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Health for All

April 14, 2026 |  

Stories matter. They bind people together, create a sense of connection, and engage our thoughts, emotions, and imagination all at once. They show us other people’s perspectives and let us imagine what it is to live other people’s lives.

- PMLiVE

The more we researched the facts and data around equity, diversity, and inclusivity in healthcare, the more impossible it became to separate them from the stories they represented. In healthcare, a lack of equity, diversity, and inclusivity exposes real vulnerability.

As human beings, we are all either consciously or unconsciously biased. Our bias is shaped by our own experiences and perspectives, and affects how we interpret the world around us.

Working in healthcare doesn’t prevent this – everyone has implicit bias, no matter how well-intentioned they are or how much they try to avoid it. A systematic review of 42 studies of implicit bias among healthcare professionals found doctors and nurses manifest biases to the same extent as the general public – in response to characteristics as varied as race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, mental illness, weight, disability, drug use, and social circumstances.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set ‘leave no one behind’ as its guiding principle for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and more and more companies are making equity, diversity, and inclusivity a priority.

Interweaving systems and intersectionality

There are multiple systems and structures in play globally, such as power, economics, politics, and legislation – shaping policies, culture, education, access, available funding, and technology, which can lead to biases on an individual level. This results in a lack of equity, diversity, and inclusivity within healthcare, and ultimately poorer outcomes for patients.

Many of the categorisations that shape society and lead to marginalisation or oppression are complex and interconnected and need to be considered together – this is why taking an intersectional approach is so important. For example, there is a close relationship between inequality and poverty. While economic growth is an essential factor for poverty reduction, inequality can significantly limit this process. Inequality impairs the quality of relations in the public and political spheres of life and impairs the sense of realisation and self–esteem of people.

Read the stories, and download the white paper at https://nooneleftbehind.co.uk/about-us

This content was provided by Havas Lynx

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