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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 owing to a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid, according to “shocking” new research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.

Using Office for National Statistics figures, the report’s author Prof Peter Goldblatt looked at the life expectancy of people across England who do not live in the wealthiest 10% of areas.

He urged political leaders to do more to tackle the fact that poorer people are at much higher risk of getting and dying from illnesses, which are closely linked to poverty, poor housing and unemployment.

Previous research has shown that policies introduced by the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010, which focused on early years and education, were beginning to reduce glaring health inequalities.

“Fourteen years of Conservative wreckage of Labour’s legacy has left our country with an NHS on its knees, an increasingly unhealthy society, with appalling consequences for people.

“Important as is the NHS – publicly funded and free at the point of use – action is needed on the social determinants of health: the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.


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