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      • Modern life is leaving women twice as likely to be stressed as men as they juggle work, family and children
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      • Are we seeing a new ‘inequality paradigm’ in social science?
      • ’30,000 excess deaths linked to NHS and social care cuts’
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      • Boys and Men's Health: An urgent need to make the investment -
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      • Dentistry.co.uk - Is it too easy to blame parents for children’s poor oral health?
      • Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness: are Beveridge’s five evils back?
      • Feminists fight to keep gender questions in census
      • Parliamentary citation
      • Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
      • Life expectancy in Britain has stagnated, meaning that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?
      • Investing in Young People's Mental Health Needs Today for Tomorrow
      • Health inequality costs
      • A century of improving life expectancies in the UK is now officially over Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/century-improving-life-expectancies-uk-now-officially/
      • The consequences of workplace surveillance
      • Life expectancy falls by a year in several regions of England
      • Rod Liddle on how longer lives have been lost under a mountain of fat
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      • Devolution Inaction - The House Magazine
      • GP inspections: are sanctions holding back improvement in poor areas?
      • 42% of Households in Northern Ireland Affected by Fuel Poverty
      • Rich outlive poor by more than 8 years
      • Why neoliberal institutions are pushing ‘Accountable Care
      • Inclusion health: a new perspective on health inequalities?
      • Raw Power: Britain’s changing appetite for veg
      • Reversing the social curse - blog post
      • Coventry under the spotlight for Norwegian Health delegation
      • Going broke midlife tied to increased risk of premature death
      • As rich children slim down, poor ones are getting fatter - The Economist
      • Millennials are on track to have worse health in middle age than their parents
      • Winter death toll hits highest level for FIVE YEARS after the country was buffeted by the 'Beast from the East'
      • Yes, let’s celebrate the NHS at 70. But it isn’t the only service keeping us healthy
      • LIFESPAN GROWTH SLOWING Brits’ life expectancy slowing due to austerity and unhealthy lifestyles
      • Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70 review – infectious wit and political fury
      • Today’s children set to live shorter lives than parents - The Times
      • The Guardian view on life expectancy stalling: a political choice
      • Higher taxes on the rich could reduce UK health inequality, says expert
      • Two in five people with learning disabilities not diagnosed in childhood
      • Why do not we live longer?
      • Smoking ban tops ranking as RSPH unveils greatest 20 public health achievements of the 21st century
      • Austerity blamed for life expectancy stalling for first time in century
      • Gains in UK life expectancy stall after decade of austerity, report says
      • Poorest women's life expectancy declines, finds report
      • Life expectancy of poorest women in England falls as experts warn of growing health inequalities
      • Taking urgent action on health inequities
      • Overview of Media Coverage: Marmot Review 10 Years On
      • Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge
      • Coronavirus latest: Britain's lack of preparedness for tackling Covid-19 crisis linked to austerity, health expert says
      • Poverty kills people: after coronavirus we can no longer ignore it
      • London bus driver deaths to be examined in coronavirus study
      • Earlier lockdown could have saved lives of London bus drivers, says report
      • Why did England have Europe's worst Covid figures? The answer starts with austerity
      • RCP joins with nearly 80 organisations to call for action on health inequalities
      • Life expectancy a up to decade longer in Coventry's richest communities
      • New Zealand must match its 'in this together' Covid rhetoric with action on basic services
      • Analysis: Coronavirus - what researchers know about the risk of reopening schools
      • Coronavirus: London bus driver deaths to be reviewed
      • Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health
      • The Guardian view on the public realm: rebuild the people's palaces - Editorial
      • Offline: It's time to ask questions and learn lessons - The Lancet
      • Hackney health chief opens up about mental health impact of pandemic
      • Budget 2021: austerity by stealth will repeat the mistakes of 2010s all over again - The Conversation
      • United action needed to build back fairer, not just better
