Women in poor UK areas live shorter, less healthy lives
Independent - 04-Jul-2025Future health care could improve these numbers, but big differences remain
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Action needed to address men’s health crisis in England
Independent - 24-Apr-2025Health leaders call for public input on a national strategy to close the life expectancy gap
Victorian diseases resurge amid growing health inequality
The Guardian - 03-Apr-2025Doctors urge action as poverty-linked diseases like scabies and malnutrition rise in the UK
Wealth can’t buy longer life in the U.S., study finds
Brown University - 02-Apr-2025Even the richest Americans live shorter lives, tied to inequality and lifestyle risks
Six decades of inequality: how income shapes life expectancy in Sweden
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - 31-Mar-2025Study finds widening health gap tied more to lifestyle than income
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It
Book about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their bodies written by Alyson McGregor
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine
Institute of Health Equity (IHE)
Established by UCL to develop and support approaches to health equity
Equality in Longevity Blog Posts
19-Apr-2018
Inequality and Threat
A look at the risk of inequality between rich and poor being polarised to extreme
