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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: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:18PM
> especially British women of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin
which, by the only act of crossing the border, magically acquire the right to the average age of British ladies huh? What BS is this.
This summary clearly indicate that the average age can't be compared with the past, because it's about a different genetic mix of people having sustained different conditions.
Plus, the average age depends not only on income, but on living conditions, kind of diseases, external factors. The youth nowadays look shitty, sleep deprived, less tall than gen X, at least around here, and I am talking about locals, not the immigrants (who btw seem better looking, which itself scores a point for welfare, even if it's not sustainable once the old gen of tax paying natives runs out of money)
Now, I am sure austerity is a bad idea, and the enrichment of the already rich is another bad idea. But I don't subscribe to the equation: the rich are getting richer because we don't tax them enough and the poor are getting worse because that money doesn't flow to them. The rich that crave money are mere kapos. Should they deviate from the plan (to which the word 'progress' refers BTW) they would be dead meat in one second.
The states do not need tax money to pay for services, at least, not here. My country prints money (the wrong way, by submitting to the EU central bank) to pay for services. Then taxes people, recoup for the money spent for the services (a little) the kickbacks (a little more) and the interest on the money printed (here be dragons, touch this and get JFKed).
The progressive left barks against the rich, but that didn't help much in the past. In fact, here in Italy, unions helped killing the upper middle class and magically left the really evil ones (FIAT) live and prosper. I dunno about your countries, but I don't think the same stats they are using about what percentage of people own what riches represent a good track record for their action. If the 68 is of any indication, quite a lot of people shouting equality are just adopting the best ideology suited for the social ladder climbing. So, let's bring on the propaganda studies and let's ignore how the system works.
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