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Welcome to the Health Equity Evidence Centre

A new hub with evidence-informed solutions for equitable health and care

Our approach to health equity

About us

We are a research collaboration, based mainly within universities, with a passion to eliminate health and care inequalities through high quality evidence and innovation. We believe that everyone should be able to enjoy good health and the highest standard of healthcare. Our work draws on the latest machine learning software and is made possible through funding from the NHS.

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Woman from the South Asian Community participate in chair exercises during a Health Advice day Keighley UK Yorkshire
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Navigating self-referrals to mental health services

In this blog, one of our Citizen Panel members reflects on their experience of using self-referral for seeking mental health care.

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Structural inequalities in primary care – the facts and figures

The factors determining the quality and quantity of primary care services vary across England. Here we analyse practice level data relating to the supply, demand, and need for primary care, according to the socioeconomic status of the patients served.

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Latest Resources

Improving health is a political choice but how do we make it a shared political goal?

It was striking to read the devastating results of the last fifteen years of austerity policies on the future of the NHS in the recent BMJ Commission, all within less than nine pages [1]. The numbers are telling; declining life expectancy, deteriorating physical and mental health of young children, and increasing infant and child deaths disproportionately […]

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What works to tackle ethnic inequalities through anti-racist interventions

BMJ Open has recently published an in-depth review examining anti-racist interventions to address ethnic inequalities in healthcare. In this blog, two of the review’s authors reflect on what this means for primary care.

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