HealthEquityDigest
The new Health Impact Assessment (Wales) Regulations: A framework for advancing health equity in Wales
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an approach that brings together a combination of procedures, methods and tools to evaluate how a proposed decision, initiative, policy, programme, or project may affect the health of a population.
Using behavioural science to tackle health inequalities
This spotlight feature blog explores the critical challenge of designing health interventions. It introduces key behavioural science concepts and showcases how the BSU is supporting the application of them, along with reference to a suite of resources to support more equitable public health action.
Tackling child poverty: A Scottish policy model
This feature analyses Scotland’s approach to tackling child poverty through policy, investment, and adopting a public health lens, offering lessons for other countries.
Equity in action: Advancing LGBTQIA+ health in Wales
Health inequalities among the LGBTQIA+ communities in Wales present a pressing challenge. Despite advancements in societal acceptance and legal rights, LGBTQIA+ individuals continue to face significant disparities in mental health, sexual health, and healthcare access. These issues are not isolated to Wales but reflect broader UK and international trends.
Improving education, skills and employment in Coventry: A Marmot city approach
This feature seeks to distil the learning and approach adopted by Coventry as a Marmot City, in particular highlighting its approach to improving education, skills and employment.
Tackling the Inverse Care Law: Reducing health inequalities in Wales through General Practice and place-based partnerships
This feature looks at examples of the Inverse Care Law in Wales, alongside strategies and initiatives across Wales which aim to reduce inequalities through General Practice and place-based partnerships.
Working towards health equity – frameworks and tools to help develop a strategic approach
Working towards health equity is a challenging but crucial task. Public Health Wales is seeking to support you in this work, whatever your role, by compiling a range of national and international tools that have been developed to guide this work in different contexts.
Social and economic determinants of gender equity: Strategies for a prosperous future for women in Wales
In the pursuit of health and well-being for the people of Wales, various foundational elements must be firmly in place. These elements, often referred to as the building blocks of health, encompass essentials such as secure housing, meaningful employment, financial stability, safe childhoods, and robust community connections.
Social value masterclass: Measuring the value of public health
An online masterclass on the concept and application of social value to enhance understanding and assessment of the broader holistic value of public health.
Improving health equity by giving every child the best start in life
Children have the highest risk of poverty out of all age groups in Wales: nearly one in three or 28% of children are living in relative income poverty, and children in larger, lone-parent or workless families are at particularly high risk.
Building a fairer Gwent: Wales’ first Marmot region
There are many factors within society, the economy and the environment that influence peoples’ health and wellbeing. Inequalities within these factors, the social determinants of health, such as the unequal distribution of wealth and resources drive the conditions in which people live and create unfair and unjust differences within societies.
The Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform launch
The Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform is a digital platform that was launched on 22nd June, 2023. The webinar on the Launch gave an overview of future planned activities and provided an opportunity for you to find out how you can become involved in co-producing solutions, developing case studies and contribute to learning on solutions based action to reduce health inequities in Wales.
Understanding the health gap: Using Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis as a health equity solutions tool
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis is a statistical method of analysis aiming to quantify the health gap in Wales, as well as to provide a better understanding of its main drivers across the five essential conditions for healthy prosperous lives for all.
The cost-of-living crisis: Implications for public health and the identification of solutions report
The report summarises learning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) All-Regions for Health Network (RHN) webinar facilitated by the WHO Collaborating Centre at Public Health Wales on the 21st of September 2022.