The new government report released today on #Covid19UK and #ethnicity does little to to *actually* help vulnerable BME communities and stem race still being a social determinant of health. In our report with @IPPR we found that:
- Underlying health conditions NOT important /1
- Underlying health conditions NOT important /1
- 58,000 extra deaths if white population faced same risk factors as black population i.e occupational and socio-economic
- Main factors unequal social conditions (i.e occupation and housing), unequal access to healthcare, and structural/ institutional racism that underpins them
- Main factors unequal social conditions (i.e occupation and housing), unequal access to healthcare, and structural/ institutional racism that underpins them
The new government measures including the new Community Champions scheme to improve public health messaging, does not plug the gap in local authority funding faced by BME communities in this country and the tiny amount of money allocated to it is no where near enough /3
The government is also unwilling to accept that these issues are structural and systemic and are again failing to understand that race is still a social determinant of health. /4
It is nothing short of a national scandal that the budget the government has allocated in today’s announcement appears to amount to less than £25 million. /5.
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