HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN HONG KONG: A LIFE COURSE APPROACH

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HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN HONG KONG: A LIFE COURSE APPROACH

7 Nov 2022

The second report from the UCL and CUHK Institutes of Health Equity, it builds on the first, which examined inequalities in health and the social determinants of health and assessed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and on the social determinants (1). [...] At the same policy objectives outlined in the first Marmot review, time, interventions at every stage of life must continue Fair Society, Healthy Lives (2) and in the follow-up in order to protect and improve the health and wellbeing report, Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review of current and future generations, including the oldest. [...] care and healthcare, professional bodies, businesses, charities and voluntary organisations, in developing We also explained that the COVID-19 outbreak policies across the board to reduce inequalities in exposed and exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities social and economic conditions and thereby reduce in Hong Kong, widening inequalities related to the inequalities in health (1). [...] This underscores the importance of good maternal care, Infant mortality is a crude measure of the quality of alongside efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of antenatal and maternal care, as well as the health of the the adult population to provide children with the best mother, related to their social and economic position. [...] In the first report of this series, we explained that working In that report we also highlighted that child poverty has poverty is an issue in Hong Kong, where close to one in worsened in Hong Kong since 2018 and this is related to four of those living in poverty are in full-time employment the significant increase in the number of working poor (1).
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