{
  "abstract": "Health inequalities are often discussed as a challenge for primary care, public health and social policy. Yet few specialties encounter their consequences as directly as emergency medicine. Every day, emergency departments provide care to patients whose health outcomes have been shaped by poverty, deprivation, discrimination, violence, language barriers and unequal access to healthcare long before they arrive at our doors. In this issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal, several papers highlight how inequalities influence who becomes ill, who accesses emergency care, what care they receive and, ultimately, whether they survive. Emergency care services are uniquely positioned at the intersection of health inequalities and therefore have an important role to play in addressing them.1 It is becoming clearer that health inequalities are not the result of a single factor. Rather, they arise through the interaction of bias, structural inequity and the cumulative effects of social disadvantage.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Sarah Edwards"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Department, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Kirsty Challen"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Focusing on health inequalities in emergency care",
  "uid": "d2811df2-b371-5505-bef9-288160817d5e"
}