Health inequalities ‘caused a million early deaths in England in last decade’
Flowers for the dead: this was for victims of the DWP-led cull of sick and disabled people – just a fraction of the million who died between 2011 and 2019.
The National Health Service – and the government – are supposed to ensure that everybody gets the same level of health care, everywhere in the UK, right?
Explain this:
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” research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.
The figures are revealed in a study by the Institute of Health Equity at University College London led by Sir Michael Marmot. They demonstrate the extent to which stark economic and social inequalities are leading to poorer people dying early from cancer, heart problems and other diseases.
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.
The report, titled Health Inequalities, Lives Cut Short, found that between 2011 and 2019, 1,062,334 people died earlier than they would have done if they lived in areas where the richest 10% of the population reside. A further 151,615 premature deaths were recorded in 2020, although this number was higher than expected because of the coronavirus pandemic.
This next part is particularly disturbing:
Of these deaths, Goldblatt directly attributed 148,000 to austerity measures implemented by the coalition government from 2010 by comparing them with levels seen earlier.
In other words, the Coalition Conservative/Liberal Democrat government of 2010-15 is directly responsible for the deaths of 148,000 people.
When are the arrests going to happen? When will the prosecutions and imprisonments take place?
Yeah, that’s right – they won’t.
And the reason they won’t is that the current UK government is the most corrupt in the history of the nation.
Source: Health inequalities ‘caused 1m early deaths in England in last decade’ | Inequality | The Guardian
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I’m still shell shocked my wife my partner who fought every day to stay alive but sadly she had made that six section of their list which is just another Liverpool pathways to death that six part list were after you reach they put you down not nice but sadly she travelled that path I’m still coming to terms with it
Well done fascist tories for disposing of over 1 million women and men in just one decade because their ‘monetary value’ was of no use to the boys in political power!
Only the wealthy have right to expert medical care whereas impoverished women, children and men can only look forward (sic) to an early death and all due to austerity and fascist tory claims ‘wah government doesn’t have the money to accord real health care to certain groups of women, children and men!’