      • UK public health expert criticises No 10 race report ‘shortcomings’ - Guardian
      • News coverage citing Michael Marmot response to govt commissioned race report
      • L and G partner with Sir Michael Marmot on health inequality
      • Legal & General establishes partnership with Sir Michael Marmot to address UK health inequality
      • New multi-million charity fund to tackle health inequality
      • Legal & General establishes partnership with Sir Michael Marmot to address UK health inequality
      • Legal & General partners with Sir Michael Marmot to address UK health inequality
      • New partnership established to address UK health inequality
      • Legal & General establishes partnership with Sir Michael Marmot to address UK health inequality2
      • Minority communities have struggled to get fair health treatment for too long. The vaccine programme shows the way
      • Focus should be on health, says L&G
      • Covid death rate 25% higher in Greater Manchester - report
      • Jaw-dropping’ fall in life expectancy in poor areas of England, report finds
      • ‘Jaw-dropping’ falls in life expectancy as Greater Manchester sees a quarter more Covid deaths than the English average
      • Local authorities will not wait for Government action on inequality – Marmot
      • COVID mortality rate 25% higher in Greater Manchester, report finds
      • Covid Mortality Rate 25% higher in Manchester than national average, report finds
      • Government must tackle stark regional health inequalities exposed by pandemic, says Marmot
      • Levelling up health in the UK
      • New regional health economics network for North Wales
      • Why real estate must help to narrow health inequalities
      • A radical plan to treat Covid’s mental health fallout
      • What are the social determinants of good mental and physical health?
      • ‘£20 cut would repeat past mistakes’ universal credit campaigners tell PM
      • Ten years of bad policy have destroyed Britain’s health, yet we’re still arguing among ourselves
      • Health inequality is a choice – and so is fixing it
      • Guardian article: uk-womens-health-review-set-to-launch-in-spring
      • https://inews.co.uk/news/health/levelling-up-white-paper-billions-needed-tackle-health-inequalities-1438199
      • https://inews.co.uk/news/health/levelling-up-white-paper-billions-needed-tackle-health-inequalities-1438199
      • https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/life-expectancy-target-fails-to-grasp-scale-of-problem-bv9zf7276
      • Basic income: Wales pilot offers £1,600 a month to care leavers
      • Some people in Wales will get almost £20,000 a year as part of a basic income trial
      • Michael Gove defends funding of ‘rehashed’ levelling-up promises
      • UCL Summer School: Social Determinants of Health: 4-8 July 2022
      • Business should play a more active role in improving health, say researchers
      • NEW REPORT FROM THE INSTITUTE WITH LEGAL AND GENERAL
      • Food plan unlikely to beat obesity crisis, leading UK inequalities expert warns
      • Should ESG explicitly focus on health?
      • MarmotLancetJuly2022
      • Upcoming Cold Homes Report Webinar
      • A generation of Britons face long-term illness from being cold and poor this winter
      • Fuel poverty 'will cause thousands of lives lost and children's development blighted'
      • Real household disposable incomes to fall by 10% this year and next
      • Millions facing ‘significant humanitarian crisis’ due to rising cost of living, leading experts warn
      • Most teachers giving pupils food and clothes as cost of living crisis hits households
      • The energy crisis puts a health time-bomb under Britain’s most vulnerable
      • How IHE helped Manchester become Council of the Year
      • Sir Michael Marmot: We must not return to austerity
      • New Podcast: Did austerity work?
      • Cold comfort: the science of staying warm in the energy crisis
      • Feeding Britain: Obesity is not always a personal choice – until we recognise that, nothing will change
      • Honoured health expert says UK failing to meet basic needs of food and shelter
      • All In It Together Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19
      • Understand local population and overcome bias to tackle health inequalities, says RPS
      • Keir Starmer may win power but he won’t be able to turn the UK around on the cheap
      • Mark my words: this will be the end of the NHS if the Tories have their way
      • NHS waiting times: a government pledge
      • Cost-of-living crisis will harm Londoners’ health and requires urgent action
      • Cottage Centre’s Big Hoose project gives 430,000 goods to families in poverty
      • Gordon Brown warns of Tories ‘testing the water’ for two-tier healthcare
      • Here's what can be done to try to fix Wales' health crisis
      • Our Economic Masters Failed on Their Own Terms
      • Anger as UK drops health disparities plans
      • The future of work
      • Cradle to grave: can the NHS be fixed?
