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These factors often overlap, meaning people can fall into combinations of these categories. This can compound the severity of health inequalities experienced. prevalence of conditions and mortality behavioural risks to health such as smoking the wider ...

Numerous reports since the early 1980s have recognised the links between poverty and poor health. Links were first made by the Black Report in 1980 and further reinforced by the Acheson Report in ...

A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK. The review, funded by the NHS Race and Health Observatory and led by experts from The University of Manchester in ...

COVID-19 has laid the UK’s health inequalities bare and created an imperative for the NHS to develop a step-change in how it cares for diverse and marginalised communities. Health inequality is ...

Chances of hospital admission with infectious disease strongly linked to factors such as ethnicity and deprivation, report says

Of the top 10 areas for health, the list is dominated by regions ... was to provide funding to projects across the UK to end ‘geographical inequality’ across the country.

The Scottish Government have introduced many policies to improve the health of the people of Scotland to reduce health inequalities ... (eg participation in UK-wide high street shopping voucher ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has for the first time set out the ‘stark’ health inequalities faced by those living in the most deprived areas. It includes double the rate of emergency hospital admission for infectious diseases in the fifth most ...

It aims to enhance better understanding of the factors affecting health and health inequalities, increase research capacity and use this evidence to inform future policy and planning and improve health outcomes in areas of high deprivation. We are so proud ...

and to reduce health inequalities. Policy makers need to address urgently the pressures on public services which generate long waiting times and limited services, and are impacting the most disadvantaged in our city. It is vital to recognise and resource ...

data from a longer time period could reveal additional health inequalities. "The majority of mothers in Birmingham and Solihull live in deprived areas, and it is difficult to really understand the ...

Please complete this form to register to be a member of the Health Inequalities theme. If you'd like your research to be featured on this page, email us at scypher@sheffield.ac.uk. Dr Jill Thompson is a senior lecturer in global health and wellbeing.

Our aim is to build the evidence base for interventions to reduce social inequalities in health over the lifecourse. We are supported by a range of national and international funders, including the European Research Council (UKRI guarantee), UK Research ...