Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2015

Belfield, Chris; Cribb, Jonathan; Hood, Andrew; Joyce, Robert

doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2015.0107

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“…Reproduced with permission of U.S. Congressional Budget Office; copyright © U.S. Congressional Budget Office, all rights reserved. c The U.K. Institute for Fiscal Studies communicates the effects of two policy options (to reform or not) on poverty across geographical regions and overall (Hood and Waters, 2015). Visual grouping is by region rather than by policy as in (a) and comparisons between policies is facilitated by an additional scale (the black dot).…”

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Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies

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Individual decision-makers need communications that succinctly describe potential harms and benefits of different options, but policymakers or citizens evaluating a policy are rarely given a balanced and easily understood summary of the potential outcomes of their decision. We review current policy option communication across diverse domains such as taxes, health, climate change, and international trade, followed by reviews of guidance and evidence for communication effectiveness. Our conceptual synthesis identifies four characteristics of policy options that make their communication particularly difficult: heterogeneous impacts on different segments of the population, multiple outcomes, long timescales, and large uncertainties. For communicators that are trying to inform rather than persuade, these complexities reveal a core tension between issue coverage and comprehensibility. We find little empirical evidence for how to communicate policy options effectively. We identify promising current communications, analyze them based on the above synthesis, and suggest priorities for future research. Recognizing the particular challenges of balanced, effective policy option communications could lead to better guidelines and support for policy decision-making.

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Public health for paediatricians: Fifteen-minute consultation on addressing child poverty in clinical practice

Singh

Zhu

Cheung

2020

Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed

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Paediatricians and other child health professionals have a key role in identifying, preventing or mitigating the impacts of poverty on child health. Approaching a problem as vast and intractable as poverty can seem daunting. This article will outline how social determinants impact child health, and provide practical guidance on how to address this problem through a public health lens. The aim is to give frontline practitioners a straightforward, evidence-based framework and practical solutions for tackling child poverty, across three levels: (1) the clinical consultation; (2) the clinical service for the population of children and young people we serve and (3) with a broader policy and social view.

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