Material about Social Security Benefits, Housing policy etc. and its effect on health. The welfare state in the UK did not start with health. It started with benefits. The most important part of the National Insurance Act 1911 was Sickness Benefit. The medical care had much less effect, and was in any case confined to those who paid their National Insurance – i.e. men.
- Poverty and Inequality
- Basic Income
- Benefits in the Future – analysis of the effects of welfare reform
- Better Housing, Better Health conference 1994
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Community Development and Health
- Health and Housing conference 2011
- The Health Effects of Unemployment
- Health, Inequality and Housing conference 2008
- Housing improvement as an investment to improve health
- Inequalities Blog
- Informed Compassion – Incapacity Benefit reform
- Manchester & District Branch Child Poverty Action Group
- The Production and Reproduction of Scandals in Chronic Sector Hospitals
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee introduces and explains the new Social Services 1948
- Social Justice in Action
- Social Welfare Policy – British Library