Alan Taman

• Health
• Public relations
• Inequality
• Health policy
• NHS

• MA, University of Coventry

• Public Relations and Health, Birmingham City University
• Public relations and journalism, University of Coventry
• Public relations and journalism, University of Wolverhampton
• Forensic science and IT, Sutton Coldfield FE College

'Unwell, unjust and what can we do about it?': perceptions of solutions to health inequality

The project aims to determine and explore what people over a wide social range perceive on solutions to health inequality, how they attribute causes, and ways of engaging them so that more equitable health policies can be arrived at and then applied. This is ambitious but health inequality is growing in the UK after over 30 years of successive attempts at health policy to challenge it - it needs to be. At the least, the project will find out more about what people think might be a solution that works for them, and could work more widely. It is important to approach a wide range of people, across the social spectrum, to gain useful information for this - which is why studying in a city the size of Birmingham is an advantage. This is happening against a backdrop of increasing blame, stigma and notions of deservedness over health, which will only serve to make health inequality both worsen and become more acceptable. The ethical imperative to do this work could not be clearer.

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