Emily Lynn-Graham
@dremilylynn.bsky.social
Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice, working on post policy ✨
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Here is a link to our main report, where we explore the relationship between health and work in more detail
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
Economic activity and health inequalities: how labour market experiences sustain health inequalities
Report by Ed Pemberton and Emily Lynn on how labour market experiences sustain health inequalities
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Here is a link to our main report, where we explore the relationship between health and work in more detail
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
📊 Read the report:
It’s part of a wider Citizens Advice research, funded by @healthfoundation.bsky.social, exploring work and health inequalities.
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
It’s part of a wider Citizens Advice research, funded by @healthfoundation.bsky.social, exploring work and health inequalities.
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
Health and work: a local perspective - insights from Chapeltown and specialist employment advice
Short report by Emily Lynn on work and health inequalities in Chapeltown, Leeds
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📊 Read the report:
It’s part of a wider Citizens Advice research, funded by @healthfoundation.bsky.social, exploring work and health inequalities.
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
It’s part of a wider Citizens Advice research, funded by @healthfoundation.bsky.social, exploring work and health inequalities.
👉 www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...
Fair, secure work supports good health - but for too many, it's out of reach.
Our research in Chapeltown shows how poor job conditions and structural inequality compound to worsen health. Local advice services are key to breaking the cycle.
#HealthInequality #WorkAndHealth #Chapeltown #Leeds
Our research in Chapeltown shows how poor job conditions and structural inequality compound to worsen health. Local advice services are key to breaking the cycle.
#HealthInequality #WorkAndHealth #Chapeltown #Leeds
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fair, secure work supports good health - but for too many, it's out of reach.
Our research in Chapeltown shows how poor job conditions and structural inequality compound to worsen health. Local advice services are key to breaking the cycle.
#HealthInequality #WorkAndHealth #Chapeltown #Leeds
Our research in Chapeltown shows how poor job conditions and structural inequality compound to worsen health. Local advice services are key to breaking the cycle.
#HealthInequality #WorkAndHealth #Chapeltown #Leeds
However, the report highlights how frontline specialist employment advice services in communities like Chapeltown are key to understanding - and breaking - the link between poor work and poor health.
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
However, the report highlights how frontline specialist employment advice services in communities like Chapeltown are key to understanding - and breaking - the link between poor work and poor health.
Our insights from Chapeltown Citizens Advice’s specialist employment adviser shows us how inequality compounds:
📍 Place-based experiences of multiple deprivation
🏥 Higher illness rates
🚫 Fewer good job options
🔁 A cycle that’s hard to break
📍 Place-based experiences of multiple deprivation
🏥 Higher illness rates
🚫 Fewer good job options
🔁 A cycle that’s hard to break
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our insights from Chapeltown Citizens Advice’s specialist employment adviser shows us how inequality compounds:
📍 Place-based experiences of multiple deprivation
🏥 Higher illness rates
🚫 Fewer good job options
🔁 A cycle that’s hard to break
📍 Place-based experiences of multiple deprivation
🏥 Higher illness rates
🚫 Fewer good job options
🔁 A cycle that’s hard to break
Poor work isn’t just a job problem. It’s a health issue.
When insecure, inflexible work is all that’s available, it drives chronic stress, worsens mental health, and makes long-term conditions harder to manage.
When insecure, inflexible work is all that’s available, it drives chronic stress, worsens mental health, and makes long-term conditions harder to manage.
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Poor work isn’t just a job problem. It’s a health issue.
When insecure, inflexible work is all that’s available, it drives chronic stress, worsens mental health, and makes long-term conditions harder to manage.
When insecure, inflexible work is all that’s available, it drives chronic stress, worsens mental health, and makes long-term conditions harder to manage.
Most clients?
➡️ In low-paid, insecure work
➡️ Often on zero-hours or agency contracts
➡️ Facing poor working conditions
➡️ More likely to be disabled, in poor health, or from racially minoritised communities
➡️ In low-paid, insecure work
➡️ Often on zero-hours or agency contracts
➡️ Facing poor working conditions
➡️ More likely to be disabled, in poor health, or from racially minoritised communities
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Most clients?
➡️ In low-paid, insecure work
➡️ Often on zero-hours or agency contracts
➡️ Facing poor working conditions
➡️ More likely to be disabled, in poor health, or from racially minoritised communities
➡️ In low-paid, insecure work
➡️ Often on zero-hours or agency contracts
➡️ Facing poor working conditions
➡️ More likely to be disabled, in poor health, or from racially minoritised communities
Our local Citizens Advice office in Chapeltown sees this inequality every day.
They run a specialist employment service helping people deal with unlawful wage deductions, bullying, lack of reasonable adjustments and more.
All issues which can negatively affect health outcomes.
They run a specialist employment service helping people deal with unlawful wage deductions, bullying, lack of reasonable adjustments and more.
All issues which can negatively affect health outcomes.
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our local Citizens Advice office in Chapeltown sees this inequality every day.
They run a specialist employment service helping people deal with unlawful wage deductions, bullying, lack of reasonable adjustments and more.
All issues which can negatively affect health outcomes.
They run a specialist employment service helping people deal with unlawful wage deductions, bullying, lack of reasonable adjustments and more.
All issues which can negatively affect health outcomes.
Chapeltown is an area to the North East of central Leeds that reflects the wider inequalities of the city.
A city where women in the poorest communities live 9 years less than those in the wealthiest. For men, the gap is 10 years.
That’s the human cost of inequality.
A city where women in the poorest communities live 9 years less than those in the wealthiest. For men, the gap is 10 years.
That’s the human cost of inequality.
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Chapeltown is an area to the North East of central Leeds that reflects the wider inequalities of the city.
A city where women in the poorest communities live 9 years less than those in the wealthiest. For men, the gap is 10 years.
That’s the human cost of inequality.
A city where women in the poorest communities live 9 years less than those in the wealthiest. For men, the gap is 10 years.
That’s the human cost of inequality.
Health inequalities can be shaped by who you are, where you live, what you do for work and how much you earn as you do it.
And in places that experience multiple forms of deprivation like Chapeltown, these factors often stack up against you.
And in places that experience multiple forms of deprivation like Chapeltown, these factors often stack up against you.
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Health inequalities can be shaped by who you are, where you live, what you do for work and how much you earn as you do it.
And in places that experience multiple forms of deprivation like Chapeltown, these factors often stack up against you.
And in places that experience multiple forms of deprivation like Chapeltown, these factors often stack up against you.