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Health inequities are unfair and avoidable differences in health between groups of people, often linked to factors such as income, education, ethnicity, disability or where people live. Reducing these inequities is an important goal for health systems. However, decisions about health services and policies often rely on systematic reviews, and these reviews rarely consider whether interventions work differently for people who experience health inequities. This paper outlines practical ways to include health equity in all systematic reviews, even when equity is not the primary focus. It explains how reviewers can think about equity when planning a review, assessing who was included in studies, analysing results, and interpreting findings. The aim is to help researchers make better use of existing evidence so that health decisions are fairer and more relevant to everyone.
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LHGP – a year in numbers - infographic 350 webinar attendees at two online events exploring the commercial determinants of health 76 Staff and stakeholders attending our two engagement events 37 interviews conducted with local authority professionals 33 presentations and speeches given at academic conferences 13 research papers contributing to advancing knowledge and discussions in the field 8 policy influences through media interviews, policy consultation responses and more
What does it mean to be healthy? Not just an absence of disease, but a sense of physical, mental and social wellbeing. Not just a longer life, but one with more years spent in health - for all. To find answers, we need to look beyond the individual and the clinical, towards the places and communities in which we live and work. And to make population health a reality, we need policies and approaches that can protect and sustain healthy lives for decades to come. Rising to this challenge, we have established a new national research network. PHI UK is a multi-million pound initiative, integrating expertise from across research, public health and community organisations. We are generating evidence, using data, and applying our insight to find innovative, inclusive and sustainable ways to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce inequalities for people, places and communities across the UK. Read our Annual Review at https://www.phiuk.org/
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Abstract: The links between public health and urban environments emerged as a key narrative during the pandemic. However, despite optimism at the time that this could lead to the re-integration of health in urban development policy there has not been transformative change in this area in England. To understand why not, this article explores COVID-19 as a ‘critical juncture’ for healthy urban development. Critical junctures provide opportunities for change in path-dependent policies if institutional constraints on policy actors are loosened and new ideas and narratives gain support. We interviewed senior Whitehall officials working at the heart of urban development policy in 2021. Drawing on these interviews and analysis of urban development policy documents published in 2023–24, we demonstrate that while there is evidence of increased support amongst policy officials for health which remains visible in recent policy developments, the dominance of institutional agendas and political ideologies that marginalise health policy objectives in city planning in England was not dislodged, limiting the opportunity for radical change. Greater leadership at local and national government levels for preventative health as a cross-sector priority is required to help overcome political and institutional constraints and support incremental change towards policy that will support healthier placemaking.
Professor Anna Gilmore at the Department of Public Health; Director and Principle Investigator of LHGP and Co-Director Centre for 21st Century Public Health, University of Bath said: "the NHS will be unsustainable unless we invest significantly in prevention. As part of this we need to urgently recognise and address the harm caused by commercial products. Currently corporations make excess profits from that harm and we as taxpayers are picking up the costs, meaning corporations have no incentive to change. That needs to change."
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