Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Michael Marmot
Introduction
James Matheson
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
- 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
- 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
- A GP Curriculum for Health Equity
- Examples of Innovative Service Models across the UK
- Widening Participation in Medical Education
Laura Neilson
Ann Marie Connolly
Gary Bloch, Ritika Goel
Ben Jackson, Mark Purvis
Part Two: Knowledge and Skills
Lisa Chattington
Jamie-Leigh Ruse
Paul Bywater
Catherine Cutt, Clare Ronalds
James Matheson
Camran Miah
Clarissa Hemmingsen, James Matheson
Julia Hose, Susan Harris
Tim Anfliogoff
Austin O’Caroll
Helen Barclay
Dot Mundt-Leach
Deena El-Shirbiny
Ruth Thompson
Ming Rawat, Cathy Cullen
Jessie Lee
Part Three: Populations and Groups
Jess Keeble
Marian Davies
Phil Harris
Hannah Thompson
Rachel Steen
Peter Barker
Louise Tomkow
Enam-ul Haque, Bushera Choudry, Riya George
Elizabeth Keat, Milena Marszalek, Helen Jones, James Matheson
Rebecca Farrington, Anna Bailey
Gemma Ashwell
Mike Brookes
Caroline Watson
Jenny Drife
Part Four: Successful Models of Learning and Practice
Dom Patterson, Tom Ratcliffe
Milena Marszalek, Gabi Woolf
Charlotte Auty
