Towards a neighbourhood health service: A new partnership between community and the state

This paper from Local Trust looks at health disparities at the neighbourhood level, offering policy recommendations the government can take to improve health outcomes and shift towards prevention and a neighbourhood focused health service.

In 2010, the Marmot Review found that people living in the poorest neighbourhoods die on average seven years earlier than those in the wealthiest, and the link between social conditions and health is widely recognised at a national level. This paper's authors find that until now there has been a very poor understanding of health disparities at the neighbourhood level (residential areas of around 10,000 people or fewer).

The authors find there has also been too little study of what can be done to help and this paper aims to fill that gap and makes five key policy recommendations the government can take to improve health outcomes.