Healthy places, prosperous lives

This report finds that there is a stark divide in health and wealth throughout the UK, leaving many'bad health blackspots' as health inequalities cluster in the same places. Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker the most quickly. The UK now has among the largest health inequalities of any advanced economy, with 1 in every 4 people in England and Wales who are economically inactive living in the unhealthiest 50 local authorities.ReportPress release
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news