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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @11:41PM
Ahh, "Muh racism". Was it "Muh racism" when I squared off against a group of white lads hurling racist abuse at a Chinese woman on Friday night? Just wondering if that elicits the "Muh racism" argument like everything else does these days?
Nothing in my comments here has been racist, the article inadvertently makes the case that Bangladeshi and Pakistani women are overrepresented in social welfare dependence (Bangladeshi men are also often dependent on something [researchgate.net]). Do you know where Bangladeshi and Pakistani men are really overrepresented? [quillette.com]
Ahh yes, "all-inclusive". Is that why a muslim womans word is worth is half that of a man? Is your usage of "all-inclusive" here a codeword for wife-beating or racially motivated child rape? Or is it not in the public interest [independent.co.uk] to discuss how such things were aided and abetted [wikipedia.org] by the police and political establishment? The majority of the vulnerable girls who were raped were in the care of social services, costing the British taxpayer multiples of the best boarding school education money can buy. [thetimes.co.uk]
This is what I'm paying 18% corporation tax and 40% income tax for is it pal? For British people to wait 6 months for life saving surgery or mental health treatment while flying incubators full of African women touch down daily for free NHS child birth? And if I object to any of it or treat dickheads like this [twitter.com] to an NHS supper (once again at my own expense) I'll be called a "racist"? That's very funny - fuck you! As to the public servants responsible for this criminal shit show, either they lose their pensions or the day of the rope approaches.