The NHS is the largest employer in the UK, has an ethnically diverse workforce, and its aim is to improve
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Category: Healthcare Inequality
Over-65s heart death gap ‘wider’ between rich and poor
An analysis by experts at Imperial College London looked at rates for men and women aged 30-64 and over-65s. The research,
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NHS reforms could tackle the racial inequalities in mental health services
This week’s final Count Me In census is the last report to record the inpatient experience of black and minority
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Health Care’s Inequality Problem
One of the underestimated aspects of Obamacare’s impact on the economy is the effect it’s had in driving inequality. Health
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NHS told to do more to ‘reduce health inequalities’
The report, supported by the British Medical Association, says more needs to be done to reduce the health divide between
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How healthcare differs across the UK
Wales: ‘Patients should have access to the same drugs’ Irfon Williams’s voice cracked as he described how he packed his
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Tackling health inequalities: Reformers must check the evidence
“The poor are always with us”, and in recent decades the gap between the haves and the have-nots in Britain
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PAHO launches new commission on link between inequality and health
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that it
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Our health care system is also a major cure for inequality
The Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) on Tuesday released a new study on the impacts of Canada’s publicly funded health care
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‘Rich-poor’ cancer gap persists
Each year 5,600 people in England miss out on having their cancer diagnosed at an earlier stage because of social
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Black men face inequalities in cancer care
Irecently had a PSA test, a blood test that can detect the early signs of prostate cancer. It came back
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Public Health Dialogue: health inequalities
There was general agreement that we need to support local authorities through these unprecedented changes. There are concerns that although
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Social inequality: A blind spot for health reporters
Dozens of news stories over the past year have reported on the disturbing data showing that Americans are dying younger
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PAHO launches high-level commission on inequality and health in the region
WASHINGTON, United States, Friday May 13, 2016 – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has launched a new Commission
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Closing the Gap on healthcare inequality
Despite Australia having one of the highest life expectancy rates of any country in the world, the Aboriginal and Torres
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A healthy dose of redistribution
THE growing gap between rich and poor is a defining feature of 21st-century America. Barack Obama devoted time to the
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Health inequality widens between richer and poorer Canadians
The gap between the health of richer and poorer Canadians has widened over time for measures such as smoking and
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Obama administration: Insurers must provide services regardless of gender identity
The Obama administration unveiled two broad initiatives Friday aimed at combating discrimination against transgender Americans in schools and health-care coverage,
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It’s time to tackle mental health inequality among black people
With African and Caribbean people far more likely to be diagnosed with a serious mental illness it is fitting that
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The new inequality: Health care
Inequality between the rich and the poor is on the rise, and we’re not just talking income. The wealthy are
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