To reduce health inequalities, it’s important to invest in prevention, improve access to care, and address the social factors that influence health like housing, education, and income. Services should be better integrated and tailored to community needs, while discrimination in healthcare must be tackled. A coordinated government strategy is essential to ensure all policies support health equity.
Integrated care in action case studies
Showcasing how integrated care systems across England are tackling health inequalities through collaborative, preventative, and community-focused initiatives.
ICSs and multiple disadvantage
Find out how integrated care systems can work with local agencies to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for people facing multiple disadvantage.
What is meant by population health?
What is a ‘population health’ approach? And what role do we all play in keeping our communities healthy? Watch this animation from The King’s Fund to find out.
What is the role of the NHS in inequalities?
A podcast about big ideas in health and care. Talking with experts from The King’s Fund and beyond about the NHS, social care, and all things health policy and leadership.
Building public understanding of health
Read why the public often misunderstands what shapes health and health inequalities, and how better communication can help people recognise the factors that influence health.
Equity and endurance: Tackling inequalities
Explore why health inequalities persist in England and find outlined the long-term, national and local actions needed to create fairer, healthier communities.
Reducing health inequalities | Shona Kelly
In this TEDTalk, Shona Kelly explains how social position and life circumstances drive health inequalities, affecting when people get ill and how long they live.
The social determinants of health
Explore how local government can improve community health by tackling the social conditions – like housing, employment and education – that shape people’s wellbeing.
Addressing the national syndemic
Examine how place‑based, cross‑sector action can tackle the UK’s ‘national syndemic’ by addressing the social conditions driving widening health inequalities.
Build back fairer in Greater Manchester
Professor Sir Michael Marmot’s discussion with Greater Manchester leaders on how to ‘Build Back Fairer’ by advancing health equity in the UK’s first Marmot city region.
Overview of obesity and inequalities
WHO outlines the scale, causes and health impacts of obesity in Europe, and highlights WHO’s strategies to prevent and reduce obesity across the region.
Left behind neighbourhoods
Highlighting the severe health inequalities facing England’s ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods and calls for investment in local social infrastructure to improve health and wellbeing.
