Social science sites of the week 30th July 2020
Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week
Covid-19
Still adding updates on the blog.
http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/
B Wielgoszewska, F Green, A Goodman, Finances and employment during lockdown – Initial findings from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies focuses on hours worked, impact on working mothers and amount and type of home schooling taking place.the briefing paper. Can be downloaded from the website
Covid- solutions in slums
Great interactive map being compiled by UN Habitat in cooperation with the University Politecnico di Torino in Italy.It is collecting examples of good practice in controlling the virus in informal urban settings it is grouped regionally and by type of response including housing, reopening strategies and transport
Gender and Covid-19 response
Really great website authored by an international network of scholars with the aim of providing rapid evidence review on all aspects of research relating t gender and the pandemic ranging from biomedical to social science . The website has news working group resources and maps and outputs from ongoing research. A really great place to stay up to date
COVID-19 Law Lab
a joint project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. The new database contains legal documents
from over 190 countries worldwide. Topics covered include states of emergency, regulation of social distancing and lockdowns
Evidence, Policy, and Interventions for COVID-19 Tracker (EPIC Tracker)
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) has launched the beta version of its Evidence, Policy, and Interventions for COVID-19 Tracker (EPIC Tracker). The EPIC Tracker seeks to be an inventory of the government public health, economic, social, and community measures taken to respond to COVID-19 across all countries.
UN-Habitat COVID-Readiness 19 and Responsiveness tracker platform
From Un habitat includes metrics on lives lost in specific cities measured against indicators for the state of preparation and the policy responses taken. Data is drawn from a variety of sources including
Oxford Economics, the UN, Economist intelligence Unit and WHO
Obesity is it a problem?
This week the UK government launched a strategy for tackling obesity
Search NHS evidence for access to recent government reports and strategy
Food and Drink Federation reaction
Obesity Uk response
British Dieticians response
UNICEF The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition
in terms of the UK they refer to children in a swamp of obesity.
OECD has recently published a report
The Heavy Burden of Obesity The Economics of Prevention
Using microsimulation modelling, this book analyses the burden of obesity and overweight in 52 countries (including OECD, European Union and G20 countries), showing how overweight reduces life expectancy, increases healthcare costs, decreases workers' productivity and lowers GDP.
On this topic
Do people eat junk food because it is cheaper?
A systematic review of literature published in 2013
Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options? A systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies from 10 countries did provide some evidence especially in terms of meat that healthier options were more expensive.
longitudinal study in UK found prices of healthy foods rose quicker than unhealthy on 94 items
The Growing Price Gap between More and Less Healthy Foods: Analysis of a Novel Longitudinal UK Dataset Nicholas R. V. Jones, Annalijn I. Conklin, Marc Suhrcke,
Pablo Monsivais
In 2017 the same CEDAR research centre found that cost of meeting the recommended dietary intake for fruit and vegetables, oily fish, sugars, fat, saturated fat and salt was between 3% and 17% more expensive than other alternatives.
However there have been some disputes about metrics used to calculate costs . This IEA discussion paper from 2017 found the margins were small. But as others have discussed factors such as time and access to healthy food outlets can also be key
A government report obesity and the environment found a link between the number of fast food outlets, child obesity and socio-economic background. Poorer people were likely to live near more fast food shops and to be overweight. It has an interesting map from 2016 showing the geographical spread of fast food outlets.
Black Lives Matter Protest collection
Following the brutal death of George Floyd UNC Greensboro has launched the Triad Black Lives Matter Protest Collection to document the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality protests, and race relations in the Triad region of North Carolina. It will preserve murals, images as well as posters and other ephemera serving to document the social movements of the time.
See more links to Race and diversity reports on the scoop.it page
National Brewery Centre Archives
Great fun site which is also a rich source of information for social and economic historians. The archives tell the history of the UK brewing and pub industries and their impact on the UK’s economy and way of life over the past 250 years . It includes many wonderful photographs relating to transport, labels, establishments and workers. It includes materials relating to large companies such as Bass . See this marvellous example of women working in the industry
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