What is inclusion health and why is it important for all nurses and midwives?

Abstract

Inclusion health is a catch-all term used to describe people who are socially excluded and those who typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health, including poverty, violence and complex trauma. Examples are people who experience homelessness, drug and alcohol dependence, vulnerable migrants, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, sex workers, people in contact with the justice system and victims of modern slavery (Public Health England. People in these population groups are also more likely to experience poor health because health care is not made as easily accessible to them, despite the fact that they are more likely to have several concurrent health conditions that put them at greater risk of dying young...