FEATURE21 June 2021
Sir Michael Marmot on the need to ‘build back fairer’
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FEATURE21 June 2021
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In the latest of our In Seven series, we speak to Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology at University College London (UCL), director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and past president of the World Medical Association. He has led research groups on health inequalities for more than 40 years.
Commonly, I am asked what one thing I would recommend to reduce health inequalities. A key reason for my refusing to answer that question is precisely because of the interconnections. Income is a housing question. Housing is a food question. Food insecurity is part of poverty.
We do need specific policies, but we need to look at them in the context of the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
The pandemic has shown how reliant we are on good-quality data and, in the UK at least, how blessed we are to have such high-quality data systems.
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