      • Social tenants say poor housing is bad for their health
      • Charity collaborates with ICSs to boost childhood health
      • Reinventing public purpose
      • Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected?
      • How poor housing costs the NHS £1.4bn a year
      • It’s groundhog day for preventative care
      • Labour’s Wes Streeting is half right about how to fix the NHS
      • Expert accuses politicians of choosing not to reduce child poverty
      • Landmark report charts route for reorienting economies to deliver health for all
      • An economics of health for all
      • Poverty proofing and a national strategy for the cost-of-living crisis
      • Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics
      • Public health review of noncommunicable disease prevention and its determinants: Belgium
      • David Cameron is heckled as he leaves the Covid Inquiry
      • Covid inquiry – live: David Cameron says it was a ‘mistake’ not to look at other types of diseases
      • David Cameron refusing to say austerity had no impact on pandemic ‘flies in face of scientific opinion’, says health expert
      • So, George Osborne, austerity was essential? Tell that to the children still suffering its terrible effects
      • Key takeaways as Whitty and Vallance give evidence to Covid inquiry
      • ‘Cameron and Osborne’s Claims that Austerity had No Impact on COVID Preparedness is Jaw-Dropping’
      • Covid-19 inquiry: Experts clash with political leaders over effects of austerity
      • Tories, hear this: the public still believes in the NHS
      • Experts clash with political leaders over effects of austerity
      • UK’s health equity slows down
      • Councils approach to tackling health inequalities receives recognition
      • Climate change could leave children worse off than parents
      • The two-child benefit cap shames our country – it’s time to end it
      • Reducing inequality in Knowsley could save NHS £400k a year
      • Call for new pandemic minister likely as Covid inquiry considers impact of Brexit and austerity
      • The fight against unfair cuts must continue
      • The Policy Ask with Michael Marmot
      • Who lives and who dies in the world’s next pandemic should not depend on where they live
      • Development of a conceptual framework to guide description and evaluation of social interventions for people with serious mental health conditions
      • What we can do to protect people from dementia
      • Britain’s hunger and malnutrition crisis could be easily solved – yet politicians choose not to
      • Health is the key to our wealth
      • Health Inequalities, Lives Cut Short
      • Covid-19 has cut UK life expectancy by around half a year, data suggest
      • An Open Letter to Party Leaders
      • BMJ Opinion: We know what to do to improve health
      • Andrew Marr
      • The Marmot NHS Trust approach could help NHS organisations tackle health inequalities
      • Brits Suffering 'Grim' Victorian Diseases Due To Poverty, Says Public Health Expert
      • Michael Marmot on health and the UK election
      • companion of Honour
      • Action on Social Determinants of Heath Equity Multi-Country Initiative
      • Almost 10m UK households living in ‘cold, damp, poorly insulated homes’
      • UK energy bills to fall – but millions still live in dangerously cold and damp homes
      • Report lays bare ‘dire state’ of Britain’s homes
      • Operational Framework for Monitoring Social Determinants of Health Equity
      • Our country has become poor and unhealthy
      • Health deteriorating for people living in Leeds' poorest communities
      • Marmot Places: the areas taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities
      • What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
      • Leading MPs condemned as more constituents suffer ‘avoidable ill-health’
      • Poorer people dying increasingly younger than richer people as 'dismal' life expectancy gap grows, report finds
      • Gwent in the Financial Times
      • Students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils
      • £1m funding boost for North East communities to tackle health inequality
      • Panorama Britains Child Health Crisis
      • Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London, report shows
      • Racism is exacerbating London’s health inequalities, report concludes
      • Structural racism and the social determinants of health
