Our health inequalities guidance supports strategies that ... 1993) as a simple - but effective - map of the causes of health inequalities. This can guide effective strategies to reduce them. System ...

It shows not just in places, but in people. Life expectancy in the UK has stalled since 2011, more than in other high-income countries. New analysis published by the Health Foundation based on ...

Inequalities expert Prof Michael Marmot, who is director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, wrote in a recent Guardian article that the pandemic has exacerbated existing disparities in health ...

The reasons for widening health inequalities may be complex, but one contributing factor is the huge growth in economic inequality in the UK over the past 30 years.

On average, somebody living in the most deprived areas of the UK will die almost a decade earlier than somebody living in one of the country’s richest areas. This is the bluntest example of what is ...

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 ...

The Labour MP hosted a coalition of more than 80 organisations and 77 MPs calling for a cross-government strategy to tackle ...

A first-of-its-kind health inequality tracker allows people in England to check health and wealth statistics in their local area. It comes as progressive think tank The Institute for Public Policy ...

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.

Tackling inequality head-on, the UK’s highly regarded Equality Trust makes clear in a powerful new report, has become “both a moral and economic necessity.”. This new Equality Trust report ...

Countries with higher levels of inequality, such as the UK and the US, typically have much higher rates. This relationship also exists for mental health. The figure below, from the book, shows ...

The USA and the UK share many features. One is a language. Another is that they are both among the richest nations on earth. They also share a darker side: both are highly unequal societies.