While Wales typically outperforms Scotland on key health indicators such as life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, it continues to lag behind England ...
The state of health inequalities in the UK is an injustice that must be urgently addressed; doctors are no longer able to keep picking up the pieces of systemic failures ...
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. These mutually exclusive ...
Adults living in the most deprived fifth of areas in England continue to face higher rates of psychiatric morbidity, according to the latest Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. The survey also found ...
More babies are dying before their first birthday, with those in deprived areas, the North of England and Black and Asian ethnic groups the worst affected, according to new analysis. The analysis—by ...
Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one's well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health ...
The findings confound predictions in some quarters that disadvantaged children, who had worse mental health to start with, would be hardest hit. But even if child mental health has become more equal, ...
Discover Stiglitz's insights on how COVID-19 exposed health and economic inequalities and the potential backlash against globalization in the post-pandemic world.
Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by Richard ...
Aims: The so-called ‘Great Recession’ in Europe triggered widespread concerns about population health, as reflected by an upsurge in empirical research on the health impacts of the economic crisis. A ...
A new health policy brief from Health Affairs with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlights the importance of—and inequalities in—workplace conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic ...