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1/ As a medical student I was taught:
Less well off people die earlier than more well off people (Marmot)
Those that need our help are least able to access it. (Tudor-Hart)
I'm summarising #Marmot2020 with key graphs. Apologies if I've lost nuance here @MichaelMarmot. #FOAMed
Less well off people die earlier than more well off people (Marmot)
Those that need our help are least able to access it. (Tudor-Hart)
I'm summarising #Marmot2020 with key graphs. Apologies if I've lost nuance here @MichaelMarmot. #FOAMed
2/ Too often in medicine we focus on 'direct' causes of disease: smoking, diet.
What drives these causes, i.e. indirect causes such as social/economic factors? #Marmot2020 #FOAMed
➡️ Spending on social protection, education, housing and environment has GONE DOWN as % GDP 📉
What drives these causes, i.e. indirect causes such as social/economic factors? #Marmot2020 #FOAMed
➡️ Spending on social protection, education, housing and environment has GONE DOWN as % GDP 📉
3/
➡️Council spending for people in the most deprived areas has been cut the most 📉
#Marmot2020 #FOAMed
➡️Council spending for people in the most deprived areas has been cut the most 📉
#Marmot2020 #FOAMed
Tweeps: two weeks ago today, I nearly lost my life due to a very serious bilateral pulmonary embolism.
I had no symptoms at all, except for tiredness & a little breathlessness, which I attributed to other causes. When you're living with chronic mental ill health & ...1/
I had no symptoms at all, except for tiredness & a little breathlessness, which I attributed to other causes. When you're living with chronic mental ill health & ...1/
...on a very low income due to #UniversalCredit, you get used to feeling rubbish a lot of the time. Vague symptoms like fatigue are inevitably dismissed by GPs.
Over the course of about 8 hours on that Tues, tho, I started feeling faint & very weird. 2/
Over the course of about 8 hours on that Tues, tho, I started feeling faint & very weird. 2/
I got up to use the loo & collapsed, losing consciousness. When I came round, I couldn't breathe.
Luckily, I managed to reach my phone & paramedics from @Ldn_Ambulance came within 30 minutes.
Unluckily, I couldn't get to the door & ... 3/
Luckily, I managed to reach my phone & paramedics from @Ldn_Ambulance came within 30 minutes.
Unluckily, I couldn't get to the door & ... 3/
THREAD: The Marmot Review 10 Years On, commissioned by @HealthFdn, reveals widening health inequalities and devastating impact of #childpoverty #Marmot2020 instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-repo… 1/n
@HealthFdn "Child poverty is not an inevitability, but largely the result of political and policy choices in areas including social
protection, taxation rates, housing and income and minimum wage policies" #Marmot2020 2/n
protection, taxation rates, housing and income and minimum wage policies" #Marmot2020 2/n
@HealthFdn "Rates of child poverty, a critical measure for early child development, have increased since 2010 and are now back
to their pre-2010 levels with over four million children affected." #Marmot2020 #marmot 3/n
to their pre-2010 levels with over four million children affected." #Marmot2020 #marmot 3/n