      • How should the government tackle health inequalities
      • Citizens Advice Northumberland sees record number seek help for cost of living, energy and debt issues
      • Institute of Health Equity and Oxfordshire new partnership aims to deliver a fairer and healthier county
      • New collaboration to tackle Scottish health inequalities
      • Media coverage of the new Institute of Health Equity report on The Property Sectors Role on Improving Health
      • BMJ Coverage of our New Building Health Equity Report
      • Interview with Legal & General about The Building Health Equity Report
      • New project in Wales launched to tackle health inequalities guided by the Marmot Principles
      • Lancet article discussing the Institute of Health Equity's Norway inequalities report
      • Calls to act on child poverty as leaders gather for South Yorkshire summit
      • 04/03/25 Media Coverage of the launch of Newcastle as a Marmot City
      • Media Coverage of the launch of Kings Lynn & West Norfolk as a Marmot Place
      • Guardian Article on the Consequences of Cuts to Benefits
      • Sir Michael Marmot Opinion Piece for the WHO
      • Director of Public Health, Newcastle and Gateshead Citing Prof Marmot on Covid 19 Pandemic and Preparedness
      • Article discussing the link between the housing and health crises
      • Article discussing the impact of tariffs on health and inequalities
      • Sir Michael Marmot visits Liverpool to officially award Marmot City status
      • https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r886
      • Protectionism Will Not Protect Against Pandemics
      • Video of a speech by Sir Michael Marmot for 'The Man with the Plan'
    • Articles by the Institute Team
      • Working for health equity
      • Paying for the positive impact
      • Socioeconomic disadvantage and onset of disabling chronic condition in childhood
      • The Role of Social Determinants in Tackling Health Objectives in a Context of Economic Crisis
      • Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health
      • How will the Financial Crisis Affect Health?
      • The Right to Sutures Social Epidemiology Human Rights and Social Justice
      • Social Science and Medicine Reviews and Response
      • Improving Health: Social Determinants and Personal Choice
      • Using conditionality as a solution to the problem of low uptake of essential services among disadvantaged communities: a social determinants view
      • Shocking Annual Death Toll from Cold Homes is Preventable
      • Global Action on Social Determinants of Health
      • Social Determinants of Health in Europe
      • Building of the Global Movement for Health Equity: from Santiago to Rio and Beyond
      • WHO European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide
      • The art of Medicine - Europe: good, bad, and beautiful
      • Drivers Newsletter
      • Importance of Monitoring Health Inequalities
      • Social Gradient
      • Children's health harmed by rising poverty
      • How you can fight injustice to save lives
      • Family socio-economic status and young children's outcomes
      • Social Determinants of Health Equity
      • Social Determinants of Mental Health
      • Capital Health
      • Health Inequalities: Why they matter
      • From Science to Policy Book Chapter
      • Growing up healthy. Or not. Child health inequalities in the UK
      • Systematic review of parenting interventions in European countries aiming to reduce social inequalities in children's health and development
      • Employment, income and health inequalities in the economic recovery
      • Take the local lead on health inequalities
      • Planning – a powerful tool for reducing health inequalities
      • Going hungry, and the importance of absolute poverty
      • Inégalités en matière de santé en Angleterre: politique récente et éléments de preuve
      • We can do better in building society
      • Planning for Health and Well-Being: Chapter 7 - 'Health Inequalities and the Role of the Physical and Social Environment'
      • A Lancet 'Film and Book' review by Michael Marmot, featuring Inequality: What Can Be Done? a book by Anthony B Atkinson, and The Divide, a film by Katharine Round
      • The art of medicine - Post-truth and science
      • Galileo—speaking truth to power
      • The UK’s current health problems should be treated with urgency - BMJ
      • What can Britain learn from the US on links between economic distress and poor health?
