Patient and public involvement (PPI) in UK National Health Service (NHS) research has
become an imperative in policy and practice. However, lack of clarity on what PPI is (or …

This paper is the second of two reviews that seek to stimulate debate on new and neglected
avenues in oral health research. The first commissioned narrative review,“Inclusion oral …

Background The concept of “intersectionality” is increasingly employed within public health
arenas, particularly in North America, and is often heralded as offering great potential to …

Persistent health inequalities pose a challenge to researchers and policymakers. Decades
of research have illuminated mechanisms that underlie health inequalities, now we must …

Research on health inequalities and health disparities has grown exponentially since the
1960s, but this expansion has not been matched by an associated sense of progress …

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's
digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS …

This article argues that, while it can be politically expedient for governments to engage with
health inequalities, they cannot, within the confines of neo-liberalism, realistically propose …

Globally, it is recognised that the fundamental causes of iniquitous health outcomes lie
within unequal distributions of wealth and power. Internationally, however, policies and …

The links between socioeconomic circumstances and health have been extensively studied
in Britain but surprisingly few studies consider lay perspectives. This is problematic given …

In 2019, local healthcare systems in England were asked to develop formal plans to reduce
health inequalities. Here, we explore plans to understand how local healthcare systems …