Addressing Health Inequalities: How can the Marmot Reviews help us?
"We repeat: the problem is not poor ‘choices’; the problem is poverty.... The rhetoric of the “undeserving poor” as justification for...
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Mar 9, 20212 min read
Global inequalities in capability to adapt to climate change
What is climate change adaptation? According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, adaptation is “the actions that...
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Feb 27, 20214 min read
Forests, poverty and health
The importance of understanding zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that pass from animals to humans,social structures and pressures...
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Feb 15, 20215 min read
Rich Grad, Poor Grad: A Degree Alone Won’t Make You Equal
Rich Grad, Poor Grad: A Degree Alone Won’t Make You Equal Imposter Syndrome or Structural Inequalities? The impact of class inequalities...
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
Cambridge Community Kitchen: providing nutritious food to the local community
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many socioeconomic problems in the UK to the fore. In a country with the sixth highest GDP in the...
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Jan 24, 20215 min read
Vaccinating fairly in an unequal society: addressing health inequalities in the UK’s vaccine rollout
News last week that the UK has vaccinated more people than it has had confirmed cases of COVID-19 offered hope to many during a bleak...
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Nov 19, 20204 min read
COVID-19 and Migrant Worker Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to many countries and communities worldwide. However, it is unfortunate that it takes a...
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Nov 14, 20206 min read
Obesity and Poverty: What's the link?
Since the 1980s, the UK has been experiencing an economic boom, but the wealth that has been amassed is far from evenly distributed [1]....
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Nov 6, 20203 min read
Understanding Health: How Does Health Literacy Impact Health Inequalities?
Being able to access, understand, interpret, and apply health information to decisions about our health is a key capability that directly...
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Oct 30, 20204 min read
Can access to green spaces reduce health inequalities?
With pre-existing relationships between deprivation and health inequalities, increasing the amount of green spaces can act as a buffer again
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