The Classics
- Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On
The report highlights that:people can expect to spend more of their lives in poor healthimprovements to life expectancy have stalled, and declined for women in the most deprived 10% of areasthe health gap has grown between wealthy and deprived areas place matters – living in a deprived area of the North East is worse for your health than living in a similarly deprived area in London, to the extent that life expectancy is nearly five years less
Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On - The Health Foundation
- The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone a book by Wilkinson and Pickett
The book highlights the "pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption". It shows that for each of eleven different health and social problems: physical health, mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, trust and community life, violence, teenage pregnancies, and child well-being, outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal rich countries
The Spirit Level | The Equality Trust
- The Black Report. Inequalities in health: report of a research working group
Published in August 1980. The group found that there were differences in mortality rates across the social groups, with those in lower social groups suffering higher rates of mortality. The report also found inequalities in access to health services, particularly preventative services, with low rates of uptake by the working classes.
'Black report' on health inequalities | Policy Navigator - The Health Gap by Sir Michael Marmot
A readable and thought provoking book. An entry-level introduction to health inequalities and why they matter to everyone.
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael G. Marmot | Goodreads
“
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman"
Martin Luther King Jr.
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