Health disparities white paper
Health disparities white paper Doing a fair few talks at a fair few meetings on “what are we doing, or going to do about health inequalities” or similar. Note here. Steal / use as you want to NB – I don’t know what is IN the forthcoming White Paper. Here are some of my thoughts and hopes. 1 introductory stuff Language and framing What to call it Lots of discussion and questions from field at the recent LGA / ADPH conference on what we “call it”. Everyone in the field calls it “health inequalities”. There is something on use of language to appeal to different audiences – the recipient of a message may be more willing to hear some framing and language than others. Don’t just think of “health”. Disparities in health, inequalities or any title is an economic issue. Poor productivity and impact on health and vice versa Models of evidence We also need to move on from in...