20. Tackling health inequalities (Matter for Discussion) - Congress 2025 - Reading Lists

Tackling health inequalities (Matter for Discussion)

Submitted by CYP Acute Care Forum.

That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the role that nursing staff can undertake in tackling health inequalities.

More information can be found on the RCN Congress pages: https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Agenda

Please see below for some relevant resources you might like to look at ahead of the debate.

Day P (2023) Improving the health of ethnically diverse children and young people in minority groups, British Journal of Child Health, 4(6), pp. 292–294.
Heaslip V, Thompson R, Tauringana M, Holland S and Glendening N (2022) Health inequity in the UK: exploring health inequality and inequity, Practice Nursing, 33(2), pp. 72–76.
Heaslip V, Thompson R, Tauringana M, Holland S and Glendening N (2022) Addressing health inequity in the UK: people who are homeless, from ethnic minority groups or LGBTQ+ communities, Practice Nursing, 33(3), pp. 112–116
Lepkowska D (2023) Poverty could be behind rise in infant and child mortality rates, British Journal of Child Health, 4(6), pp. 268–269.
Waterall J, Newland R and Counsell A (2022) Health inequalities: how nurses and midwives can make a difference, British Journal of Nursing, 31(19), pp. 1004–1005.