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London, United Kingdom - A decade of "austerity" - a political programme of slashing public spending on services in a bid to reduce government budget deficits - has seen significant effects on the health and wellbeing of Britons, new research has reported.
Life expectancy has stalled and mortality rates have increased, especially for the poorest in the United Kingdom, according to a report commissioned by the Institute of Health Equity.
The report, Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review Ten Years On, was launched on Tuesday and sees Sir Michael Marmot, a former president of the World Medical Association, updating his influential 2010 report, having been asked by the then-Labour government to study the question: "Is inequality making us sick?"
Marmot's latest research analysed a wealth of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England to explore what has happened since his last landmark report. And the answer can only be summarised as: Not only is inequality making us sick but it is killing us quicker.
In the past decade - for the first time in 120 years of increasing life expectancy in England - life expectancy has stalled for those people living in the UK's 10 percent most deprived areas, particularly in the northeast.
Among women from the most deprived areas - especially British women of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin - life expectancy fell between 2010-2012 and again between 2016-2018.
Mortality rates have meanwhile increased for people aged between 45 and 49 - the generation that grew up under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's administrations. The report details how life expectancy follows the social gradient - the more deprived the area, the shorter the life expectancy.
Marmot's data analysis finds that, as the social gradient has become steeper, so inequalities in life expectancy have also increased.
Austerity has adversely affected the social determinants that impact on health in the short, medium and long term. Austerity will cast a long shadow over the lives of the children born and growing up under its effects
:- Professor Sir Michael Marmot
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday February 27 2020, @03:12PM (6 children)
Surely adding a bunch of tariffs and annoyances when trading with the EU until Boris Johnson gets the deal he wants is going to fix everything. And BoJo also wants to make further cuts to the NHS too, to really help things out. Or, if all those efforts fail, maybe he can cut a deal with the USA, famous worldwide for their super-cheap prescription drugs and medical devices.
Who is dumber, the fool who demands everyone else walk off a cliff, or the fools who gladly do it?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:04PM (4 children)
Well Thex, this decline happened during the UK's time as a MEMBER of the EU. Clearly EU membership hasn't been that great of a benefit.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:41PM (3 children)
And by that logic, the EU is also responsible for the UK's involvement in the Iraq War, and the Grenfell Fire.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @06:57PM (2 children)
You've got nothing, Thex.
EU membership is not something that makes everything better, and leaving the EU isn't going to result in the death of Britain.
So much fearmongering and doom and gloom from the Left-- just like they did at the start of President Trump's term. The country is doing fine. Britain will do fine. Guys like you will probably continue hyperventilating regardless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @10:02PM (1 child)
I notice you refer to "Britain" and not "The United Kingdom".
I wonder if that was accidental or intentional?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @11:18PM
Probably accidental as the AC appears to be American, and we think of you guys as "Britain".
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:20PM
Who is dumber, the fool who demands everyone else walk off a cliff, or the fools who gladly do it?
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