Health inequalities & digital exclusion: supporting the Health Foundation's Covid-19 impact inquiry
This paper provides an overview of digital exclusion’s relationship to health, social and economic aspects of people’s lives, conducted one year after the first Covid-19 lockdown.
To support the Health Foundation’s COVID-19 impact inquiry, we joined up with the Health Foundation and the King’s Fund to convene a diverse group of people with a shared interest in tackling digital exclusion and health inequalities. Meeting almost a year after the start of the first national lockdown, there was no doubt about the importance of the issue or the challenges to overcome.
But the workshop was also an opportunity to make and strengthen connections, and share experience on promising approaches, opportunities and how to achieve sustained and inclusive change.
This paper gives an overview of digital exclusion and its relationship to health, social and economic aspects of people’s lives; who was affected; how the pandemic impacted on this; and the responses we saw.