Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one's well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health ...

Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 28, No. 5 (August 2013), pp. 558-571 (14 pages) Reduction of health inequalities within and between countries is a global health priority, but little is known about ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 46, No. 1, Special Issue: Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants (February 2018), pp. 92-101 (10 pages) Aim: Measuring socioeconomic ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in health care and education access, they become more ...

Andrew Thomas does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has revealed "stark" differences in both self-reported general health and in quality of healthcare for people with autism compared with others. The ...

While prosperous areas average about 11 providers per ZIP code, distressed areas average only about two, and 39 ZIP codes, including Kashmere Gardens, Fifth Ward, and Sunnyside, have no licensed ...

The NHS will be "flying blind" in its attempts to meet its legal, and moral, obligation to eliminate ethnic inequalities in health and care until longstanding problems with the quality of ethnicity ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 07, 2020: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey arrives in Downing Street in central London to attend a Cabinet meeting on 07 January, 2020 in London ...