Creating change for the people of Dorset

OUR DORSET HEALTH INEQUALITIES

Dorset’s health inequalities group is a multi-agency group which oversees our work on health inequalities, supporting our approach to reducing health inequalities through raising awareness, creating learning and development opportunities and supporting services to think differently to create new ways of delivery.

Overview of health inequalities

Statistics in life expectancy and population from Dorset’s Integrated Care System (ICS) for a broader overview on how the health inequalities compares in the Dorset region.

Understanding
health inequalities

Here you will find resources for the Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) and health inequality reports, which provide data on health disparities across the region.

Tackling
health inequalities

Health inequalities are systematic, unfair, and avoidable differences in health across the population and between different groups in society, influenced by a range of factors.

Introducing
health literacy

Health literacy is about fairness and sharing power between patients and healthcare professionals. Find out more about health literacy and explore real-life examples.

The
Virtual Academy

The Virtual Academy aims to address inequalities in health outcome and promote access to healthcare with written, video, and podcast materials to learn more.

We did not ask,
but we are now!

The Did Not Attend (DNA) project in Dorset aims to understand what causes people to miss healthcare appointments and what we can do about it in Dorset.

Want to explore more topics
on health inequalities?

Expand your knowledge on health inequalities across a range of topics, from building sustainable communities to giving every child the best start in life, and so much more.

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