18 February 2010

HEALTH INEQUALITIES

Fair Society, Healthy Lives - The Marmot Review (11th February 2010)
According to this report most people in England aren't living as long as the best off and spend longer in ill-health. Fair Society, Healthy Lives proposes a new way to reduce health inequalities. The main recommendations are:
  • Giving every child the best start in life
  • Enabling all children, young people and adults to maximize their capabilities and have control over their lives
  • Creating fair employment and good work for all
  • Ensuring a healthy standard of living for all
  • Creating and developing sustainable places and communities
  • Strengthening the role and impact of ill-health prevention
Report

Sustainable Development: The key to tackling health inequalities (12th February 2010)
The Sustainable Development Commission's (SDC) contribution to 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives (2010) The Marmot Review' finds measures such as active travel, promoting green spaces and healthy eating will yield co-benefits for both health and carbon emissions and warns opportunities for healthy, low-carbon living should be distributed in ways that favour people with low incomes and so help to reduce their vulnerability to ill-health.
Report

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