Making connections to improve the health and wellbeing of Wales

Catch up with our latest webinar: Why is Equality Better for Everyone?

Comparing a range of social and health issues in rich countries including mental health, education, obesity, trust and community life, violence, and child well-being, societies that do well on one issue tend to do well on the others. Equally, societies that do badly on one issue do badly on all of them. What accounts for the difference? The key is the amount of inequality in each society. The more unequal a society is, the more ill health and social problems it has.

In this webinar Professor Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level and The Inner Level gave his perspective on why material inequalities make people more antisocial, make status and class divisions more powerful, increase stress, damage physical and mental health and are a barrier to sustainability.