The causes of obesity are complex (lifestyle, physical activity, poverty, food insecurity, genetics and obesogenic chemicals all play a role).
These images — of people, mainly black people, many of whom endure drug addiction, physical infirmities, poverty, homelessness, and harassment from the police — have an essential documentary urgency.
Mental-health problems cause more suffering in Britain than physical illness, poverty or unemployment, according to Richard Layard, an economist and author of a book on happiness.
Within the lifetimes of the people he wrote about, physical hardship, poverty, deference and communities centred on the land and the church had been pushed aside by the juggernaut of industrial farming.
People talk about the mobile library being essential to those affected by isolation, physical incapacity, poverty, lack of transport and about the positive impact reading has on mental health and wellbeing, as well as the more expected benefits to education and literacy".
And as Baroness Barbara Wootton pointed out in 1959, commenting on the training of social workers, "Until we have abolished mental and physical illness, poverty and overcrowding, as well as such human frailties as jealousy and self-assertiveness, many of the problems presented are frankly insoluble.
PCBH deserves credit for raising awareness of the particular problems faced by female inmates and the reasons why women are locked up in the first place – sexual and physical abuse, poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, mental health problems, self-harm and bullying all featured strongly in the series.
We live in a world where trans people still experience high levels of verbal harassment, physical assault, poverty and suicide.
In neighbouring countries different language and dialect, different curricula, limited or no learning spaces, physical safety, poverty, and community tensions are keeping children away from classes.
