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The Somali Mental Health Association in Sheffield meets with NHS Clinical Director for Mental Health Tim Kendall to discuss the impact of inequalities and stigma on people’s mental health. Find out more about how the NHS is working to break down barriers and reduce mental health inequalities. www.england.nhs.uk/blog/breaking-down-barriers-and ...

Professor John Newton outlines what commissioners and local authorities can do to reduce health inequalities experienced by those living with or recovering from mental illness, so that they achieve the same health outcomes and life expectancy as the rest of the population. Health Matters collection page: http://bit.ly/Healthmatters.

Sarah Hughes, Chief Executive, Centre of Mental Health

Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home David Harewood investigates what the high Covid-19 death rates in black and minority ethnic patients reveal about health inequality in modern Britain. Why is Covid Killing People of Colour? | Series 1 Episode 1 | BBC ...

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/UzxyNc8vuNs Traditional risk factors for mental illness include genetics, perinatal factors, substance use, negative life events, trauma and organic disorders. Yet, more recently, it has been found that higher rates of mental illness are also seen in minoritised and marginalised groups. This lecture ...

Panorama goes inside one of the UK's largest frontline mental health trusts. With funding cuts drastically reducing bed numbers, we follow the teams through their daily decision making of who to let in and who send home. We film with the nurses as they deal with the suicidal, aggressive and the isolated in the community and hear how the system ...

Throughout my career in mental health services, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of different ‘inequalities’ on different groups. As a consultant psychiatrist working with homeless people, almost all the people I work with face inequalities, often simply in terms of access to food and shelter. Sometimes inequalities are felt ...

The Community Empowerment Act is an important new piece of Scottish legislation with opportunities to reduce health inequalities through the redistribution of power – but that depends on us really understanding what power is, where power lies and how this relates to health. http://www.healthscotland.scot/health-inequalities/fundamental-causes ...

📌 The Mental Health Crisis in the UK: What You Need to Know Mental health is an essential aspect of overall well-being, yet the UK is facing a mounting mental health crisis. In this video, we’ll explore: What is mental health? A broad look at emotional, psychological, and social well-being and its impact on daily life. Key statistics: 1 in ...

Health Inequalities Expert Advisory Group Chair Dr Owen Williams OBE explains the eight urgent actions for the NHS to tackle health inequalities as the NHS continues to respond to the Covid19 pandemic.

Watch this film about Kareem and his mum Fazilla’s experience of reasonable adjustments and the difference it makes to them when reasonable adjustments are offered.

Oxford GP Dr Kiren Collison, member of the Health Inequalities Expert Advisory Group, explains why now is the time for action on health inequalities as the NHS continues to respond to the Covid19 pandemic.

Read the latest edition of Health Matters, our professional resource, for advice on how to deliver and commission services for those with severe mental illness.

http://rightproperty.com The Glasgow Effect describes the widest differences in life expectancy in the UK, between 54 years in some areas compared to 82 years in the more affluent areas. There are significant health inequalities in terms of mortality, physical illness, mental health and wellbeing, lifestyle behaviours associated with ill health ...

Health inequalities are the unfair and avoidable differences in the health of people in our society. They do not occur randomly and are determined by the social factors largely outside of an individual's control. In this video, we discuss the social determinants of health and look at why they are crucial in understanding the causes of, and ...

Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Lecture Series: Social inequalities in health Ann Morning, Ph.D. New York University Dorothy Roberts, J.D. University of Pennsylvania Jo Phelan, Ph.D. Columbia University Friday May 8, 2015, 2:00pm - 3:00pm Natcher Conference Center Balcony B, NIH Campus, Bethesda

Drawing on our five-year programme of work on health inequalities, we outline what we think the anticipated 10-year health plan should focus on.

This film is a short visual walk through of the NHS Long-Term Plan commitment on community mental health transformation. The video outlines essential information and learnings on the development of new integrated models of primary and community mental health for people with severe mental illness (SMI). It describes the principles of the already ...

At our Improving health in urban communities event, The King’s Fund and independent health foundation Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity explored the complex and dynamic reality of urban space and how it impacts on our health. We heard best practice examples from a line-up of UK and international speakers, including top policy-makers and ...

The COVID-19 highlighted Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the UK were at greater risk of death from the virus. Dr. Jenny Douglas explores racial inequalities in healthcare over the past 25 years in this article and video Transcript link - http://media-podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/4759/20211215T150129_Transcript-Racial_Inequalities_In ...

UEA INNOVATION AND IMPACT AWARDS 2022 FINALIST: OUTSTANDING IMPACT IN HEALTH, WELBEING AND WELFARE Dr Apostolos Davillas Norwich Medical School During the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Dr Davillas responded to health and welfare policy needs by undertaking research to provide very timely evidence to measure and analyse ...

NHS England has launched its first ever anti-racism framework: the Patient and carer race equality framework (PCREF), for all NHS mental health trusts and mental health service providers to embed across England. This mandatory framework will support trusts and providers on their journeys to becoming actively anti-racist organisations by ...

Research has shown us that gender, ethnicity and social class have a strong impact on our health, yet the simple fact is that no one is just a man or woman, or just black or white, or just working-class or middle-class. Instead, we have multiple characteristics that shape our lives. This video - created by a research team in the Department of ...

