We’ve spent decades tweaking food pyramids into plates, slapping labels on packages, and taxing sodas—yet most Americans ...

The report highlights both progress and challenges in Ireland’s efforts to promote social inclusion, showing a mixed picture of improving economic conditions alongside worsening health ...

Tackling health inequalities Tackling health inequalities has long been a core part of NICE’s work and is enshrined in our principles. This month we published a modular update to our health technology ...

Inequality continues to kill people on a “grand scale” across the world, experts have warned, with factors like poor housing and a lack of education and jobs influencing health more than ...

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 ...

The UKHSA estimated that, as well as the costs to the social, physical and mental health of communities, “inequalities in emergency infectious disease hospital admissions cost the NHS between £ ...

Nutritional inequality, particularly among women and children, represents one of the most critical public health challenges in India today. Despite significant strides in economic growth and ...

S ocial determinants of health—factors such as housing, education, neighborhood, and income—have increasingly entered health policy conversations as a growing body of research reveals the ...

Health inequalities remain rampant after the pandemic, but there is hope in local action. Image: Unsplash Guddi Singh will never forget the four-year old boy who came in to see her, his legs bowed ...

“It’s not just a Department for Health and Social Care focus area”. Devolution of health to the more local level “allows you to work more effectively with other areas like housing, transports, skills ...

A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas. These mutually exclusive populations are divided along familiar fault lines, including race, ethnicity, income and address.