Health inequalities in Scotland and how the Deep End Project aims to balance them
Tea and Talk with the RSE
English - July 29, 2021 11:44 - 48 minutes - 91.4 MBEducation Science national academy scotland health policy covid-19 stem stem education stem program Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Scotland compares very poorly with other countries in Europe and even within the UK when it comes to health inequalities, but why? In S03E02 of the RSE’s Tea and Talk Podcast, RSE Chief Executive Rebekah Widdowfield talks to Professor Graham Watt CBE FRSE about the reasons and possible answers.
Graham is Emeritus Professor in General Practice at the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on health inequalities and for over a decade has been involved in the Deep End Project, which looks at work in general practices serving the hundred most deprived populations in Scotland.