Session Information
People with low socio-economic status (SES) experience a higher prevalence of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) but poorer engagement with health prevention services. They also access healthcare through ambulance services disproportionately to those less disadvantaged.
Opportunities therefore exist to reduce CVD health inequalities and improve outcomes through interventions targeted at these individuals delivered in the ambulance setting.
Structural disadvantage prevents universal engagement in such interventions and research is required to understand how future initiatives should be delivered and the impact of these on reducing CVD (and wider) health inequality in marginalised populations.
Session Speakers
Karl Charlton
Research Paramedic
North East Ambulance Service