Health inequalities : A matter of life and death

Health inequalities: A matter of life and deathWhat causes health inequalities?Have government policies been making them worse or reducing them and how does this impact on peoples' health?Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health outcomes between different groups such as men and women, different ethnicities, people with different sexual orientations, or people living in different parts of England.These health outcomes may include risk of developing a disease, dying from an illness or disease such as cancer, or how old you are when you die (life expectancy). Why do health inequalities matter?England has some of the deepest and most ingrained spatial inequalities in Europe.