Your article on health inequality (Experts say, June 29, that health inequality “in the Middle Ages” destroys NHS.It describes the worthy efforts of NHS agencies to address some severe health problems in the poorest areas. However, the real problem is that the reason we have such disciplines in health is that they are directly related to the total disparities in wealth and income in this country.
like Professor Michael Marmott Many others have proven, some of the most important factors in determining health are social and economic. It is very good for NHS to make efforts to address the effects of social and economic deprivation in bad areas, but this manages symptoms rather than cause.
It is not a coincidence that the UK has some of the worst health results of developed countries as well as among the worst levels of inequality. Since the greatest progress in health in the past has not attributed to health care improvements, but to improvements in the conditions in which people live, so now it reduces the levels of poverty and inequality through the economic and social change required to address the problems specified in the article significantly. While politicians pretend that they want to address the problem, there is a consensus of failure on the necessary radical changes because the consensus of our policy has been drifted so far to the right.
Stephen Smith
Glasgow
Britain’s “medieval” inequality in the so -called “broken Britain”, is definitely the only way in which “rest” can be repaired is tax increases. Why does this clear solution not get traction? Those who have reasonable income can pay more. Those who have a lot of wealth should pay more. If it is needed now. exhaustion You should bite the bullet, quickly.
Jul Misskin
Sheffield
