It is often assumed that those on low incomes and with low levels of education are overly represented in the major increase in obesity of recent decades.
Nov 12, 2012
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Welfare rights advice has been shown to help patients with cancer and their carers receive millions in unclaimed benefits to help cope with the disease.
Oct 15, 2012
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Public health needs a radical shake up if it is to enable good health to flourish, say experts in the British Medical Journal today.
Aug 21, 2012
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Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health with collaborators at the Federal University of Sao Paulo studied the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and patterns of substance use among high ...
Aug 2, 2016
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Women who live in a culture in which they are objectified by others may in turn begin to objectify themselves. This kind of self-objectification may reduce women's involvement in social activism, according to new research ...
Feb 14, 2013
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Black people and men of Pakinstani and Bangladeshi heritage are almost twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as White people, and mortality rates from the virus are three times higher for men in lower-paid, manual roles, according ...
Oct 2, 2020
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Income inequality has been linked to poor physical and mental health in past research, but more recent evidence suggests the issue of income inequality may be much more severe than previously expected.
May 29, 2023
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A new study, published in BMJ Open, links a rise in infant mortality in England to poverty.
Oct 3, 2019
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Health inequalities in young people have grown alongside socioeconomic disparities between the rich and poor.
Feb 3, 2015
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Many of today's public health issues – diabetes, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease – are strongly associated with social inequalities. Literature from across the world shows that gaps in income, employment, education ...
Jan 16, 2015
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