health disparities

When Catharine Young talks about inequity, she isn’t referring to it in abstract terms. She grew up in South Africa at the end of apartheid, when systemic injustice was not just visible, it was part of daily life. That early…

England's HPV vaccination programme is helping to close inequalities in cervical cancer, cutting incidence rates across the socioeconomic spectrum. The study, published in the BMJ, found that the vaccination programme was associated with a substantially reduced incidence of cervical cancer…