Addressing health inequalities is a key focus for health and social care organizations. This book explores how best frontline health workers in areas of deprivation can address these problems. Aimed at doctors and their wider multidisciplinary teams, this book provides key knowledge and practical advice on how to address the causes and consequences of health inequalities to achieve better outcomes for patients. Considering the psychological, financial and social aspects of well-being as well as health concerns, this book offers a concise but comprehensive overview of the key issues in health inequalities and, most importantly, how practically to address them.
Key Features
Comprehensively covers the breadth of subjects identified by RCGP's work to formulate a curriculum for health inequalities
The first book to address the urgent area of causes and consequences of health inequalities in clinical practice.
Chapters are authored by expert practitioners with proven experience in each aspect of health care.
Applied, practical focus, demonstrating approaches that will work and can be applied in 'every' situation of inequality.
Provides evidence of how community based primary care can make a change.
Contents
Foreword by Michael Marmot
Introduction
Part One: Setting the Scene
An Insight from the Frontline
An Introduction to Health Inequalities
A Multi-level Approach to Treating Social Risks to Health for Health Providers
A Tale of Two Cities - Hull and York.
Part Two: Knowledge and Skills
Our Patients and the Benefit System
Fuel Poverty and Cold-Related Ill Health
Child Safeguarding and Social Care
Domestic Violence and Abuse
Substance Use: Our Patients, Drugs and Alcohol
Addressing Smoking Cessation in Areas of Deprivation
Safer Prescribing: The Threat and Challenge of Caring for People with Chronic Pain
Persistent Physical Symptoms
Social Prescribing: Connecting People for Health and Wellbeing
Why do People not Engage with Healthcare?
Managing Difficult Conversations
Motivational Interviewing
Person-Centred Care
Trauma-Informed Care
Building Resilience Through Self-Care
Medical Advocacy: The Duty of Physicians as Advocates
Part Three: Populations and Groups
Child Health
Tackling Health Inequalities in Adolescence
Understanding and Responding to Complexity in Young People
Addressing the Health and Wellbeing of Young Carers
Women's Health and Health Inequality
Men's Health
Ageing Unequally
Improving health and healthcare experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities?
Engaging with the Health Issues of Gypsies and Travellers
The Health and Wellbeing of Asylum Seekers and New Refugees
Homeless Healthcare
Veterans' Health
Working with People in Contact with the Criminal Justice System and in Secure Environments
Mental Health and Primary Care Management of Complex Psychiatric Conditions
Part Four: Successful Models of Learning and Practice
A GP Curriculum for Health Equity
Examples of Innovative Service Models across the UK
Widening Participation in Medical Education
