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Interview: Public health expert Prof Sir Michael Marmot says inequality must be addressed
10 October 2022
Interviewed in The Telegraph, Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity) reflects on his efforts to highlight the real impacts that socio-economic inequality has on the health of the nation, and particularly on its children.
“[The report] showed that the lower the grade of employment, the lower the life expectancy... People near the top have shorter life expectancy than those at the very top, and that runs all the way from top to bottom. People in the middle have about eight-and-a-half years shorter healthy life expectancy than those at the top,” said Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity).
Links
- Article in The Telegraph (£)
- Professor Sir Michael Marmot’s academic profile
- UCL Epidemiology & Health
- UCL Population Health Sciences
- Report: Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health Inequalities
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