What's new? Explore the most recent analysis pages to be added to the evidence hub
17 February 2022
This page features the most recent analysis pages to be added to the What drives health inequalities? evidence hub.
If you have any feedback or questions about the evidence hub, please contact Adam Tinson, Senior Analyst, at adam.tinson@health.org.uk
Work
Analysis
Relationship between low-quality jobs and health
Those with low job security or low job satisfaction are twice as likely to report less than good...
Analysis
How employment status affects our health
Unemployed people are more than five times as likely to have poor health than employees.
Analysis
Relationship between number of negative job aspects and health
The proportion of employees who report ‘less than good’ (fair or poor) health increases as people...
Analysis
Proportion of people in low-quality work by region, ethnicity, age, and sex
Low-quality work is most prevalent in Wales, Northern Ireland, the North East and the urban West...
Analysis
Trends in the number of negative job aspects that people experience
Just over two in five employees (44.1%) experienced at least one negative aspect of job quality in...
Analysis
Duration of low-quality work
Nearly a quarter (22.8%) of employees in a low-quality job in 2012/13 were still working in a...
Analysis
Trends in low job quality
Half of all employees report low job autonomy as the most prevalent measure of negative job quality,...
Analysis
Trends in unemployment and underemployment
After reaching record lows in 2019, the share of adults who are unemployed or underemployed...
Analysis
Trends in unemployment and long-term unemployment
Unemployment rose from 2019 to 2020 following the pandemic restrictions and remained at the...
Money and resources
Analysis
Relationship between self-rated health and problem debt
Being in problem debt is associated with worse self-rated health.
Analysis
Persistence of debt problems by health
People in poor health are more likely to be in persistent debt.
Analysis
Savings and income by health
Half of all working age people with poor health have no savings whatsoever.
Long read
Debt and health
About 17 mins to read
Government action in 2020/21 eased financial pressures for many. But with those on low incomes and...
Health inequalities
Analysis
Map of healthy life expectancy at birth
Healthy life expectancy at birth varies across the UK. There is a gap in healthy life expectancy at...
Analysis
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth by deprivation
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth are lowest for people living in more deprived...
Analysis
Inequalities in age-standardised mortality rates
Since 2011, improvements in mortality rates for men and women have stalled – both on average, and in...
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