SOCIAL CLASS

• What Is Social Class?
• Social Class & Discrimination
• Why Social Class Matters To Health
• Social Class & Other Equality Groups
• How We Are Addressing Social Class Issues
• Support & Resources
• People's Experiences

How are we addressing social class issues

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has a long history of involvement in income inequality, poverty and social issues as a way of reducing health inequality.

 We are carrying out a range of work to tackle inequality as a result of income inequality, poverty and social issues including-

• Monitoring the impact of the recession on health
• Increasing referrals to employability and financial inclusion advice
• The Healthier, Wealthier Children pilot which is exploring ways of tackling child poverty at local level (add link)
• Measuring the health gap so that we know that specific programmes of work are making the gap better or worse

Because the NHS cannot tackle these issues on its own it needs to work with other agencies like local authorities, voluntary organisations, the police, Job Centre Plus and others. For this reason the NHS is a partner in Community Planning and a whole range of other multi-agency partnerships.

Local health and social care partnerships mean that staff work together to give people support with health and social issues to reduce health inequality.