Tackling health inequalities: The missing delivery mechanisms in national health missions (17 April 2024)

Summary

In recent years, both of the UK's largest political parties have made explicit commitments to tackle the country's geographic health inequalities. In their starkest form, health inequalities—whether based on race, class, gender, geography and so on—will mean that those at the wrong end have, on average, fewer years to live and worse health when alive. This article in IPPR Progressive Review argues that the reason progress on tackling health inequalities is not being made is the failure of national leaders to identify mechanisms of change.