Summary of UK health inequalities

The King's Fund has published a summary of health inequalities in the UK ahead of an expected national election.

Health inequalities in a nutshell defines health inequalities as: "avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people". It covers several key areas including:

• What are health inequalities?
• How are they measured?
• The deprivation gap
• Influencing factors
• The effect of COVID-19

View the full summary via The King's Fund website here.