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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Health inequality has been much discussed at learned seminars. In 2010 a ground-breaking report for the government in England by Sir Michael Marmot set out the social factors governing health and ...

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.