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The Glasgow effect: 'We die young here - but you just get on with it'
THE SCOTTISH Office implemented social engineering policies that it knew to be damaging to the long-term health of Glaswegians, a new report on the so-called 'Glasgow effect' will reveal.
David Walsh, of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, said that their work proved that poor health had political causes and could not simply be attributed to individual lifestyle choices.
He added: "The principal reasons for poor health in Glasgow are poverty and deprivation, and this shouldn’t be forgotten. However, even given its very high levels of deprivation, Glasgow has much, much worse health than it should have, and much worse than in comparably deprived cities like Liverpool, Manchester and Belfast – cities that been through the same processes of de-industrialisation.
"Until now this has been an unexplained phenomenon: but this new research is based on assessment of a huge amount of evidence and is not speculation-based."
The Scottish Office documents were particularly revealing, he claimed. "The Scottish Office embarked on a series of policies that effectively wrote off the city - they designated it a ‘declining city’ and their plans focused on economic growth elsewhere," he added. "This was a policy that went on for decades despite an awareness that this was having a massively negative impact in socio-economic terms and therefore on health."
@glasgoweffect is the most fucking pointless, disrespectful, stupid "art project" to ever occur, get your pretentious shite to fuck, you're not welcome in this city Xx
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Red Road Flats Glasgow by Richard Chivers. From the Human Endeavour project, Glasgow Effect.
On an average wage today, half a second of work will pay for an hour of light. In 1950, the average wage earner worked eight seconds to run a conventional filament lamp; in 1880, 15 seconds of work was needed for a kerosene lamp; and more than six hours of work for an hour of light by tallow candle in the 1800s. In 1750BC, your average ancient Babylonian needed to work more than 50 hours to get an hour of light from a sesame oil lamp. That 43,200-fold improvement...
Why rational optimism beats ephemeral happiness, The Australian, 22 June 2011
Janet Albrechtsen summarizes Matt Ridley's argument. (ht: sully)
The reasons for the high Scottish mortality between 1950 and 1980 are unclear, but poverty and deprivation linked to particular industrial employment patterns, poor housing and unhealthy cultural and behavioural patterns seem the more likely explanations. From 1980 onwards the mortality pattern changed and this seems most likely to be attributable to the changed political context, produced by neoliberal political attack, and the consequent hopelessness and community disruption experienced in Scotland and Glasgow.
A controversial new report (1.9mb) from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health suggests that policies from the Conservative Government in the 1980s, aimed at deliberately weakening Scotland's indiustrial heartland, may have led to the "Glasgow Effect". This may explain, they suggest, why people in the West of Scotland live less long than those of other comparable cities.
On the other hand, maybe the real cause of the "Glasgow Effect" is blaming other people for our woes...
In the 1980s and 90s, thousands of Glaswegians were declared "unfit" for work, to remove them from the unemployment statistics. Surely this must have had a major effect on how our city and inhabitants see ourselves... Officially incapable :(
(ht: Glasgow Guide)
Across England and Wales spring rainfall was 86.9mm - the driest since 1893, according to the Met Office. It's meant problems for gardeners.
More evidence of anti-Scottish bias from the BBC News / Met Office cabal.
Not all areas of the UK are suffering from the dry weather as Scotland saw three times the average amount of rain this spring.
Source: BBC News, 8 June 2011
