Last updated: 25 July 2024
Next review: 25 July 2025
In 2022, the Institute of Health Equity was commissioned to work with the local authority and local partners. Its aim was to develop detailed research to understand the health inequalities experienced across Waltham Forest and their impacts.
Several socioeconomic factors determine people's health, such as:
- occupation
- education
- income
- wealth
- and where they live.
These account for avoidable and systematic health disparities. The report ‘A Fairer and Healthier Waltham Forest’ has vital insights into the health inequalities experienced by our communities. It includes recommendations to reduce these inequalities and improve health outcomes for all.
In 2024, the Council officially published its response to the Marmot recommendations, 'Building a Fairer and Healthier Waltham Forest'. Through Professor Sir Marmot’s ‘Eight Principles’ and through the Council’s accelerator areas (‘Good Work, Better Health’, ‘Healthier Homes’, and ‘Greener and Healthier Places’), our response sets out how we will inspire ambitious, far-reaching work programmes, with the health and wellbeing of our residents at the fore.
For more information on health inequalities in Waltham Forest, please follow the link below to the report and executive summary.