McKee and Stuckler Respond

Austere or not? UK coalition government budgets and health inequalities.

Aaron Reeves, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, Michael Marmot and David Stuckler Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 1UQ, UK Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA Department of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Corresponding author: ...

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Martin McKee: champion of public health in Europe.

McKee's laptop is always running while he travels, and he is known for his “legendary ability to write influential and original articles at lightning speed”, says Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where McKee is also based. As Professor of European Public Health, McKee is bold and outspoken: he issues unapolog...

Chapter 1 – INTRODUCTION by Brian McKee , Angela R . Febbraro

Since 1990, there has been a significant increase in the number of military operations that have required North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) nations to contribute forces as part of a multinational coalition or alliance. Moreover, the range of mission types has broadened to include peacekeeping, peacesupport, and humanitarian operations. This trend is expected to continue. There is eviden...

Did mass privatisation really increase post-communist mortality?

In this document, we describe more fully the methods and results summarized in our letter to The Lancet. We begin by presenting our replication of the cross-country analysis reported in Stuckler, King, and McKee (henceforth SKM). We then proceed to an alternative research design, where we explore the relationship between privatisation and mortality across Russian regions. Finally, we revisit th...