2. Health Inequality

Despite progress in many areas such as reductions in maternal and child mortality rates, less than half of the world population have access to essential health services. Health outcomes are still greatly determined by social and economic conditions. Addressing health disparities is essential to global wellbeing and ensuring the right to health.

Our research improves global health by exploring health inequalities in LMICs. It provides insights into social and economic drivers behind health outcomes contributing to policies and programmes that target disadvantaged populations. This cluster also includes research on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South.

Geographical focus

Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, sub-Saharan Africa

UN Sustainable Development Goals

City sView over houses and apartment tower blocks in Delhi, India, with yellowish hazy air due to smog and pollution. Image credit: abhisheklegit | iStockphoto https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/delhi-air-pollution-gm1126605395-296668246cape with polution

From emergency to resilience: Building healthy and resilient cities through learning

Insight The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities background document offers recommendations and practical examples to help cities promote learning for health.

Aerial view of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil with a poorer district called Favela da Rocinha at the forefront and a district with skyscrapers behind, with hilly wooded areas in between. Image credit: dabldy | iStockphoto https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/slum-rocinha-and-aerial-rio-de-janeiro-gm477193287-35532452

The Brazilian Deprivation Index (BDI)

Insight The Brazilian Deprivation Index (IBP) is the first small area deprivation measure covering the whole of Brazil.

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The 'good life' and mental health among refugee communities

This journal article explores the meaning of a 'good life' among refugee communites and the implications for their mental health.

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 Priority Challenge 2 Projects

The 100 Million (100M) Cohort in Brazil

Project Title: The 100 Million (100M) Cohort in Brazil

Geographic focus: Brazil

The project brings together social security data with health outcomes focusing on infectious diseases. It will enable the identification of the social determinants of health and improve the understanding of how to reduce inequalities in LMICs.

Project Lead: Prof Alastair Leyland

Project Website: cidacs

Brazilian Deprivation Index (BrazDep)

Project Title: Brazilian Deprivation Index (BrazDep)

Geographic focus: Brazil

The index is a small area deprivation measure for the whole country. It measures relative deprivation creating a scale from the least to the most deprived. The index is a useful tool to identify health inequalities and support policy and programme targeting.

Project Lead: Prof Alastair Leyland

Project website: NIHR