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Ekklesia | New Marmot report lays bare unacceptable health divide
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And the North-East is one of the areas found to be hit the hardest. Professor Sir Michael Marmot urged ministers to do “whatever it takes” to put improving health and wellbeing at the “heart” of all Government policy, as he published a report highlighting the scale of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on people in England. The report, Build Back Fairer: The Covid-19 Marmot Review, found that the Covid-19 outbreak had damaged everyone’s prospects of improved long-term health, particularly children who are at risk of shorter lives post-pandemic. Prof Marmot said the impact of the virus and the Government’s response to the crisis was “entirely predictable” based on analyses of the previous decade of worsening health inequalities as a result of austerity.
After months of lockdown restrictions, some married couples are sick of the sight of each other.
But the Hugheses won’t be getting sick from Covid – after they both received the Pfizer vaccine yesterday.
Maureen, 84, and Gerry, 81, are believed to be the first people to receive the vaccine in a GP surgery.
It might sting: Maureen, 84, and Gerry, 81, Hughes at their surgery in Halesowen in the West Midlands for the Covid-19 jabs yesterday
The next steps of the inoculation programme could see priority given to those in jobs which put them at greater risk of exposure – such as taxi drivers and security guards – following a report by a public health expert.
15 December 2020 The more deprived the area, the higher the mortality rate – for all causes of death. We have to rebuild a fairer society, argues Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Health).
In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. The official number of casualties as a result of the storm is 64. But take into account the longer-term consequences – devastated infrastructure, overwhelmed hospitals – and the death toll rises to the thousands. When we look closely at these figures, we see something else too: two months afterwards, mortality had risen sharply for the lowest socioeconomic group, somewhat for the middle group, and least for the highest group. A huge external shock had thrust the underlying inequalities in society into sharp relief.
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