Main 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.

Contents:

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