1️⃣ Health & income inequality are closely linked, with the bottom 20% in terms of income almost 3 times as likely to have a disability as the top 20%.
📄 Latest report - Economic and social inequalities in Europe in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: http://ow.ly/vxVy50MAWFQ
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eurofound/status/1618640143371345923
2️⃣ During the pandemic, inequality in access to health services increased. In 2020, the risk of having an unmet medical need for people in the lowest income quintile was 5.4 times higher than those in the top 20%.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eurofound/status/1618640426881384449
3️⃣ This highlights how policies focusing on reducing income inequalities can also reduce health inequalities.
📊 Read the report here: http://ow.ly/vxVy50MAWFQ
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eurofound/status/1618640836484562946
