“Publishing the article via open access enhanced its accessibility to policy makers and practitioners.” Let’s hear from the team that wrote this 2017 article published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
The systematic review was led by a multidisciplinary team of Public Health Consultants, Health Economists and Academics, whose day to day work aims to guide public health policy and practice. What inspired you to pursue research in this particular area? We started work on the paper in 2014/15 when the UK Government was looking to make efficiency savings to public health budgets. We were concerned that these efficiency savings represented a false economy that would generate many billions of additional future costs to the NHS and wider UK economy and wanted to articulate what the potential opportunity cost of these cuts would be. The majority of us as authors are based in and around Liverpool, and can see the day to day impact that cuts to funding has on the fabric of our great city. We can see the disparities that exist within our own communities, and wanted our public health and academic practice to shine a light on the challenges that people face. Good health is hard to achieve and maintain, and too often there is a gap between policy, practice and lived experience within public health. We wanted to highlight the significant negative impact that budget cuts would have on peoples health, and how that would cost more to fix further down the line.
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