CVD in Black and minority ethnic groups caused 24 per cent of all deaths in England and Wales, in 2019. Reference
By 2025 more than 5 million people will have diabetes in the UK. Reference
Estimates of disability-free life expectancy are 10 years lower for Bangladeshi men living in England compared to their White British counterparts. Reference
Our approach and engagement
We will take a systemic approach to stakeholder engagement, ensuring that systemic primacy, diversity of experience, independence, transparency, and reliance on evidence are always at the centre of the work we do. Our community engagement work will focus on four key objectives designed to ensure that systematic community participation:
- shapes the Observatory’s and NHS’ priorities for targeted ethnic health inequality work
- is embedded in the analysis of the factors that lead to ethnic health inequalities and in the solutions that will reduce those inequalities
- supports the NHS to implement recommendations, and to achieve its own health inequity reduction ambitions
- is at the heart of evaluating the impact of the participation itself and in the work of the Observatory and the NHS within key priority areas
Ethnic health inequalities are persistent globally, and there are likely to be significant cross-cultural commonalities that show promise of reducing health inequalities for Black and minority ethnic people in white-majority societies, or in societies where ethnic populations may be in the majority but where health outcomes for those ethnic, non-dominant populations are far below the average of their societies. The Observatory brings together race, ethnicity and health expertise from across the globe, from Australasia to Africa, South and North America to Europe and Asia – to share common solutions to common challenges in the field of ethnic health inequalities.