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Media coverage
Title BBC Radio 5 Live: North South Health Divide Media name/outlet BBC Radio 5 Live Media type Radio Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 9/08/17 Persons Evangelos (Evan) Kontopantelis Title North South health divide Media name/outlet Sky News Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 9/08/17 Description Interview on Sky News Persons Evangelos (Evan) Kontopantelis Title CHANNEL FOUR NEWS: North South health Divide Media name/outlet Channel 4 Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Description Professor Iain Buchan from the University of Manchester, the man behind research looking at young deaths in the North of England, and MP Luciana Berger discuss the North-South divide.
Two links:
https://www.channel4.com/news/luciana-berger-north-south-health-divide-is-a-burning-injustice
https://www.channel4.com/news/study-north-england-die-youngURL https://www.channel4.com/news/luciana-berger-north-south-health-divide-is-a-burning-injustice Persons Iain Buchan Title BBC 6/10 News and Newsnight: North South Health Divide Media name/outlet BBC One/Two Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Description Why do more young adults in the north die?
Newsnight business editor Helen Thomas reports on the north-south divide in mortality rates for young adults.URL www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05bxp03 Persons Iain Buchan Title BBC RADIO 4: World at One: North South Health Divide Media name/outlet BBC Radio 4 Media type Radio Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Persons Iain Buchan Title BBC NORTH WEST TONIGHT: North South health divide Media name/outlet BBC North West Tonight Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Persons Iain Buchan Title BBC NEWS CHANNEL: North South health divide Media name/outlet BBC News Channel Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Persons Iain Buchan Title ‘Alarming’ rise in early deaths of young adults in the north of England – study Media name/outlet The Guardian Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/08/17 Description More young adults are dying before their time in the north of England than the south – and the gap is widening, a study has revealed.
Researchers say that since 1965, about 1.2 million more people have died before the age of 75 in the north of England than in the south, taking into account differences in population.
And the team warns that the gap in premature deaths is growing larger – revealing a particularly “alarming growth” among younger adults and those nearing middle-age.URL https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/08/alarming-rise-in-early-deaths-of-young-adults-in-the-north-of-england-study Persons Iain Buchan Title grim reaper up northNortherners are ‘20% more likely to die young than Brits down South – and the gap is getting bigger’ Media name/outlet The Sun Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 7/08/17 Description PEOPLE living in the North of England are a fifth more likely to die young than those living in the South, a study found.
The North-South divide is growing at an “alarming” rate and is to blame for 1.2million excess deaths in the North over the past 50 years.URL https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/4193348/people-living-in-northern-england-are-a-fifth-more-likely-to-die-young-than-those-in-the-south/ Persons Iain Buchan Title Why living in the north raises the risk of dying: Chance of death before the age of 75 rises by a FIFTH if you live in one of five regions Media name/outlet Mail Online Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 7/08/17 Description Northerners are dying younger than their counterparts in the South.
A major study found their risk of death before the age of 75 was 20 per cent higher.
Researchers at the University of Manchester said the results told ‘a tale of two Englands’.URL www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4769594/Why-living-north-raises-risk-dying.html Persons Iain Buchan Title NEW SCIENTIST: People in north England are 20 per cent more likely to die young Media name/outlet New Scientist Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 7/08/17 Description People in northern England are 20 per cent more likely to die before the age of 75 than those in the south.
Iain Buchan, of the University of Manchester, UK, and his colleagues analysed Office for National Statistics death data from 1965 to 2015, dividing England into two regions. The northern region also included the midlands, while the southern region included East Anglia.URL https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143127-people-in-north-england-are-20-per-cent-more-likely-to-die-young/?cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2017-Echobox&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1502184090 Persons Iain Buchan
Keywords
- health economics
- life expectancy
- north south divide
- Northern Powerhouse
- policy