Health inequalities are avoidable and unfair differences in health status and determinants between groups of people due to demographic, socioeconomic, geographical and other factors. Reducing Inequalities in Mental Illness focuses on some of the actions that local areas can take to reduce health inequalities experienced by people living with mental illness, so that they achieve the same health outcomes and life expectancy as the rest of the population. Addressing health inequalities – including in mental health – is a statutory duty for PHE |
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Health Inequalities Menu of Interventions and Approaches |
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Toolkit |
Wider Determinants of Health |
Place-based approaches to reduce inequalities |
Inequality Tools |
Advancing Mental Health Equality |