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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 Phoenix666 on Thursday February 27 2020, @10:21PM (4 children)
No, I'd say marmot is making us sick. Have you ever spread that stuff on bread? It smells like ass.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @11:24PM
That's your problem: you overcooked the marmot until it was pure mush. You want it just tender, medium-well.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Friday February 28 2020, @12:33AM (2 children)
One would expect marmot to be part of a rural Chinese cuisine, but the German Wiki article on "Murmeltiere" (Marmota) explains that it's actually an Austrian specialty. Quite the opposite of sick-making, it is also used in natural medicine.
You probably meant "Marmite", which is a very delicious yeast-paste to spread on toast, or spice other dishes with. Australians know a similar stuff named "Vegemite", which has a dual use down under to repel dangerous drop bears. In Germany, one can obtain "Vitam-R", which is even smoother than Marmite. Also, Natto with its fine and nutty flavour is very good for your intestinal tract and with its visual appearance saves you the effort to watch tentacle hentai during breakfast.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday February 28 2020, @04:39AM
Well that deteriorated fast, despite the fact it was rotten to begin with. Any more racist puns on ethnic foods?
And the Brits, whatever else cannot be said for their cuisine, at least do not have marshmallow/jello "salad" or "Baked Dish", the nauseating Midwestern American sources of declining life span.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 28 2020, @06:33AM
Tomato, tomahto. Marmot says inequality is killing Britons, and I say no, Marmot, it's your repellent marmot sandwich spread. Vegemite does not kill Australians because, duh, it contains more vegetables & no marmot and Aussies are rendered invincible anyway because they drink Foster's (which is Australian for 'beer'). For the record, Germans, Swiss, and Austrians would never eat marmot because they prefer to chat them up at the kneipe at the height of karnival after the seventh and final round of singing "Da steht ein Pferd auf'm Flur."
"Natto" is based on a Japanese acronym that roughly means, "I didn't have a tissue so I blew the mucus out one nostril at a time onto my bowl of noodles." Everyone knows that.
Washington DC delenda est.