Unhealthy Environments

Question 1

What is meant by the Glasgow Effect?

Answer 1

The Glasgow effect refers to the unexplained poor health and low life expectancy of residents of Glasgow, Scotland, compared to the rest of the United Kingdom and Europe.

Question 2

Why is Glasgow struggling?

Answer 2

• Lagged effects of historic deprivation
• Younger, skilled workers relocated to new towns
• Greater gentrification seen in the 1980

Question 3

What can we do about health inequality?

Answer 3

• Funding
• Structural improvements
• Address the postcode lottery
• Addressing ‘allostatic stress’

Question 4

What is allostatic stress?

Answer 4

Allostatic load is “the wear and tear on the body” that accumulates as an individual is exposed to repeated or chronic stress.

Question 5

Where are the most disadvantaged people in the UK mainly found?

Answer 5

Rural areas

Question 6

Why is there a rural disadvantage?

Answer 6

• Poor broadband speeds
• Housing costs
• Employment opportunity
• Transportation
• Social Isolation

Question 7

What is social isolation?

Answer 7

Social isolation can be defined as having few close relationships or social ties in the community.
More over 65’s are living alone than ever before.

Question 8

What is an example of governmental intervention for wellbeing?

Answer 8

Smoking ban of 2007

Question 9

What was the right to buy scheme?

Answer 9

“Right to Buy” is a scheme under which longstanding local authority tenants are entitled to purchase their homes at a heavily discounted price

Question 10

Why was the right to buy scheme a problem for the availability of housing?

Answer 10

Because the social housing was bought off the market, but not replaced with other housing. Therefore availability went down.

Question 11

What is the bedroom tax?

Answer 11

The bedroom tax is a cut in housing benefit if you live in a council or housing association home and are classed as having a spare bedroom.

Question 12

How much is net rent cut by?

Answer 12

14% for one spare room

25% for two or more spare rooms

Question 13

What are problems with the right to buy system?

Answer 13

What if there are no suitable houses to move into?

We have a shortage of council houses in many parts of the UK

Question 14

What did the 2011 localism act do?

Answer 14

Gave local authorities the power to to set eligibility for local housing

Question 15

How much did the relocation of families outside of London rise from 2010 - 2012?

Answer 15

100%. Rose from 21 in 2010/11 to 222 in 2011/12.

Question 16

What is the author and date of the social housing reading?

Answer 16

Thompson et al, 2007

Question 17

How can indaquate housing impinge upon health?

Answer 17

Can impact on respiratory problems, infections, asthma, injuries and mental health problems.
(Thompson et al, 2007)

Question 18

Which area of London has the most acute social housing shortages?

Answer 18

Newham. 32,000 people on waiting lists (Thompson et al, 2007)

Question 19

What did the stresses of housing do to the health of participants in Thompson et al, 2007’s study?

Answer 19

Made participants unhappy, exacerbated existing medical conditions and sometimes made them ill.

Question 20

Who did the study on smoking spaces of wellbeing?

Answer 20

Tan, 2013

‘’ Smoking spaces as enabling spaces of wellbeing’’

Question 21

How did the participants of Tan’s study in Singapore describe smoking?

Answer 21

• Smoking releases me from personal tension at work

Question 22

How have smoking bans been described by Geographers?

Answer 22

Function as a means of spatial purification

Question 23

How can smoking enable a sense of social wellbeing?

Answer 23

Interconnections between people enables a sense of social well-being, which would shed light on Singaporeans unreceptive stance on anti-smoking governmental campaigns.