Mind the gap: tackling health inequalities

Mark Exworthy and David J. Hunter

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, 2024, pp 170-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Health inequalities have long been recognized by public health practitioners and research and yet, in many health systems, the issue often holds a precarious position on the agenda of politicians and policymakers. A significant volume of research evidence has been generated regarding the scale of the issue and its many manifestations - demographically, geographically and temporally. However, governments, not least those in the UK, have not always acknowledged or addressed the issue. This chapter seeks to explain this apparent paradox. It uses an in-depth case-study of English health policy since 2010 to describe the nature and scale of the issue, to examine recent and current policy as it pertains to health inequalities, and finally, to explain policy outcomes with reference to Kingdon’s (1984) ‘multiple streams’ framework (MSF).

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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