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- To reduce health inequalities, general practice needs to be: • connected so that interventions are linked and coordinated across the sector; • intersectional to account for the fact that people's experience is affected by many of their characteristics; • flexible to meet patients' different needs and preferences; • inclusive so that it does not exclude people because of who they are; • community-centred so that people who receive care engage with its design and delivery.
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The framework identifies key areas of action for the reduction of health and care inequalities in general practice across the structural, cultural, disciplinary, and interpersonal domains and suggests five principles that should inform relevant action.
This study explored how general practice services can increase or decrease inequalities in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, under what circumstances and for whom.
Objectives. Our main objective is to explore what types of interventions or aspects of routine care in general practice increase or decrease inequalities in outcomes of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or COPD, for whom, why, in what circumstances and how.
- John Alexander Ford, Anna Gkiouleka, Isla Kuhn, Sarah Sowden, Fiona Head, Rikke Siersbaek, Clare Bam...
- 2021
In our study, we found that lack of cultural understanding and implicit bias can increase health inequalities in general practice. Evidence as such highlights the need for more studies on the interconnection(s) between structural racism, healthcare worker and patient experiences of discrimination, and care outcomes in general practice.
- 2024/03
Focusing on common qualities of interventions, we found that to reduce health inequalities, general practice needs to be informed by five key principles: involving coordinated services across the system (ie, connected), accounting for differences within patient groups (ie, intersectional), making allowances for different patient needs and ...
Acknowledging these gaps, our study provides up-to-date, extended and integrated evidence on aspects of care and interventions in general practice that decrease inequalities in health and healthcare.
It is important to identify effective ways so that general practice can play its role in reducing health inequalities. OBJECTIVES: We explored what types of interventions and aspects of routine care in general practice decrease or increase inequalities in health and care-related outcomes.
