Isobel Braithwaite
@izzybraithwaite
NIHR Doctoral Researcher & Public Health registrar working on housing & health @UCL.
#HealthInequalities, #ClimateCrisis=#HealthCrisis, healthy environments s/h
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26-02-2010 09:17:37
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It has been such a pleasure to be invited to organise our Housing and Health Education Day at Barts NHS Trust. Thanks to Barts Education Academy (Barts Health Education Academy) for supporting and hosting us π§΅(1/6)
New briefing on #Housing , #Poverty and #PublicHealth for the Faculty of Public Health's Poverty Special Interest Group - glad to have been able to contribute to this:
Glad to have been able to represent Medact at the #EnergyForAll #ColdHomesKill demonstration outside parliament on Budget day today, and to speak about the health impacts of cold, damp homes and energy poverty.
More on the Energy For All campaign - energyforall.org.uk
π’ London Demonstration
#ColdHomesKill thousands of people every winter βοΈ
Energy is a human right π‘
Pensioners, tenants health workers and disabled people have come together to Unite 4 #EnergyForAll
NEW: Scrapping the uprating of working-age benefits in line with prices next year would:
- reduce the incomes of 9m households by an average of Β£470
- push an additional 400,000 children into absolute poverty
- save HM Treasury up to Β£4.2bn resolutionfoundation.org/publications/rβ¦