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“Pursuing the wrong problem: the history of public health policy to
reduce health inequalities in the United Kingdom”
Professor Mike Kelly
Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health,
University of Cambridge
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Life expectancy males: England.
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Life expectancy: males East of England.
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Life expectancy females: East of England.
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Repeated Policy attempts to change things.
• Prevention and Health – Everybody’s Business (1976).
• The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Health in England (1992).
• Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation (1999).
• Tackling Health Inequalities: A Programme for Action(2003).
• Choosing Health: Making Healthy Choices Easier (2004).
• Healthy Lives, Healthy People (2010)
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These policies have a number of characteristics.
• Focus on risks to health from tobacco, alcohol, obesity, lack of exercise.
• Talk about the importance of getting the right messages out to the population.
• Much emphasis on behaviour change.
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The long shadow of cholera.
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The shorthand history of nineteenth century public
health.
• John Snow.
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UNIVERSITY OF
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The shorthand history of nineteenth century public
health.
• John Snow.
• Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
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The shorthand history of nineteenth century public
health.
• John Snow.
• Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
• Koch, Lister, Pasteur.
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• The nineteenth century was one of public health progress in which germ theory eventually triumphed and in which public health measures eradicated deadly infections like cholera.
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The pathogenic paradigm.
• If a cause can be identified acting on that cause provides a solution.
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The pathogenic paradigm.
• If a cause can be identified acting on that cause provides a solution.
• Cholera is the paradigmatic example.
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The twentieth century.
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Doll & Hill and tobacco.
• The identification of specific pathogens and dose response relationships.
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Doll & Hill and tobacco.
• The identification of specific pathogens and dose response relationships.
• But smoking is a behaviour.
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Doll & Hill and tobacco.
• The identification of specific pathogens and dose response relationships.
• But smoking is a behaviour.
• Paradigm shift?
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Risk, cause, prevention.
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The discourse of risky behaviours
• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Inactivity
• Food
• Drugs
• Travel
• Sex
• Age
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The discourse of risky behaviours
• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Inactivity
• Food
• Drugs
• Travel
• Sex
• Age
• Being alive
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The non-shorthand version of nineteenth century public
health.
• Leith and cholera.
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• Venters, G.A. (2015) Leith in the time of cholera - the story of Thomas Latta, HektoenInternational, Winter 2015.
• http://www.hekint.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1318
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The non-shorthand version of nineteenth century public
health.
• Leith and cholera.
• The Broad Street Pump
• The Thames Embankment.
• Edwin Chadwick.
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• Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
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• Is Donald Trump a good President?
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• What is 56,674,237 divided by 13?
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Thinking fast about causes.
• Cause and effect.
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Thinking fast about causes.
• Cause and effect.
• Simple linearity.
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Thinking fast about causes.
• Cause and effect.
• Simple linearity.
• Policies on non-communicable disease in England.
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Repeated Policy attempts to change things.
• Prevention and Health – Everybody’s Business (1976).
• The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Health in England (1992).
• Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation (1999).
• Tackling Health Inequalities: A Programme for Action(2003).
• Choosing Health: Making Healthy Choices Easier (2004).
• Healthy Lives, Healthy People (2010)
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Thinking fast about causes.
• Cause and effect.
• Simple linearity.
• Policies on non-communicable disease in England.
• “Its about behaviour change stupid; and that’s easy”.
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UNIVERSITY OF
CAMBRIDGEThe Primary Care Unit
Thinking fast about causes.
• Cause and effect.
• Simple linearity.
• Policies on non-communicable disease in England.
• “Its about behaviour change stupid; and that’s easy”.
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The dominance of the proximal risk factor
approach to aetiology.
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The dominance of the proximal risk factor
approach to aetiology.
• Focus on behaviour change.
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The dominance of the proximal risk factor
approach to aetiology.
• Focus on behaviour change.
• Focus on some of the wider determinants -but not historical or biological ones!
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The dominance of the proximal risk factor
approach to aetiology.
• Focus on behaviour change.
• Focus on some of the wider determinants -but not historical or biological ones!
• Little attention to the mechanisms of prevention.
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Implications of the non-complex version.
• Individualistic.
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Implications of the non-complex version.
• Individualistic.
• Reductionist.
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Implications of the non-complex version.
• Individualistic.
• Reductionist.
• Behaviour abstracted form social context.
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Implications of the non-complex version.
• Individualistic.
• Reductionist.
• Behaviour abstracted form social context.
• Vested interests ignored
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Implications of the non-complex version.
• Individualistic.
• Reductionist.
• Behaviour abstracted form social context.
• Vested interests ignored
• Lip service paid to Wider Determinants.
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Rethinking the question.
• Health inequalities have a recurrent historical dimension – what do the historical data and evidence tell us about the patterning of health inequalities?
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Rethinking the question.
• Health inequalities have a recurrent historical dimension – what do the historical data and evidence tell us about the patterning of health inequalities?
• Health inequalities are biological as well as a statistical phenomena, so where is the biology in current policy?
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Rethinking the question.
• Health inequalities have a recurrent historical dimension – what do the historical data and evidence tell us about the patterning of health inequalities?
• Health inequalities are a biological as well as a statistical phenomena, so where is the biology in current policy?
• Health inequalities represent fundamental economic differences in the population, so where is the Economics?
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Rethinking means “thinking slow”.
• We need to integrate historical, social, psychological, economic and biological phenomena.
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Rethinking means “thinking slow”.
• We need to integrate historical, social, psychological, economic and biological phenomena.
• And we must distinguish between aetiology and preventive interventions.
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Thinking slow.
• Also involves acknowledging that the mechanisms causing the patterning of population health are not the same as those explaining individual health outcomes.
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• In fact these ideas have been around in the psychological and sociological literatures since at least the 1940s.
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• There are social and psychological factors involved in disease aetiology.
• There are different social and psychological factors involved in why interventions are effective.
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Mechanisms of prevention/
implementation.
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Mechanisms of prevention/
implementation.
• Delivery.
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Mechanisms of prevention/
implementation.
• Delivery.
• Delivery sub-optimally.
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Mechanisms of prevention/
implementation.
• Delivery.
• Delivery sub-optimally.
• Delivery, accessibility, use by different sections of the population.
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• Costs and opportunity costs of delivery done sub-optimally.
• Costs and opportunity costs of doing things optimally?
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A relational and dynamic approach.
• Individuals and populations interact differentially to interventions and these interventions are also implemented differentially.
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• The WWWWW test.
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A relational and dynamic approach.
• Individuals and populations interact differentially to interventions and these interventions are also implemented differentially.
• Will it work on a wet Wednesday in Wigan?
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Conclusion.
• The ways in which interventions work in different segments of the population not well understood and should be an urgent priority.
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Conclusion.
• The ways in which interventions work in different segments of the population not well understood and should be an urgent priority.
• Still a much greater focus on cause than on prevention in policy and the assumption that if you know the former you will be able to do the latter.
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Conclusion.
• The ways in which interventions work in different segments of the population not well understood and should be an urgent priority.
• Still a much greater focus on cause than on prevention in policy and the assumption that if you know the former you will be able to do the latter.
• But cause is the necessary but not sufficient condition - it tells you what to do but not how to do it!
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• Thanks to the St John’s College Reading Group on Health Inequalities in Cambridge. https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-reading-group-health-inequalities and the Annual Fund of St John’s College, Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust [097899] and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (UK), grant number AH/M005917/1 (“Evaluating Evidence in Medicine”).