Reviewing Policies after the English Riots

2012 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Richard Ennals
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Ageing Workforce ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

At a time of change and disorder, this article argues that the whole range of government policies need to be reviewed, and reconceptualised in terms of generations and relations between generations. This article concentrates on the UK, from a European perspective, and with particular reference to the Scandinavian Model. In the context of crisis, new initiatives are required, taking account of transitions during the life course, relations between generations, and sustainability. The perspective of the Ageing Workforce casts light across the spectrum of policy areas. It is a moving picture, not a snapshot.

What is ‘impact’? Learning from examples across the professional life course

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-201
Author(s):  
Tina Haux
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

The inclusion of research impact in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework in the UK (REF2014) was greeted with scepticism by the academic community, not least due to the challenges of defining and measuring the nature and significance of impact. A new analytical framework of the nature of impact is developed in this chapter and it distinguishes between policy creation, direction, discourse and practice. This framework is then applied to the top-ranked impact case studies in the REF2014 from the Social Work and Social Policy sub-panel and the ESRC Early Career Impact Prize Winners in order to assess impact across the life-course of academics.  

scholarly journals Reflections on life-course vaccination: the England experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Edelstein
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Meningococcal Disease ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Disease Group ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
Group B ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
In Pregnancy

Abstract Since the introduction of the expanded programme on immunization in the 1970s, vaccination has evolved from being an intervention of early infancy to being a programme targeting individuals at all stages of life including birth, infancy, childhood, teenage years, pregnancy and adulthood. The UK has been at the forefront of this lifelong approach to vaccination and has introduced vaccines at all stages of life in its national schedule, including vaccination against hepatitis B at birth, Meningococcal disease group B in infancy, influenza in primary school years, Meningococcal disease groups A, C, W and Y in teenage years, pertussis in pregnancy and shingles in older adults. Based on a range of studies conducted by Public Health England, This session will reflect on some of the challenges brought on by the life course approach in the UK including issues of access in different age groups, choosing the right age and settings for vaccinations, age-specific attitudes to vaccination and subsequent communication strategies, and challenges with monitoring a life-course programme.

scholarly journals Saints and Slackers: Challenging Discourses about the Decline of Domestic Cooking

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah ◽  
Matt Watson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Food Hygiene ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

Amidst growing concern about both nutrition and food safety, anxiety about a loss of everyday cooking skills is a common part of public discourse. Within both the media and academia, it is widely perceived that there has been an erosion of the skills held by previous generations with the development of convenience foods and kitchen technologies cited as culpable in ‘deskilling’ current and future generations. These discourses are paralleled in policy concerns, where the incidence of indigenous food-borne disease in the UK has led to the emergence of an understanding of consumer behaviour, within the food industry and among food scientists, based on assumptions about consumer ‘ignorance’ and poor food hygiene knowledge and cooking skills. These assumptions are accompanied by perceptions of a loss of ‘common-sense’ understandings about the spoilage and storage characteristics of food, supposedly characteristic of earlier generations. The complexity of cooking skills immediately invites closer attention to discourses of their assumed decline. This paper draws upon early findings from a current qualitative research project which focuses on patterns of continuity and change in families’ domestic kitchen practices across three generations. Drawing mainly upon two family case studies, the data presented problematise assumptions that earlier generations were paragons of virtue in the context of both food hygiene and cooking. In taking a broader, life-course perspective, we highlight the absence of linearity in participants’ engagement with cooking as they move between different transitional points throughout the life-course.

scholarly journals ‘Food hates’ over the life course: an analysis of food narratives from the UK Mass Observation Archive

Appetite ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Uprichard ◽  
Sarah Nettleton ◽  
Paul Chappell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Life course traumas, phenotypic aging, and cardiovascular disease: retrospective analysis of 104,939 UKB participants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingqi Cao ◽  
Jingyun Zhang ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
Xueqin Li ◽  
Chia-Ling Kuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Childhood Traumas ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Mental Health Questionnaire

