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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @11:23AM
From personal experience, they are Bangladeshi and Pakistani women living in Britain. Note they didn't mention Indians? I've known Indian women who're more English than the native English, in Scotland and Wales, again, the situation is different to an extent but the Pakistani & Bangladeshi 'communities' are more Pakistani & Bangladeshi than 'British' or 'Scottish' or 'Welsh', and that includes their children, in some cases, their grand-children....yes two generations born in the British Isles and they're more 'Pakistani or Bangladeshi' than British, not racism, just a statement of fact.
And it's funny you bring religion into it....I'll leave it up to you, dear readers, to figure out which religion is predominate in both the the Pakistani and Bangladeshi 'communities' (Though, in fairness, I have to add, the Bangladeshis aren't, on the whole, as dangerously fanatical about it as the Pakistanis..again, from personal experience over a couple of decades).
Besides, let's not be distracted from the truth, it doesn't matter what race or religion you are, if you're poor in the UK, despite the alleged safety nets of the welfare state, you're fucked, and 'They' want rid of us...and, I say that from current bitter personal experience.
Really?, is that like 'no one wants to live in the world of 1984?', if so, I hate to break it to you, but have you seen what the UK has become over the past couple of decades?
Let me tell you a story of the dying years/months/days of the Thatcher regime, a little outfit called the R@yne Institute down in London were evaluating software for the NHS which 'scored' patients for treatment, if said patient was aged, unemployed or in a low income job, then their starting score was very very low...no effective or expensive drugs, treatments or procedures for you then, little peon, swallow these cheap co-codamols, go away and quietly die (saving us having to pay you the state pension you contributed to and cover your geriatric care) And that wasn't the only 'endlösung' to the problem of how to rid themselves of the great unwashed they were evaluating.
Of course, then we had the 'Red Tory' Blair regime, the assumption by the great unwashed was that all these Thatcherite schemes were shelved..were they fuck, they were just more circumspect about their deployment (rather than the software sitting on GPs desktop computers as the Thatcherites planned, it sat on 'policy planners' machines, safely away from scrutiny), fast forward to the now, the Tories are fully back in control..expect more of that shit.
Logan's Run, eh? funny you mention that, for years I've said the Tories (both Red and Blue) are the parties of 'Renew! Renew!', very few (less than one handful) people got the reference...