Reducing Heqalth Inequalities Through New Models of Care: A Resource for New Care Models

Our latest report provides analysis of opportunities for new models of care and place-based health systems to improve health and reduce health inequalities. A video interview with and blog post by Michael Marmot accompany the report. Read more via this link.

Watch the video interview with Michael Marmot, by Jacquie White – Director-National System Transformation Group, NHSE & Non-Exec or-PiF

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Local Action on Health Inequalities: Understanding and Reducing Ethnic Inequalities in Health

Led by Public Health England, and co-produced with University of Sheffield and the UCL Institute of Health Equity, this report aims to inform local and national action by PHE and other bodies.

The resource aims to:

• promote an integrated approach to reducing health inequalities by drawing out relationships between different forms of inequality and by highlighting the root causes
• clarify basic concepts and terms
• provide material on ethnicity and health for use in local joint strategic needs assessments and local health and wellbeing strategies
• inform local discussion and action on ethnic health inequalities
• identify key gaps in data by ethnic group and areas in need of better evidence for action.

Read the full reeport and related blog

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Healthy High Streets - Good place-making in an urban setting - by Sorcha Daly and Jessica Allen for Public Health England (PHE).  Read the full report via this link. The report focusses on the following approaches, shown to have direct and indirect impacts on health:

1. High street diversity
2. Green and blue infrastructure
3. Traffic calming
4. Street furniture
5. Crime prevention and security

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Voluntary Sector Action on the Social Determinants of Health is a new evidence review by IHE,  commissioned by the Health Foundation and developed in collaboration with New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). 

The report is designed to help charities,  with no exisiting health focus, to understand the evidence about how their social interventions improve people’s health.  Read the full report via this link.

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Psychosocial pathways and health outcomes: Informing action on health inequalities

This new PHE report by Dr Ruth Bell  highlights current evidence that exists about the relationships between social determinants, psychosocial factors and health outcomes. It also provides a conceptual framework that focuses on the psychosocial pathway.  Find the full report at this link

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