Health

Children with jobless parents are likelier to experience ill health when they become adults. Understanding how children are affected at different ages and how gender and education affect outcomes can help policymakers improve lives and cut spending.

How can we make the world a healthier place? Learn how to improve global health with these five findings.

Has the UK fulfilled its ambition to break free from Brussels and give patients faster access to new drugs as they emerge? Or has Brexit only increased red tape and made the UK a less attractive market for innovation?

We take a look at some of this year's most popular IB Knowledge articles

A new book from Imperial College Business School's Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation and the World Health Organization proposes a new role for health taxes tells us exactly why policymakers should care about health taxes

Professor Sankalp Chaturvedi explores how stigma in public health ruins lives and livelihoods

Rather than being a greater leveller, the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities, hitting people on lower incomes and those from ethnic minority backgrounds hardest

Professor James Banks, Heidi Karjalainen and Professor Carol Propper consider how the COVID-19 recession will influence future health

It’s the cues in our environment that encourage overeating: regulating the food retail market could be an important part of the solution

Changing the nutrient profile of processed foods could improve the health of entire populations, but it must be part of a broader strategy to be effective

The internet has made healthcare information easily accessible and as a result, the relationship between doctors and patients is changing one of the world’s most common medical procedures

Schools have a critical part to play in providing food environments that support healthy eating habits, but efforts will be futile if governments don’t dismantle neighbourhoods that tend to cause obesity