Christoph Henking

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🔥 Climate impacts & perception

I significantly updated my preprint, which using representative survey data from 142 countries (N=128,093) shows that climate hazard experience is related to higher climate risk perception. Now includes an exploration of country heterogeneity: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Vorschau sanktionsfrei.de/studie25

Die Ergebnisse unserer Studie findet ihr jetzt auch auf unserer Seite: sanktionsfrei.de/studie25

Spoiler: Die Ergebnisse sind krass, aber "Mafiösen Sozialbetrug" haben wir nicht gefunden...

YouTube video by Human Condition The War on Drugs - A Failed Story

🎥: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfd...

Is the UK shifting its approach to drug policy? Why is drug policy more important than ever in today's geopolitics? What does global evidence say about OPCs?

It was great to join Sam Lewis from the Human Condition Podcast to discuss these questions...check out our full discussion below 👇

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New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social

Did the occupational structure evolve in the same way in different parts of London between 1991 and 2021?

In short: no, it was very much A Tale of Two Cities

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A graph showing the rise in firm creation after the Covid recession in 2020

Another way Covid was weird was that it accelerated firm creation during a recession. Who was starting new firms? To answer this question, we (@crahal.com & Naomi Muggleton) tracked every registered firm in the UK to discover who was capitalising on this crisis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@xromerovidal.bsky.social A chance to visit Berlin 😊

Highly important work by @xromerovidal.bsky.social: Economic conditions are getting more and more crucial to keep young people engaged in democracy.

44% of those in the intensive conditionality group say that 'being required to apply for jobs or take steps towards work' has made their mental health worse. This is also true of 35% only required to attend meetings, and 22% who have no requirements.

Just how common is benefits conditionality?
New post based on a new paper, at
inequalities.substack.com/p/how-common...
(now with clearer chart!)

On the day of the German federal election, we cannot take democratic values for granted. An important piece on the rise on the far right in Germany.

Why government can’t make America ‘healthier’ by micromanaging groceries purchased with SNAP benefits Maintaining a good diet is not cheap or straightforward, especially on a low income.

Many folks - including RFK Jr - are eyeing SNAP restrictions as a way to 'make America healthy again.'

My colleague Danielle Krobath and I describe why this isn't the right approach in @us.theconversation.com

#academicsky #publichealth #medsky

Global inequalities in mental health problems: understanding the predictors of lifetime prevalence, treatment utilisation and perceived helpfulness across 111 countries Socio-economic inequalities in mental health problems are found in measures covering prevalence, treatment utilisation, and treatment helpfulness. How…

Hi new Blusky community👋

I am a final year PhD student in Social Policy & Public Health, and I research social inequalities in mental health.

For example, what are the social determinants of mental healthcare use and helfpulness accross 111 countries?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper describing DCRs as ‘inclusion health interventions’! Thank you to @bchrisinger.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social @gwshorter.bsky.social for their guidance on this piece.

Link: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Some metro station wisdom from #Lisbon

Some of my stellar social science colleagues at Oxford 📝

go.bsky.app/LMFL2EG

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid...

I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

This #poverty is the most fundamentally important determinant of health and in the case of our children their future life chances .. this should be the government’s number one #publichealth priority if we’re serious about reducing health inequalities.. needs action not rhetoric!

Where Your SES Takes a Vow of Silence

🆕📝 "No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory" out in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior with Patrick Lazarevič and Marc Luy.

#socsky #demography #MonkMode

Last week, it was great to present my research during two presentations at #EPH2024 in Lisbon.

Social Inequalities in Mental Health Service Use in 111 countries bit.ly/3OeK8bx

Using Machine Learning to identify the social determinants of the mid-life decline in mental health bit.ly/3OfZjkK

At European public health conference in Lisbon this week. Let me know if you are around.

Opinion | It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing And there’s little agreement on the rules that should govern it.

It cetainly is.

And the recent discovery of obvious #ChatGPT text in published papers (i.e., “Certainly, …”) was only the worst offenders. #AcademicSky

www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

Pleasure to join a symposium on "Tackling Mental Health" Inequalities alongside Daina Kosite, Maria Gueltzow
and chaired by Dr Marielle Beenackers at the #UrbanMentalHealth Conference 2024 in Amsterdam. We discussed socioeconomic, gender and housing disparities in mental health.

📎🔎 t.co/HlqWxOGSeO