What is the impact of social and economic inequalities on the healthcare system? The 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of health, education and gender gaps as crucial to reducing disparities in access to essential human resources and services with a set of objectives towards achieving social equity and economic well-being. The World Health Organization (WHO) has drafted a handbook, published in 2017, to outline a framework of the imbalances in the world healthcare systems: factors such as education, socio-economic status, ethnicity and gender are the main drivers of health inequalities for about one billion people on the planet. What is the relevance for Europe?
Thursday 25 October 2018