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Health Inequalities Policy Research Group
@livunihipr.bsky.social
The HIP-R Group, part of the Institute of Population Health at the University of Liverpool, aims to improve health & reduce inequalities. We study health/wellbeing factors & what impacts them.
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That's why we have to keep pushing for a X-govt strategy for health: so that work across depts - e.g. on welfare, family policy and mental health support - is far more joined up

More on the research in this blog: www.health.org.uk/features-and...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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AND (encouragingly) that strong emotional support can mitigate up to 18% of the effect that family adversity and poverty have on mental health at age 14 (and 13% of the effect at age 17)
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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As part of a @healthfoundation.bsky.social programme, Uni of Liverpool used Millennium Cohort data to find that children with experience of family adversity & poverty were almost 3x more likely to experience poor mental health at age 14 and age 17.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM