What are health inequalities and why do they matter?
An introduction to health inequalities
Find out more about health inequalities and what they are from Gloucestershire’s Director of Public Health, Siobhan Farmer 👇
More about health inequalities
- The Kings Fund provides a comprehensive overview of health inequalities (a longer read)
- The UK Government provides a comprehensive of health inequalities and deprivation in England (a longer read)
- Marmot’s Fair Society, Healthy Lives Report (2010) – known as the ‘Marmot Review’, this report by Sir Michael Marmot explores the social and economic costs of health inequalities and the policy objectives that could help to reduce them. (a longer read)
- Marmot’s 10 Years On Review (2020) - this report marks 10 years since the Marmot Review in 2010 (above) and provides an updated summary of the extent, and social and economic cost of health inequalities. (a longer read)
- Marmot’s Build Back Fairer Report (2020) - in this report, Sir Michael Marmot explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted certain communities and widened health inequalities in England.
- The Fair Health Podcast - in this podcast series, Rachel Steen, a healthcare professional working in Primary Care and a health inequalities champion, takes a step back to discuss issues and solutions with experienced colleagues working across the system (a medium listen - podcasts vary from 30 minutes to 1 hour long).
 Tip: the Fair Health website provides a range of other resources including blog posts which are particularly well suited to health colleagues.
- The Kings Fund provides a comprehensive overview of health inequalities (a longer read)
- The UK Government provides a comprehensive of health inequalities and deprivation in England (a longer read)
- Marmot’s Fair Society, Healthy Lives Report (2010) – known as the ‘Marmot Review’, this report by Sir Michael Marmot explores the social and economic costs of health inequalities and the policy objectives that could help to reduce them. (a longer read)
- Marmot’s 10 Years On Review (2020) - this report marks 10 years since the Marmot Review in 2010 (above) and provides an updated summary of the extent, and social and economic cost of health inequalities. (a longer read)
- Marmot’s Build Back Fairer Report (2020) - in this report, Sir Michael Marmot explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted certain communities and widened health inequalities in England.
- The Fair Health Podcast - in this podcast series, Rachel Steen, a healthcare professional working in Primary Care and a health inequalities champion, takes a step back to discuss issues and solutions with experienced colleagues working across the system (a medium listen - podcasts vary from 30 minutes to 1 hour long).
 Tip: the Fair Health website provides a range of other resources including blog posts which are particularly well suited to health colleagues.
- This short, accessible animation demonstrates how our health is shaped, and the importance of taking a person-centred, proactive, and holistic approach:
- This short video from Let’s Learn Public Health builds on Dahlgren and Whitehead Rainbow Model (1991) and provides more detail on how the various factors affecting our health are complex and interact with one another:
- The Health Foundation’s ‘What drives health inequalities?’ Evidence Hub brings together data, insights and analysis exploring how the circumstances in which we live shape our health. This site provides snappy facts and figures with the option to read on if you wish.
- This short, accessible animation demonstrates how our health is shaped, and the importance of taking a person-centred, proactive, and holistic approach:
- This short video from Let’s Learn Public Health builds on Dahlgren and Whitehead Rainbow Model (1991) and provides more detail on how the various factors affecting our health are complex and interact with one another:
- The Health Foundation’s ‘What drives health inequalities?’ Evidence Hub brings together data, insights and analysis exploring how the circumstances in which we live shape our health. This site provides snappy facts and figures with the option to read on if you wish.
- The Local Government Association (LGA), which is the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve local government, has created its own Health Inequalities Hub which explores some of the key issues relevant to, and groups impacted, by health inequalities, by providing a number of brief case studies and think pieces.
- This short video from the BBC highlights the statistic that, in the UK, black women are five times more likely to die during pregnancy:
- The future NHS equality and health inequalities network is a highly recommended resource hub for information and updates about health inequalities. If you join this network by creating an account you can sign up to receive updates when new information is added.
- The Local Government Association (LGA), which is the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve local government, has created its own Health Inequalities Hub which explores some of the key issues relevant to, and groups impacted, by health inequalities, by providing a number of brief case studies and think pieces.
- This short video from the BBC highlights the statistic that, in the UK, black women are five times more likely to die during pregnancy:
- The future NHS equality and health inequalities network is a highly recommended resource hub for information and updates about health inequalities. If you join this network by creating an account you can sign up to receive updates when new information is added.
- The Health Foundation has developed a communications toolkit outlining how we can talk about health inequalities and the building blocks of health in an impactful way. This resource is explained in, and supported by, a Health Foundation webinar.
- The Health Foundation has developed a communications toolkit outlining how we can talk about health inequalities and the building blocks of health in an impactful way. This resource is explained in, and supported by, a Health Foundation webinar.
- The Health Foundation has developed a communications toolkit outlining how we can talk about health inequalities and the building blocks of health in an impactful way. This resource is explained in, and supported by, a Health Foundation webinar.
- The Health Foundation has developed a communications toolkit outlining how we can talk about health inequalities and the building blocks of health in an impactful way. This resource is explained in, and supported by, a Health Foundation webinar.
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