{"id":2563,"date":"2025-03-25T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/health-inequities-and-their-causes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:35:46","slug":"health-inequities-and-their-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/health-inequities-and-their-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Health inequities and their causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>There is ample evidence that social factors, including education, employment status, income level, gender and ethnicity have a marked influence on how healthy a person is. In all countries \u2013 whether low-, middle- or high-income \u2013 there are wide disparities in the health status of different social groups. The lower an individual\u2019s socio-economic position, the higher their risk of poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Health inequities are systematic differences in the health status of different population groups. These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies.<\/p>\n<p>This fact file looks at what health inequities are, provides examples and shows their cost to society.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/facts-in-pictures\/detail\/health-inequities-and-their-causes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is ample evidence that social factors, including education, employment status, income level, gender and ethnicity have a marked influence on how healthy a person is. In all countries \u2013 whether low-, middle- or high-income \u2013 there are wide disparities in the health status of different social groups. The lower an individual\u2019s socio-economic position, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","th-blog blog-single has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskaanhospital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}