HEALTH INEQUALITIES 

Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. We know from 'Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On' that, in the ten years since Michael Marmot's original report, most measures of health inequalities have worsened. For example, 'the health gap has grown between wealthy and deprived areas' and 'place matters – living in a deprived area of the North East is worse for your health than living in a similarly deprived area in London, to the extent that life expectancy is nearly five years less'. Furthermore, people living in our most deprived communities, compared to those in our least deprived, have a gap in life expectancy of ten years in some areas.