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How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically -- and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas.
Health inequality arising from income and wealth inequality isn't the only way inequality can affect economic growth and intergenerational mobility. For example, ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare existing inequalities in workplace exposure to health risks and economic insecurity. Policy action is needed to protect workers’ health during the pandemic ...
Health policy experts have identified health inequality as an area requiring serious attention and as a core area of concern for the new Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The landmark Marmot review, ...
Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...
Health inequalities have been laid bare as never before by Covid-19 so now, with the worst of the pandemic hopefully behind us, we have a new flag to unite behind.
Existing health disparities amongst ethnic minorities with diabetes have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published in the journal Diabetes Care has reported.
Study: How co-locating public mental health interventions in community settings impacts mental health and health inequalities: a multi-site realist evaluation.Image Credit: Monkey Business Images ...
Post-COVID-19 health inequalities: Estimates of the potential loss in the evolution of the health-related SDGs indicators. PLOS ONE, 2024; 19 (7): e0305955 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305955; ...
Institutional racism is to blame for a lack of funding to investigate ethnic disparities in healthcare in the decade before the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard.. That the UK had never ...
Health inequality is the biggest issue facing Scotland right now, the chief medical officer has warned. Sir Harry Burns told MSPs the issue could not be solved by the NHS alone, and more effort ...
A new partnership between academic and health bodies has been announced with the aim of tackling health inequalities. The Arden Health Partnership (AHP) has been formed by the University of ...