Background: While childhood and adulthood traumatic experiences have been linked to subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD), the relationship between life course traumas and CVD and the underpinning pathways are poorly understood. This study aimed to: (1) examine the associations of childhood, adulthood, and lifetime traumas with CVD; (2) examine the associations between diverse life course traumatic profiles and CVD; and (3) examine the extent to which Phenotypic Age (PhenoAge), a well-developed phenotypic aging measure, mediates these associations. Methods: We included 104,939 participants from the UK Biobank who completed the 2016 online mental health questionnaire. CVD outcomes including ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke were ascertained. Childhood, adulthood, and lifetime traumas were categorized into three subgroups (mild, moderate, and severe), respectively. Four life course traumatic profiles were defined as non-severe traumas across life course, non-severe childhood and severe adulthood traumas, severe childhood and non-severe adulthood traumas, and severe traumas across life course based on both childhood and adulthood traumas. PhenoAge was measured using an equation previously developed. Multivariable logistic models and formal mediation analyses were performed. Results: Of 104,939 participants, 7,398 (7.0%) were diagnosed with CVD. Subgroups of childhood, adulthood, and lifetime traumas were associated with CVD, respectively. Furthermore, life course traumatic profiles were significantly associated with CVD. For instance, compared with subgroups experiencing non-severe traumas across life course, those who experienced non-severe childhood and severe adulthood traumas, severe childhood and non-severe adulthood traumas, and severe traumas across life course had higher odd of CVD, with odds ratios of 1.07 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.00, 1.15), 1.17 (95% CI: 1.09, 1.25), and 1.33 (95% CI: 1.24, 1.43), respectively. Formal mediation analyses suggested that PhenoAge partially mediated the above associations. For instance, PhenoAge mediated 5.8% of increased CVD events in subgroups who experienced severe childhood traumas, relative to those experiencing mild childhood traumas. Conclusions: Childhood, adulthood, and lifetime traumas, as well as diverse life course traumatic profiles, were associated with CVD. Furthermore, phenotypic aging partially mediated these associations. These findings suggest a potential pathway from life course traumas to CVD through phenotypic aging, and underscore the importance of policy programs targeting traumatic events over the life course in ameliorating inequalities in cardiovascular health.

scholarly journals Using Facebook to tell stories of premature ageing and sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course for women with cerebral palsy in the UK and USA

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e032172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonali Shah ◽  
C Bradbury-Jones ◽  
Julie Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
North America ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
Feminist Disability Theory ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
Reproductive Healthcare ◽  
Sexual Healthcare

ObjectiveTo enhance understanding of the bodily and lifestyle effects of ageing with cerebral palsy (CP) for women, with a particular focus on experiences with sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) services in the UK and North America.DesignA qualitative study underpinned by feminist disability theory and drawing on digital ethnographies to capture health and healthcare experiences for women with CP.SettingA global community of 140 women with CP, who are members of the closed international Facebook group,Women Ageing with Cerebral Palsy(WACP).ParticipantsForty-five members of WACP who were based in the UK and North America. The women were aged between 21 and 75.MethodsMessages posted on WACP between January 2018 and October 2018 were collated and underwent thematic analysis to identify themes relating to effects of ageing and experiences of SRH for women with CP at different points over the female life course.ResultsThe breadth of experiences in relation to the effects of ageing and access to reproductive and sexual healthcare for women with CP can be divided into three themes: (1) bodily effects of ageing; (2) lifestyle effects of ageing; (3) experiences of reproductive and sexual healthcare.ConclusionsGiving women with CP a platform to ‘speak for themselves’ in relation to effects of ageing and SRH provides health professionals with an informed knowledge base on which to draw. This might improve treatment for this growing adult patient community whose experiences have not received attention in health discourse or services. Including these experiences in public medical and social discourse can also bring a new knowledge to girls with CP about what ageing could mean for them so plans can be put in place for their future.

Re-Writing Social Policy and Changes within the Life Course Organisation. A European Perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Guillemard
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Prise En Charge ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Cycle De Vie ◽  
Sortie Précoce ◽  
The Life Course

RÉSUMÉLe mouvement de sortie précoce d'activité observé ces dernières années en Europe résulte d'autres mécanismes de protection sociale que ceux de l'assurance vieillesse et n'est pas dû à une simple avance du calendrier de l'âge de départ à la retraite.Deux systèmes ont été particulièrement sollicités pour assurer la prise en charge des travailleurs âgés: l'assurance invalidité et l'assurance chômage. Des dispositifs de «préretraite» ont également facilité, par une indemnisation, les sorties anticipées de ces travailleurs, actifs ou au chômage.L'édifice de protection sociale des pays européens a été ainsi profondément intransformé, les risques et les logiques de prise en charge, se mêlant de manière inextricable.De plus, ces nouvelles formes de transition entre activité et retraite sont révélatrices de réorganisations en cours, sur tous les parcours des âgées. Une des implications du mouvement massif de sortie précoce d'activité a été que le cycle de vie ternaire marqué par des seuils (âge de scolarité, âge de droit à la retraite …), facteur important de socialisation, se décompose. Il est remplacé progressivement par une nouvelle flexibilité de l'organisation de la fin du cycle de vie. Une telle évolution incite à repenser le système de protection sociale dans le sens d'une moindre articulation à une division ternaire du cycle de vie. Dans cette perspective le concept même de retraite et de transferts sociaux pour l'inactivité définitive perd de sa pertinence.

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