Our Health for Wealth report showed that improving mental health in the North would generate over £6 billion per year for the UK. By increasing investment in mental health support and community prevention programmes in the North of England, mental ill-health and economic inactivity can be tackled.
“Years of economic decline, austerity, cuts to public services, and widening inequalities have left many communities more vulnerable to poor mental health, substance misuse, and preventable early deaths”
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11-17th May is Mental Health Awareness Week, with this year’s theme ‘Action: awareness is vital, real change comes when we take action too’. Throughout Health Equity North’s work, we have called for meaningful and sustained action to improve the mental health of the North.
Taking action to improve mental health goes beyond being a health imperative; improving population mental health should be recognised as a strategic lever for tackling economic inactivity and driving economic growth.
Read more in the report: www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/...
Congratulations to our Academic Co-Director @profkepickett.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk) who has become the UK’s first-ever Professor for the Public Understanding of Social Science and has been chosen as an expert on a Consultative Council to a UN-endorsed International Panel of Inequality (IPI) 🎉
@lpoolcouncil.bsky.social’s report ’The Health of Women in Liverpool’ spotlights the health burden faced by women in Liverpool and calls for much-needed change.
Women in the North deserve better, and reports like this show how a wide perspective is needed to tackle health inequalities.
“This cannot be treated simply as a labour market issue – it is also a health equity issue”
Academic Co-Director @lukemunford.bsky.social comments on the new Young people and work report, which shows that nearly 1 million young people in the UK are NEET.
www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/hen-academic...
In a new article from Quays News, @hannahdavies.bsky.social comments on findings that the North West still records the highest number of alcohol-specific deaths in England.
Read it here: www.quays.news/north-west-s...
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This new report draws on some of the work and themes of our Woman of the North research, which showed that women in the North face fewer healthy years, work more for less, and are more likely to live in poverty.
Read our report here: www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/...
