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 ...

The achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’, requires a better understanding of inequalities in access to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective Socioeconomic inequalities significantly impact access to healthcare services for individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study investigates these inequalities in Iran, ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 46, No. 1, Special Issue: Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants (February 2018), pp. 18-26 (9 pages) Aims: This paper examines the effects of ...

While Wales typically outperforms Scotland on key health indicators such as life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life expectancy in Switzerland has been growing steadily for decades. But have these additional years been spent in good health or do they only prolong the ills of an aging population? New results ...