150 years on, Glasgow still has problems with health inequality. In 2010, the Glasgow Centre for Population Health published a comparison of premature mortality in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.

In some areas there is concerns that ethnic minority groups are falling behind the rest of the population when it comes to ...

Scotland has long been the “sick man of Europe”. Scots’ physical and mental health compares poorly to that other western countries and neighbours within the UK. Glasgow, the largest city, is ...

Nor can any health care system solve such inequalities anywhere. But that's not stopped the Health Committee of the Scottish Parliament from haring off after entirely the wrong idea in trying to ...

This contrast is particularly stark in large cities like Glasgow, ... were noted by one of the researchers who led the study in to health inequality. Dr.

Award-winning author Darren McGarvey joined Minister Ashley Dalton and MPs from across the political spectrum yesterday to demand urgent government action on health inequalities that are cutting lives ...

Dr Gerry McCartney, head of the Public Health Observatory at NHS Health Scotland, said: "Reducing health inequalities has been identified as a priority issue for the Scottish government.

Avoidable health problems caused by social factors – as opposed to biology and genetics – are causing large-scale health inequalities in the UK, ... a village by the Glasgow-Edinburgh railway.

Health chiefs have been warned Glasgow “cannot weather the storm” of repeated budget cuts, after they agreed plans to cut over 145 jobs to cover a £42.5m gap. A supported living service for the ...

Health is a product of social life and increasing inequality in wealth leads to increasing inequality in health. Research in the USA found overwhelming evidence of this. George Kaplan and his ...

WITH vital culture and leisure services under threat in Scotland's largest city with Glasgow Life, the charity which runs them, losing £38million… ...