Firstly, regarding house building. They are not addressing building on flood plains. Which continue to do. And cost insurance company’s huge amounts of money. This must be addressed. Also they are still not mitigating against Covid. In any indoor settings, including Hospitals, and GP surgeries. No clean air either. HEPA filters. Open doors, and windows. No FFP3 mask wearing. Covid is not being prevented. And neither is long Covid. We are still heading into a welfare budget crisis. Because this Government, and others. Will not tackle social deprivation. Improving deprived locations. Lowering healthy food prices. To encourage better health.
Many thanks for this analysis. Social determinants and public health for sure; inequality though is not evenly spread across the country so neither are the costs for the NHS and Social Services. There is much devil in the detail.
Historically, obesity has risen rapidly as a health issue following the earlier epidemic in the USA. We share more than perhaps we realise with trends across the globe. Whether UK can afford the NHS will in part depend on how we deal with old age. Medical knowledge is beginning to understand some ill-consequences of 'modern life'.
This recent article in Nature flags up the need for more fundamental understanding relevant to the build up of 'our' chronic diseases of old age. http://bit.ly/4lwfl8u
Great summary Christina, thank you. I too am encouraged by the plan, but as you rightly point out, poverty underlies every aspect of poor health. Until this is dealt with the problems will persist. Likewise, until a government is prepared to be brave enough to tackle the food industry, obesity will not go away.
Thanks to Christina for such a clear analysis highlighting the contributions of social determinants to health and how the NHS 10 year Plan addresses these; and in such readable language! 👍🏾
Social Determinant for Health, as per Marmot some years ago now, are important, but its for Govt and in particular local Govt to deliver, not the NHS. Just watched Jim Mackey, NHS England's new CEO in conversation with the Patients Ass https://www.patients-association.org.uk/working-together-for-change-a-conversation-with-sir-jim-mackey-watch as he says paraphrased Local Govt hasn't received the funding it needs to deliver its end of the bargain..
Thanks Christina!
Firstly, regarding house building. They are not addressing building on flood plains. Which continue to do. And cost insurance company’s huge amounts of money. This must be addressed. Also they are still not mitigating against Covid. In any indoor settings, including Hospitals, and GP surgeries. No clean air either. HEPA filters. Open doors, and windows. No FFP3 mask wearing. Covid is not being prevented. And neither is long Covid. We are still heading into a welfare budget crisis. Because this Government, and others. Will not tackle social deprivation. Improving deprived locations. Lowering healthy food prices. To encourage better health.
The reliance on primary care, remote access and technology sounds similar to Mrs May's strategy for the NHS. Could the two plans be related?
Many thanks for this analysis. Social determinants and public health for sure; inequality though is not evenly spread across the country so neither are the costs for the NHS and Social Services. There is much devil in the detail.
Historically, obesity has risen rapidly as a health issue following the earlier epidemic in the USA. We share more than perhaps we realise with trends across the globe. Whether UK can afford the NHS will in part depend on how we deal with old age. Medical knowledge is beginning to understand some ill-consequences of 'modern life'.
This recent article in Nature flags up the need for more fundamental understanding relevant to the build up of 'our' chronic diseases of old age. http://bit.ly/4lwfl8u
Great summary Christina, thank you. I too am encouraged by the plan, but as you rightly point out, poverty underlies every aspect of poor health. Until this is dealt with the problems will persist. Likewise, until a government is prepared to be brave enough to tackle the food industry, obesity will not go away.
Thanks to Christina for such a clear analysis highlighting the contributions of social determinants to health and how the NHS 10 year Plan addresses these; and in such readable language! 👍🏾
Social Determinant for Health, as per Marmot some years ago now, are important, but its for Govt and in particular local Govt to deliver, not the NHS. Just watched Jim Mackey, NHS England's new CEO in conversation with the Patients Ass https://www.patients-association.org.uk/working-together-for-change-a-conversation-with-sir-jim-mackey-watch as he says paraphrased Local Govt hasn't received the funding it needs to deliver its end of the bargain..