Health Inequality
- Created by: ggmonkey
- Created on: 31-03-21 18:51
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- Health Inequality
- Governed by factors which cannot be changed - age, gender, ethnicity
- Inequalites are ameanable to change
- Child IQ is dependant on socioeconomic status
- Even if it is high when born, it is more likely to decline if child is poor
- Proportionate universalism
- Delivering universalism with an intensity related to the level of social need
- Assessing government policy responces to social inequalities in health
- In 1970's, aim was to convince population that their own behaviour was responsible for their inequalities
- Black Report - supressed by government
- Indicated income, housing and woring were responsible for inequalities
- Marmot Report
- People living in the poorest neighbourhoods will on average die seven years earlier than people living in the richest neighbourhoods
- Health inequalities are largely preventable. Not only is there a strong social justice case for addressing health inequalities, there is also a pressing economic case
- Slight improvements seen under labour government but vast worsening in conservative government
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