Covid-19: Failure to control pandemic and inequalities made England worst affected in Europe, says report
Autor: | Shaun Griffin |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Government
Economic growth biology Inequality State of health media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) General Medicine Marmot 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology biology.organism_classification Health equity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Political science Pandemic Life expectancy 030212 general & internal medicine media_common |
Zdroj: | BMJ |
ISSN: | 1756-1833 |
DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.m4842 |
Popis: | A failure to control the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with widening inequality over the past decade, has led to England having the highest rate of excess deaths from covid-19 in Europe, a new report concluded.1 Rather than focusing on narrow economic goals, health and wellbeing should be at the heart of government strategy, it says. The findings and recommendations from the report by Michael Marmot, director of University College London’s Institute of Health Equity, add to those made in a 10 year update, published in February,2 of the landmark 2010 Marmot review of strategies for reducing health inequality. The update showed that England was entering the pandemic in a poor state of health, with life expectancies in its most deprived areas declining and a slower improvement in overall life expectancy than in almost any other rich nation. At a press conference to launch his … |
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