{"id":10899,"date":"2026-03-20T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:40:41","slug":"hi-and-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/hi-and-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Health inequalities and their causes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is ample evidence that social factors, including education, employment status, income level, gender and ethnicity have a marked influence on how healthy a person is. In all countries \u2013 whether low-, middle- or high-income \u2013 there are wide disparities in the health status of different social groups. The lower an individual\u2019s socio-economic position, the higher their risk of poor health.<\/p>\n

Health inequities are systematic differences in the health status of different population groups. These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies.<\/p>\n

This fact file looks at what health inequities are, provides examples and shows their cost to society.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Source: This content was originally published by WHO<\/a>. All credit goes to the original author.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foundation","category-less-10-mins","category-what-are-health-inequalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/inequalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}