Professor Dame Sally Davies’s tenth report as Chief Medical Officer, published just before Christmas 2018, examines the strategic opportunities over the coming two decades for the health of the nation. The report includes a detailed look at how principles for changing behaviour to improve health and reduce health inequalities could be applied, authored by Professor […]
Emphasis on individual choice has limited Government attempts to reduce health inequalities, according to new analysis of UK public health policies
In a study published today in the Journal of Public Health, researchers from the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe find that theory and evidence on health inequalities drawn from history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, biology and neuroscience have been largely ignored in a series of government efforts to limit health inequalities and reduce non-communicable diseases over the […]
For richer, for poorer: how could political pledges to tackle health inequalities be realised?
Join the debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017! Wednesday 25 October: 6:00pm – 7:00pm Christ’s College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre, St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3BU Join this panel discussion chaired by Professor Dame Theresa Marteau: How many years less can the poorest 5% of people expect to live compared to the richest 5%? How […]