Health inequalities

Health Inequalities

Recent policy on inequalities targeting The drive to reduce health inequalities by targeting health improvement action and resources at the most disadvantaged areas, has been a central theme of recent health policy. This has been reflected in the Health Efficiency Access and Treatment (HEAT) Targets which in specific areas, such as smoking cessation , aims to improve the speed of reduction of m...

Health Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandemics are associated with significant and destructive national and global impacts on health, economy, society, and security. COVID-19 pandemic has imposed adverse economic consequences on the whole population. This is while the elderly and those with comorbidities, the economically disadvantaged and ethnic minorities were at increased risk of viral infection. Moreover, the mortality rate an...

Health Selection and Health Inequalities

Addressing Environmental Health Inequalities

Environmental health inequalities refer to health hazards disproportionately or unfairly distributed among the most vulnerable social groups, which are generally the most discriminated, poor populations and minorities affected by environmental risks. Although it has been known for a long time that health and disease are socially determined, only recently has this idea been incorporated into the...

Inequalities in child health.