Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's (LSTM) Liverpool Health Equity Project is tackling long standing health inequalities.
Poverty and health are linked and the covid pandemic provided the ‘perfect storm' in Liverpool, exposing and exacerbating existing inequalities. Data showed people living in the most deprived wards in Liverpool had the lowest level of covid vaccination.
There was a 40% difference in vaccine take up between the most and least deprived wards in Liverpool. The project, now at phase two, will see the tactics used to improve vaccine take up employed to tackle wider long standing health issues and differences.
