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Mind the gap: tackling health inequalities

In: Research Handbook on Health Care Policy

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  • Mark Exworthy
  • David J. Hunter

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Health inequalities have long been recognized by public health practitioners and research and yet, in many health systems, the issue often holds a precarious position on the agenda of politicians and policymakers. A significant volume of research evidence has been generated regarding the scale of the issue and its many manifestations - demographically, geographically and temporally. However, governments, not least those in the UK, have not always acknowledged or addressed the issue. This chapter seeks to explain this apparent paradox. It uses an in-depth case-study of English health policy since 2010 to describe the nature and scale of the issue, to examine recent and current policy as it pertains to health inequalities, and finally, to explain policy outcomes with reference to Kingdon’s (1984) ‘multiple streams’ framework (MSF).

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  • Mark Exworthy & David J. Hunter, 2024. "Mind the gap: tackling health inequalities," Chapters, in: Martin Powell & Tuba I. Agartan & Daniel Béland (ed.), Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, chapter 11, pages 170-190, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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