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London’s health inequalities have been stark for decades.

It is a city of great wealth and great poverty. Despite our best efforts, little progress has been made in narrowing the gap in health outcomes between different groups of Londoners.

The Mayor of London. Health Inequalities Strategy Implementation Plan 2021

Support & Opportunity.

We believe every person should have the opportunity to lead a long healthy life with equal access to the care and support they need. This unfortunately is not the reality for millions of people living within the UK.  

One of our missions is to help reduce health inequality within our local communities. We aim to do this by assisting our members to improve their well-being through opportunity to access specialist support and care services and by encouraging pro-active, healthy lifestyles. 

Whilst we are in the process of building our 1-1 support service

Information & Advice

Check out a range of specialist services in Camden.

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Support &
Opportunity
.

Improve your sporting parent style & empower your young athlete.

Volunteer.

We have a range of flexible opportunities.

Do Good To Feel Good

Our Vision.

We aim to empower parents from diverse backgrounds by ensuring equal access to educational resources, professional guidance, opportunity and community support

Our aim is to create opportunities that enable every parent to realise their potential, pursue their aspirations, and play an active role in shaping their children's future.

Support For

Families.

Assistance with a range of practical issues such as housing, employment, debt, benefits and support to engage with specialist healthcare services 

Career & Educational

Opportunities .

We envision providing a service which will support parents to advance in education, help to secure paid work and get into sporting careers

Information & Resource Hub.

We want to become a resource for our community so we're working on a Support Service Database that provide info on all things health & wellbeing

Register
Your 
Interest
.

Starting a Wellbeing Service requires time & resources. A great way to show our funders that there's a need is by Registering Your Interest. 

Please complete the short form below, we'll then present your responses to the council & various funders to help us secure resources. 

Area of concern:

Thank You for registering your interest! We'll keep you updated.

Inequality
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Health Inequality.

Health inequalities are defined as the avoidable, unjust differences found in the health status of groups of people within a population.

The cause of health inequality within a population is complex.

There are a range of individual, social, economic and environmental factors that play a huge role in defining our health experience.

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These factors are known as the Social Determinates of Health

They are often interrelate and most usually beyond an individuals control   

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The relationships between the determinates influence our health and give rise to health inequality.

For example. It's well documented that

Income, Lifestyle Choices & Access to Care

People with lower incomes and lower social status's participate in higher-risk individual lifestyle choices like smoking & drinking (increases the risk of long term health issues), have worse access to care and support and less opportunity to lead healthy lives in comparison to those who earn more money and live in affluent areas. 

Gender, Income & Life Expectancy 

In England, in 2019 women living in environments with lower social status & income were 3.5 times more likely to die from an avoidable cause than those in affluent environments. Men in the most deprived areas were 3.6 times more likely to die from an avoidable cause than those in the least deprived areas.

 Culture & Longterm Health

It's also been shown that people from ethnic minority groups are more likely than white British people to report long-term illness and poor health, with those identifying as white Gypsy and Irish Traveller reporting the poorest health.

Health Inequality in London.

The variation of health & wellbeing across London borough's is wide.

In 2020-2021 it was reported that those living in the Barking & Dagenham are more likely to die 7 years earlier than those living in Camden. However, Camden & Islington have been said to have some of the widest health inequalities within London. In 2019, it was reported that these boroughs had some of the highest rates of severe mental illness within the country. There's also approx. 12,000 Camden residents living with undiagnosed diabetes and the rate of domestic violence is increasing.

 

One of the factors that give rise to health inequality is the lack of access to health & community services. That's why we want to ensure all of our members are aware of the range of support and healthcare services in the area. If you like information on these services then please check out our Information & Advice Page. 

Check out our Resources below for more information on health inequality stats within the UK.

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Useful Resources.

The Mayor of London's Health Inequalities Strategy Implementation Plan 2021-24

Report setting out priority actions that the Mayor has committed to taking forward to implement the London Health Inequalities Strategy over the next two years.

The King's Fund

The King's Fund is an independent charitable organisation working to improve health and care in England. Check out their research on health inequality

Annual Public Health Report 2019-20: Going further on Health Inequalities within Camden and Islington

In depth reporting looking into the health inequalities within Camden. The report focuses on thre areas: Domestic Violence, Diabetes and Severe Mental Illness

Camden Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2021-30

Camden's community approach to tackling health inequality

Health inequalities & disproportionate impact of COVID on BAME communities

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