Multimorbidity, which is increasingly common in an ageing population, complicates the prevention and management of disease but research and delivery of care focus on single disease entities.
In socially excluded groups, multimorbidity, including chronic physical and mental health conditions and disability, develops at a young age and is further compounded by poor access to healthcare and complex social problems.
Multimorbidity
Co-Lead Nishi Chaturvedi
The needs of older, ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status patients, all more likely to suffer from multiple conditions, have been consistently overlooked in the super-specialisation of research and clinical care.
Bringing expertise in multimorbidity, life course epidemiology, health data science, and genomics, we are applying a high-level strategy and scientific approach to inform healthcare provision and policy.
Our work will include:
- understanding which diseases co-occur, why and when
- identifying socioeconomic and biomedical drivers and consequences
- stratifying risk
- developing interventions
- maximising benefits and reduce harms from treatments.
Inclusion Health
Co-Lead Al Story
We have evidenced enormous unmet healthcare need for inclusion health populations (IHPs), including people experiencing homelessness, people who use drugs, prisoners, sex workers, and vulnerable migrants.
Our Lancet reviews show IHPs experience mortality rates up to ten-fold higher than the general population. Extremely poor health is compounded by inaccessible health care with factors including low GP registration, late diagnosis and frequent A&E use.
We have developed Inclusion Health as a service-academic partnership to redress the health inequalities experienced by socially excluded groups.
Our innovative, technology-enabled approaches, such as outreached digital radiography and video supported care have improved early diagnosis, access to care and engagement with IHPs across London, nationally and internationally.
Read more about our work
Case study – UCLH, London’s Inclusion Health Hospital, leads on tackling COVID-19 among the UK’s most vulnerable people
Case study – Improving global tuberculosis control through supporting treatment adherence with a smartphone app
