We often associate health with medical systems – attending appointments with the general practitioner (GP) or at hospital to identify or treat ill health. But health really starts in the community and, when we begin to consider how health varies across communities, the inequalities we observe are stark. Where you live will determine more about your chances in life than you might ever have considered.
A book from 2013 outlined that between the first four stations on London Underground’s Central Line, life expectancy falls by one day per second travelled for those living along the tube line1.
A more recent article, ‘A wall divides our city’, explores a three-mile area of Sheffield. In education, health, housing and employment, the variation in outcomes across such a small geographic area is alarming2. Health inequalities have existed for many years and individuals, organisations and...
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