Report - Level up: How life sciences can address the greatest health challenges and reduce inequalities (LCP, November 2022)

Summary

This report by LCP Health Analytics, looks at how inequalities across the medicine life cycle impact patients and populations. It paints a vision of what success could look like, and proposes specific, feasible calls to action across industry, health technology assessment (HTA) bodies and players that could transform the role of the life science sector in reducing inequalities and fostering healthy populations.

The report identifies two key challenges in addressing health inequalities that are tractable, and where the life science sector is most likely to make commitments and contributions:

1. Multimorbidity is increasing and embedding inequalities in health
2. Financial incentives across health systems are not aligned with patient and population health