BUSINESS
Health inequalities special
HEALTH INEQUALITIES Despite 70 years of the NHS, healthy lifespans, risk of disease and even life expectancy depends on where you live, who your parents were, your education and your bank balance. Understanding health inequalities can help you to reach out to a more socio-economically diverse customer base…
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O back twenty, maybe even ten years, and holistic therapy was very much perceived as a nice lifestyle add on service for women who were mature, relatively well off and had relatively little in the way of serious
health problems. The Worried Well, they called them. Now, with growing evidence that modalities such as
yoga, mindfulness and nutrition are fundamental to our health and mental wellbeing, it’s time for other holistic therapies to establish themselves as accepted mainstream solutions to some of the UK’s lifestyle diseases, improving the health of the nation and helping the most disadvantaged in terms of both mental and physical health to level up.
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