Mind the Gap!
Earlier this week a new report released by Changing Lives outlined shocking disparities in health outcomes by region, and resulting preventable deaths.
This particular piece of work focussed on inequality faced by vulnerable women living in the North East, and is just the latest to highlight how people living in deprivation are least likely to be able access adequate healthcare provision.
- A woman in the north-east of England is 1.7 times more likely to die early as a result of suicide, addiction or domestic murder than women living in England and Wales as a whole.
- 81% of women living in the north-east of England and needing help with their mental health could not access support in 2021
So, how can churches stand in the widening gap between those who can access adequate healthcare provision and those who can’t?
We’ll be focussing on this and more at #CTCC23, but in the meantime today are releasing a one-page healthcare inequality introduction (available to download at the bottom of this post), with a booklet made available to delegates at our Churches that Change Communities conference in November.
Over the coming months we're looking forward to hearing from churches at home and abroad who are stepping in to fill healthcare gaps, including one church which now runs a dental clinic from its building!
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We're excited to have Debra Greene OBE sharing with our online delegates at Churches that Change Communities. To get an early insight into the work Redeeming Our Communities is doing around mental health support in deprived areas, click here.
