Inclusive health is about making sure everyone, especially people who are socially excluded, can access good healthcare. This includes groups like homeless people, migrants, and others who often face discrimination or barriers to care. It works by removing these barriers, offering tailored services, and making sure these groups are counted in health data. The goal is to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for those who are most at risk.
Health challenges faced by the homeless
The video examines the health challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness, highlighting barriers to accessing GPs and the resulting rise in illnesses, alongside the charities providing frontline medical support.
Promoting the voices of homeless communities
The report highlights how people experiencing homelessness in Dorset face significant barriers to accessing respectful, timely health and social care, contributing to deep health inequalities.
Rough sleeping and health
This video features Dena Pursell sharing her lived experience of rough sleeping, the challenges of accessing healthcare while homeless, and her work supporting others as a homeless health care navigator.
Sleeping rough during COVID-19 and beyond
Podcast episode exploring the lived experience of homelessness and the challenges people face in accessing health care, highlighting how services can better support people.
TEDx Talk: Medicine on the margins
TEDx talk by Dr Austin O’Carroll exploring why people experiencing homelessness struggle to access healthcare, the psychological and systemic barriers involved, and how services can be redesigned.
Dying in the cold: Homeless at end of life
Report highlighting people that experiencing homelessness often die young and face major barriers to accessing palliative and end‑of‑life care, calling for better‑coordinated, compassionate support.
Action on inclusion health
Framework outlining how the NHS should reduce health inequalities by improving access, experiences and outcomes for people who are socially excluded through coordinated, inclusive services.
Inclusive health: Inclusive practice report
Inclusive health summarises evidence on how inclusive primary care models can improve access and reduce avoidable hospital admissions for socially excluded groups.
Left out in the cold: Unmet health needs
Examining the unmet health and support needs of street‑based sex workers, highlighting how stigma, violence, and homelessness, have left many excluded.
