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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the imagine-that dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 28 2020, @06:12AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 28 2020, @06:12AM (#963989) Journal

    My own case? I've been pretty low maintenance for all of my life, thank you very much for your concern. I take no meds, and my various conditions (color blindness, sore knees, allergy to work) cost nothing. And, I certainly don't plan on being warehoused in a hospital or nursing home for thirty years, where I WOULD BE a drain on society.

    I've always felt that people who require constant medical attention might be better off dead. I feel very strongly about it, in my own case.

    Fear not, youngster. You won't be paying to keep Old Man Runaway's heart beating for another day, another year, another decade.

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