      • Man-made disaster - Book Review - The Lancet
      • Inclusion Health: addressing the causes of the causes - The Lancet
      • Just societies, health equity, and dignified lives: the PAHO Equity Commission
      • Prevention is Better than Cure
      • Health equity in England: the Marmot review 10 years on
      • The Art of Medicine - Society and the slow burn of inequality
      • Health inequalities, COVID-19 and healthcare professionals
      • Ethnic minority groups in England and Wales - factors affecting the size and timing of elevated COVID-19 mortality: a retrospective cohort study linking Census and death records
      • Sustainable health equity: achieving a net-zero UK
      • 61 Family health strategy and health equity among older adults
      • COVID-19 related health inequality exists even in a city where disease incidence is relatively low: a telephone survey in Hong Kong
      • COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities
      • COVID-19 pandemic: a unique opportunity to ‘build back fairer’ and reduce health inequities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region - EMHJ
      • Build back fairer: achieving health equity in the Eastern Mediterranean region of WHO - The Lancet
      • Sajid Javid must promote health across government
      • Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities
      • Working with businesses to tackle health inequality
      • A programme for greater health equity for the next UK Government
    • Press Releases and Briefings
      • Marmot Indicators 2014 Press Release
      • Measuring What Matters: A Guide for Children's Centres
      • Health Inequalities in the EU
      • Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region
      • The impact of the economic downturn and policy changes on health inequalities in London
      • IHE Response to Alcohol Strategy
      • Marmot Indicators 2015 Press Release
      • Marmot Indicators 2017 Briefing
      • PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas met with officials and civil society in Trinidad and Tobago
      • A Fair, Supportive Society - Press Release
      • IHE’s response to Government announcement on prevention and life expectancy
      • A "Wellbeing Economy" must emerge from COVID-19
      • Independent review into the deaths of London bus drivers from Covid-19 suggests earlier lockdown would have saved lives
      • Health inequalities & climate change assessed together to inform sixth carbon budget
      • Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review
      • New report provides groundbreaking insights into the state of health inequities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
      • CONFIRMED: Large falls in life expectancy as health inequalities widen
      • New bold & ambitious framework to reduce inequities & build back fairer for future generations 'If Government is serious about levelling up, here’s how to do it", says Marmot
      • Keep the lifeline - open letter to the Prime Minister - JRF
        • Business must play a positive role in the nation’s health
      • Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health Inequalities in the UK
      • Reducing Health Inequalities in Luton a Marmot Town Press Release
      • Press Release Evidence Review: Housing and Health Inequalities in London
      • The Rising Cost of Living: A Review of Interventions to Reduce Impacts on Health Inequalities in London
      • Barnardo’s to help tackle children’s health equity through launch of new Collaborative
      • Health Inequalities, Lives Cut Short
      • Left Out in the Cold: The Hidden Impact of Cold Homes
      • Englands Widening Health Gap
      • Camden Launches Child Poverty Taskforce
    • The Health Equity Network
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19/03/21
Press Release for the Report from the Second Stage of a Study of London Bus Driver Mortality from COVID-19 Institute of Health Equity

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Press Releases and Briefings 29/05/25
Camden Launches Child Poverty Taskforce Read more
News Coverage 28/05/25
Project Syndicate article on Protectionism Will Not Protect Against Pandemics Read more
News Coverage 27/05/25
Speech by Sir Michael Marmot for 'The Man With The Plan' event Read more
News Coverage 07/05/25
Media coverage on the new WHO 'World Report on Social Determinants of Health Equity' Read more
News Coverage 30/04/25
Sir Michael Marmot visits Liverpool to officially award Marmot City status Read more
News Coverage 11/04/25
Article discussing the impacts of tariffs on health and inequalities Read more
News Coverage 25/03/25
Article discussing the link between the housing and health crises Read more
News Coverage 23/03/25
Director of Public Health, Newcastle and Gateshead Citing Prof Marmot on Covid 19 Pandemic and Preparedness Read more
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