The context of health inequalities, social determinants and personalised care; what is needed now – health creation, changing the way care is delivered, Dan Hopewell, Director of Innovation, Bromley by Bow Centre

Trans people are much more likely to access mental health services than the general population. Why is this, and why do they often report such negative experiences? Which elements of our practice should we as service providers be rethinking to reverse this trend? Welcome back! This is the third in a series of four films covering the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in our society, and multiplied the suffering of some of our most deprived communities. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) That is the conclusion of a landmark report on health inequality led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot. He says social deprivation must be addressed in the wake ...

These three films, produced by the National Social Marketing Centre, follow the work of three ground-breaking projects taking place across Europe that address the social determinants of health. For more information on the NSMC's social determinants of health programme, please contact Luke van der Beeke l.vanderbeeke@nsmcentre.org.uk. The first ...

In 2022, the Health Foundation carried out an independent review of health and health inequalities in Scotland to provide a detailed and thorough analysis of the health trends and wider factors that have influenced people’s health in Scotland over the last two decades. Watch this video to learn more about the review.

John Walsh, Organisational Development Lead and Freedom To Speak Up Guardian at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, on tackling health inequalities in West Yorkshire and Harrogate. Part of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership 'Next Steps' series.

Reducing inequalities in access to general practice services For more information on reducing inequalities and improving access to general practice services, visit us at the links provided: www.uea.ac.uk/GPstudy https://www.england.nhs.uk/gpaccess https://www.england.nhs.uk/equality-hub

This video fact file looks at what health inequities are, provides examples and shows their cost to society. Health inequities are systematic differences in the health status of different population groups according to socioeconomic status. These inequities have significant social and economic costs, in addition to the health costs, both to ...

Our Health Inequalities research is focused on the persistent and unfair gaps in health and wellbeing between different groups in society, how to identify their causes and how to reduce them. In this video, Professor Rich Mitchell and Professor Jason Gill discuss these ideas and how this research is made possible at the University of Glasgow. # ...

Professor Bola Owolabi, Director – Health Inequalities at NHS England, visits Somerset to see a service designed to reduce healthcare inequalities for people experiencing homelessness. Bola meets the healthcare professionals delivering the service as well as those benefiting from the service and volunteers supporting the service who have ...

Why are global levels of anxiety and depression so high? Social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson presents compelling data on the impact of inequality on mental health and social relationships in countries around the world. "Inequality," he says, "is the enemy between us." Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts ...

Learn about strategies that healthcare systems can use to identify and eliminate health inequities affecting their patients. For further information about how these strategies are being used to improved care for Veterans, visit: VA.gov/healthequity/

Asking the question: what is the impact of social inequality on women admitted to medium and low secure services within St Andrew’s Healthcare. This animation was produced as part of an NHS England funded project exploring the impact of inequality on mental illness. You can also get access to our publication here: The impact of inequality on ...

Paul Dorrington is a Lead Employment Specialist who uses the IPS model to support people living with severe mental illness into a stable job. He shares the difference IPS can make to people's lives and how it can play a crucial role in recovery. We want everyone with a mental health difficulty to be able to access the help they need to find ...

Developed in partnership by Clinical Scholars and the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), this video explains the foundational impact of structural racism, social determinants of health and their impact on historically marginalized populations and steps necessary to achieving health equity in affected communities. Links to learn more ...

Health Inequalities Expert Advisory Group Chair Dr Owen Williams OBE sets out why comprehensive, accurate data on patients and populations is a key priority for the NHS as it continues to respond to the Covid19 pandemic.

This video is part of our Tackling health inequalities: seven priorities for the NHS project. Find out more here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/tackling-health-inequalities-seven-priorities-nhs

In 2015, the United Nations created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to address a broad range of social, environmental and, economic challenges and create a sustainable and equitable future for all. Over recent years, research has deepened our understanding of the profound ways in ...

Laura Duncan, Senior Lecturer at University of Chester's Faculty of Health and Social Care, talks about why stigma and discrimination are so important to consider when it comes to mental health.

Decades of research has shown that the health of the population in England is unequal, with people who live in more deprived areas experiencing illness earlier in life and dying younger. Previous Health Foundation analysis has projected that 9.3 million people could be living with major illness by 2040, which is 2.6 million, or 39%, more people ...

Published in 2010, The Marmot Review was a landmark study of health inequalities in England. While there has been progress in some areas since 2010, there is growing evidence that health inequalities are widening and life expectancy is stalling. The Health Foundation is working with Professor Sir Michael Marmot and his team at the Institute of ...

Join Douglas Badenoch as he speaks with Professor Deborah Cairns, Director of the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory (https://www.sldo.ac.uk/), in this podcast preview from the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Annual Scientific Meeting. They discuss the alarming health disparities faced by people with learning disabilities ...

Ruth Shim, University of California, Davis

On average, the lower your social position in society, the sooner you develop health problems in your life, the more sick you will be, and the sooner you will die – this is called health inequalities Shona Kelly is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Research at the Department of Social Work, Social Care and Community Studies, Sheffield ...

In the UK, over 280,000 people are living without a place to call home, yet the government continues to fail the homeless. Despite having the resources to solve the crisis, the response from the government remains shockingly inadequate. With rising housing costs, insufficient funding for homeless services, and lack of long-term solutions, the ...

In 2025, the UK is facing an alarming array of challenges that make it increasingly difficult to live there. The skyrocketing cost of living, housing crisis, rising crime rates, and a growing mental health epidemic are just a few of the issues plaguing the nation. As inflation pushes everyday expenses to unprecedented levels, many Britons are ...