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GP

Worsening GP shortages in disadvantaged areas likely to widen health inequalities

18 Aug 2021

Areas of high socioeconomic disadvantage are being worst hit by shortages of GPs, a trend that is only worsening with time and is likely to widen pre...

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Inequality in medieval Cambridge was ‘recorded on the bones’ of its residents

26 Jan 2021

Life in medieval Cambridge was toughest for the ordinary workers, according to a study of the “skeletal trauma” found on remains from three different...

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Beyond the pandemic: focus on productivity to make everyone better off

16 Nov 2020

There is no way out of the immediate economic hit of a pandemic, says Professor Diane Coyle, but to heal social fractures, we must focus on giving...

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Beyond the pandemic: tackle the digital divide

13 Aug 2020

Increased working, learning and interacting online during the pandemic has widened the gap for those who lack digital skills or access, writes Gemma...

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Abingdon street in central Blackpool, the English town with the highest rate of hospital admissions for self-harm.

People in England’s poorest towns ‘lose over a decade of good health’, research finds

17 Jun 2020

Cambridge researchers find major health inequalities – as well as a geographic divide – between the most and least deprived English towns. They say...

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Students in class in Burkina Faso

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

27 May 2020

Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern...

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Opinion: Coronavirus has intensified the UK’s digital divide

06 May 2020

The coronavirus lockdown risks turning the problem of digital exclusion into a catastrophe of lost education and opportunity for the UK’s poorest and...

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Living on the edge

29 Mar 2019

Some of the most deprived areas in England are located in the eastern region. The New Horizons project has been helping those furthest away from the...

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Opinion: Why policymakers should care about location

08 Mar 2019

What account should policymaking take of the notion of 'place' – the landscapes, cities and towns we inhabit, with all the opportunities and...

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Estate sunset

Austerity cuts ‘twice as deep’ in England as rest of Britain

09 Oct 2018

Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing...

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Women working in the rice paddy fields in Odisha, one of the the poorest regions of India

Tracking inequality in India: the story of a pioneer

04 Jul 2017

India’s booming business centres and gleaming shopping malls mask a grimmer reality. While one section of the population gets richer, another section...

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