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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 ...

THE University of Worcester has received a £2.2 million grant to study mental health inequalities. The funding, from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Mental Health Research Leader Award, will allow the university to create a new Rural Mental Health Research Unit.

In the last UK election in 2019, the NHS emerged as a major talking point, as the scale of the country’s support of the service was brought to the fore. Now, with health inequality a growing ...

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 ...

Taking an intersectional perspective recognises that inequalities and their determinants are complex and multi-dimensional. This workstream is explicitly interdisciplinary, aiming to generate collaborations across social science, public health, medicine ...

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 ...

UK public health activities have been further strengthened ... of public health interventions with the aim of improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. Our Food and Nutrition Group includes nutritionists, dietitians, public health ...

LONG-STANDING inequalities in Warrington were ‘amplified’ by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report. A report providing an overview of the health inequalities resulting from the pandemic will come before the protecting the most vulnerable policy committee at its meeting on Wednesday.

Our priority is to improve population health and reduce inequalities by developing, implementing and evaluating effective and equitable initiatives in women’s health, global health, the food environment and individual lifestyle. The Global Public ...

A fifth of patients in some areas of the North of England have Long Covid, according to a study which includes university of Manchester researchers. Navigating the Long Haul: Understanding Long Covid in Northern England, published by Health Equity North ...

"The diverse population included in our study provides high enough numbers to meaningfully investigate inequalities by ... Frontiers in Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.

Children living in poorer areas of Oxfordshire are significantly more likely to suffer from mental health problems, a new report has found. Oxfordshire County Council's director of public health ...

She works for Positively UK, an organisation aiming to protect the health and wellbeing ... that aims to tackle health inequalities across East London. She brings expertise on methodologies and equitable production of public health knowledge, including ...

A new study presented today at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2025 reveals significant socioeconomic inequalities ... urgent need for robust public health strategies that not ...

Monday 7 April 2025 – 09:20 CEST - A new study presented today at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2025 reveals significant socioeconomic inequalities in unmet needs for mental ...

One of the key priorities of Scottish governments has been to tackle health inequalities. a ban on smoking in enclosed public places ... (eg participation in UK-wide high street shopping voucher ...

Research reveals inequalities in MMR vaccination that may contribute to measles outbreaks and epidemics, emphasising the importance of socioeconomic and demographic data in driving public health efforts.

Concerns of inequality have been raised around pregnant ... according to the latest statistics from Public Health Scotland. Being overweight increases the chance of complications for both ...

Health inequalities are worsening across the UK and the wider world due to socioeconomic factors ... declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. Competing interests None declared.

and public and private sector partners. 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 ...

consequence of the social bias of focusing on leisure time physical activity is that physical activity research and practice has not had the impact it could have had on one of the most critical public health challenges—socioeconomic inequalities in health.

according to the first study of its kind by the UK Health Security Agency. The agency said inequalities in health protection “have a high human cost” and “a wider societal impact ...