Health inequality
Health & Care: Finance, Workforce and Reform
Author / Creator: Jimmy Reid Foundation
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2024
As a recent study shows, privatisation is not the solution and leads to poorer outcomes. Funding is critical coupled with action on:
• Investment in digital health and care.
• A realistic workforce plan.
• Investment in social care.
• A focus on prevention and early public health interventions.
How stark are Scotland’s health inequalities?
Author / Creator: The Ferret
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
After consistently increasing over the last four decades overall life expectancy stalled in Scotland in 2013-15
Health Inequalities in Scotland: Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland
Author / Creator: David Eiser
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Socioeconomic factors play a critical role in influencing health and health inequalities.