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Briefing: health inequalities and lung disease
www.blf.org.ukTackling health inequalities is an important part of NHS England’s current policy objectives: The Five Year Forward View outlined ambitions to close the health and wellbeing and the care and quality gaps.38 It said that failing to “get serious” about prevention will result in widening health inequalities and stalling life expectancies ...
Social class and its influence on health - EMAP
cdn.ps.emap.comIf health inequalities are to be seriously reduced, society must invest in individuals and environments where deprivation, poverty and economic insecurity are common. An individual’s health and well-being cannot be reduced to genetics, biology or poor lifestyle choices; it is the result of social inequalities (Marmot et al, 2010).
Tackling the attainment gap ... - NHS Health Scotland
www.healthscotland.scotadditional funding to reduce the attainment gap • linking to further resources and forthcoming work which will contribute to informing action on reducing the attainment gap. ‘As with health inequalities, reducing educational inequalities involves understanding the interaction between the social determinants of educational
The Healthy Equity Assessment Tool: A User's Guide
www.health.govt.nzHealth inequalities or health inequities (the terms are used interchangeably) are avoidable, ... turnaround of major importance if it can be sustained’.7 The life expectancy gap between Ma¯ori and non-Ma¯ori has closed slightly to 7.6 years in 2000–02 (a reduction of 0.6 years on
Access to health care and minority ethnic groups ...
www.kingsfund.org.ukThe Department of Health and the NHS are therefore committed to reducing a ‘satisfaction gap’ at the same time as reducing health inequalities and inequities in access. Who are Britain’s minority ethnic groups? Minority ethnic groups are most commonly classified according to the methods used by the census,
WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
apps.who.inthealth inequalities need to be universal and inclusive, yet proportionate to need. Targeting resources ... nificant gap still exists in research to measure the problem, and in strategies, policies and programmes to prevent mental disorders. There is a considerable need to raise the priority given to the prevention
The WHO Regional SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
intranet.euro.who.intPolicy and action for health need to address the social determinants of health, attacking the causes of ill health before they can lead to problems. This is a challenging task for both decision-makers and public health actors and advocates. This publication provides the facts and the policy options that will enable them to act. ISBN 92 890 1371 0
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH 2016
www.mentalhealth.org.ukmental health problem, yet only a third have received a diagnosis. The APMS brings to the fore the widening gap between the mental health of young women and young men. Women between the ages of 16 and 24 are almost three times as likely (at 26%) to experience a common mental health problem as their male contemporaries (9%) and
Closing The Attainment Gap What Can Schools Do
www.parliament.scotinequalities that exist within British society’. However, other researchers argue that if the efforts to improve schools to enable them to close the gap are ‘linked to wider actions to break down the additional barriers faced by disadvantaged groups’, then such efforts are ‘worthwhile’ (Kerr et al., 2010: 39).
FACT SHEET THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN CANADA …
canadianwomen.orgThe gender wage gap is the difference in earnings between women and men in the workplace. It is a widely recognized indicator of women’s economic equality, and it exists to some extent in every country in the world. A 2015 UN Human Rights report raised concerns about “the persisting inequalities between women and
Edited by Alissa Goodman and Paul Gregg - JRF
www.jrf.org.ukat improving health, parenting skills and the home learning environment could have further short- and long-term pay-offs. Primary school The gap in attainment between the poorest children and children from better-off backgrounds, already large at age 5, grows particularly fast during the primary school years. By age 11, only around