Scotland,<div>We congratulate you for this important work on the Covid-19 pandemic socioeconomic and sanitary consequences in health and health inequalities. It clearly shows how the government's response to Covid-19 aggravated previous people's conditions and state of health and health inequalities. You have identified and discussed the evidence, learned from people's experiences, provided policy recommendations,and created conditions for advocacy and action. </div><div>We encourage our PHM comrades from other countries and regions, global programas and thematic circles to follow the PHM Scotland example.</div><div>With the warmest regards,</div><div>Roman.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 8:08 AM Tony Robertson <<a href="mailto:tony.robertson@stir.ac.uk" target="_blank">tony.robertson@stir.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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In view of the persistent health inequalities in Glasgow and Scotland PHM Scotland recently held an inquiry about health inequalities in Glasgow in light of the COVID pandemic. Seventeen organisations contributed to this inquiry and the almost universal view
was that the pandemic had exposed and exacerbated the pre-existing causes of poor health. That this is still the case, after years of policy making ostensibly designed to address the health problems of the city, is of major concern to all stakeholders, both
within the city and Scotland as a whole.<br>
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Today (10<sup>th</sup> March 2022) we are releasing our findings from that inquiry and you can read the full report via the link below, and we have provided the executive summary below as well. We would love to hear from the PHM community about your thoughts
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<a href="https://peopleshealthmovementscotland.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/glasgow-health-inquiry.pdf" target="_blank">https://peopleshealthmovementscotland.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/glasgow-health-inquiry.pdf</a><br>
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<b>Report Executive Summary</b><br>
The People’s Health Movement Scotland held a Glasgow People's Health Inquiry on September 21, 2021 and a follow-up analysis event on 20<sup>th</sup> January 2022. The aim was to stimulate a dialogue between community groups, third sector organisations, policy
makers and politicians on health and health inequalities in Glasgow in light of the COVID pandemic and about future challenges. There were 17 presentations of both qualitative and quantitative evidence and about current health activism. There were two responses
from policy makers and one from a politician.<br>
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The key findings were that COVID has both exacerbated the causes and consequences of pre-existing health inequalities and created additional threats in terms of social isolation, new experiences of poverty, workplace harms and exposure to physical and emotional
abuse. There were some indications of policy responses that supported new ways of using outside space and of active travel. Within communities, there appears to have been a significant growth in mutual aid. Overall, it is clear that current and past policy
responses to the underlying issues which create and exacerbate the conditions of inequality and impact on the social determinants of health have proved ineffectual. Austerity and the prevalence of insecure, poorly paid work along with the impact of ‘welfare
reform’ continue to create serious threats to health and wellbeing among significant sections of the population. Some notable pieces of evidence were missing around factors like housing, climate and disability which will require more investigation. Where recommendations
for the future were made these have been presented using the framework of the People’s Health Manifesto. This work is to be followed on with publications and events taking a critical lens to the evidence presented and assessing the policy changes needed in
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