Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform
Informing and promoting sustainable solutions to reduce health inequity and improve health and well-being in Wales and beyond
What is The Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform?
The Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform is a live multi-sectoral portal to data, evidence and policies on health equity. It is here to stimulate solutions discussions on what works best to address health inequalities and achieve health equity in Wales.
Why is it needed?
To advocate the solutions and best practices to achieve health equity in Wales and beyond
New material will be added regularly including webinars, resources, blogs, policies and data.
Spotlight Features
The Five Essential Conditions
Policies that aim to ensure availability, accessibility, affordability and quality of preventative and health care services and interventions. For example, health protection, health promotion and improvement, primary, secondary and scheduled care.
Policies that aim to provide economic security and support to reduce the health and social consequences of poverty and low income throughout a person’s life. For example, financial support for parents, older people or unemployed.
Policies that aim to ensure opportunities for, and access and exposure to living conditions and environments that have a positive influence on people’s health and well-being. For example, planning, good quality and secure housing, clean air, green spaces.
Policies that aim to develop and strengthen social relations and community assets, including education, skills, community resources and meaningful social interactions to promote learning, and protect and promote health and well-being throughout a person’s life. For example, improving training, apprenticeship, building community cohesion and resilience, trust, sense of belonging
Policies that aim to improve the health impact of employment, working conditions and workplace equality. For example, availability of work, a living wage, physical and mental demands, ensuring health and safety at work.
What is Health Equity
Visit the World Health Organization website for more information on health equity
The absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically or by other means such as by sex, ethnicity or disability. Health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being.
