Health Inequalities Hub
Healthcare inequalities are unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and within different groups in society; the NHS Long Term plan has the reduction of health inequalities at its core. The RCGP health inequalities hub contains three eLearning courses, as well as other resources.
The first course provides an introduction to health inequalities, introducing terms such as the wider determinants of health, the inverse care law and the intersectionality between multiple factors. The second course is on inclusion health groups, including those experiencing homelessness, victims of modern slavery and vulnerable migrants. The third course discusses the principle of allyship and bystander intervention, how to avoid unintentional microaggressions and how a practice might deal with a patient expressing racist views.
The rest of the hub contains an interview and webinar with Professor Sir Michael Marmot, a podcast about the use of social prescribing link workers to reduce health inequalities and a section about increasing vaccine uptake to reduce health inequalities. Finally there are links to other resources, including on ‘missingness’, when patients do not attend appointments and may be harmed by this, and addressing the increase in health inequalities that has been seen since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Course: Health Inequalities Hub | RCGP Learning
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