{"id":28,"date":"2018-06-23T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:50:30","slug":"introduction-about-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/introduction-about-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: About this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left Canada in 2013, I wrote a blog called &#8216;Health as if Everybody Counted&#8217; for a provincially funded network called the Population Health Improvement Research Network.\u00a0 (The blog is no longer online, but selected postings were revised for <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianscholars.ca\/book\/population-health-in-canada\/\">a book published by Canadian Scholars Press<\/a>).\u00a0 The blog&#8217;s title was inspired by the motto of Michael Connelly&#8217;s frequently insubordinate fictional homicide detective Harry Bosch: &#8216;Everybody counts or nobody counts&#8217;.\u00a0 Now, I share Bosch&#8217;s insubordinate tendencies, but more importantly the egalitarianism of that credo seemed to me appropriate for a blog that focused on advances and setbacks in reducing health inequity.\u00a0 It occurred to me around the end of the last decade that the time was right to resurrect that blog as a vehicle for commentary on these same issues many years on, and as a way of alerting interested people to new and exciting (or alarming) research findings and policy initiatives.\u00a0 I hope it&#8217;s of interest.\u00a0 I have now retired to the hilltop from which the sunset in the image header was viewed, but will continue posting.\u00a0 All views expressed here are mine alone or those of authors cited or quoted.<\/p>\n<p>Readers are likely also to be interested in a similar but more internationally oriented blog,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peah.it\/\"> Policies for Equitable Action to Health,<\/a> which is run by Italian Member of the European Parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peah.it\/biosketch\/\">Daniele Dionisio<\/a> and sometimes kindly reposts my materials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/files\/2018\/08\/88x31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This work is licenced under a Creative Commons 4.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">Attribution-NonCommercial-Noderivatives 4.0 International licence<\/a>.\u00a0 Reproduction or reposting with appropriate credit is encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left Canada in 2013, I wrote a blog called &#8216;Health as if Everybody Counted&#8217; for a provincially funded network called the Population Health Improvement Research Network.\u00a0 (The blog is no longer online, but selected postings were revised for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/introduction-about-this-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1834,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}