A failure to tackle health inequalities made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic risks “condemning” the next generation of children to “less flourishing” lives than their parents, a health expert has warned.
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.
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