{"id":48862,"date":"2020-10-20T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=48862"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:47:36","slug":"covid-19-why-we-must-redraw-the-uks-map-of-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/10\/20\/covid-19-why-we-must-redraw-the-uks-map-of-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Why we must redraw the UK\u2019s map of inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Both the immediate response to and the recovery from the pandemic need to focus on those who have been hit hardest, say Tim Elwell-Sutton and Mehrunisha Suleman<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The covid-19 pandemic is the biggest health crisis in living memory. But it is also a societal crisis. It is wreaking havoc on our economy with millions of people losing jobs and incomes, temporarily or permanently. It has disrupted education and childhood development and changed the way we socialise. While we are all affected in different ways, it\u2019s clear that the pandemic is hurting some groups more than others, and more must be done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the pandemic, the UK was already struggling. Improvements in life expectancy were slowing more sharply here than in almost any other high income country over the past 10 years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/publications\/reports\/the-marmot-review-10-years-on\">the gap between richest and poorest was widening<\/a> rather than closing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The pandemic has hit us harder than many other countries in terms of both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/news-and-comment\/charts-and-infographics\/comparing-covid-19-impact-in-the-uk-to-european-countries\">mortality<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-health-economy\">economy<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Worryingly, the current pandemic threatens to widen existing health inequalities even further. But it may also be opening up new inequalities, as some of those worst affected are not the usual suspects for health inequalities researchers. The impacts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/inequality\/covid-19-and-inequalities\/\">working mothers<\/a> are one example<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These risks are demonstrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/news-and-comment\/blogs\/levelling-up-just-got-much-harder\">a new analysis released by the Health Foundation<\/a> earlier this month. It found that Britain\u2019s poorest areas are now facing a double impact of the worst health outcomes and the most severe financial hardship. The most deprived 20% of local authorities not only have covid-19 mortality rates that are more than twice as high as the wealthiest areas, they have also seen universal credit claimant numbers increase by 8% compared with a 5.1% increase in the most affluent areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pandemic is impacting different age groups in their own unique ways too. Young people have been disproportionately affected, with one in three young people aged 18-24 being furloughed or let go from their jobs, which is twice the rate of working age adults overall. Furthermore, those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds have been more likely to report that covid-19 has had a negative impact on their income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With evidence mounting that the pandemic is threatening to worsen health inequalities, both the immediate response to and the recovery from the pandemic need to focus on those who have been hit hardest. This challenge of trying to protect people from the virus while ensuring that pre-existing inequalities are not exacerbated is perhaps one of the greatest public policy challenges the country has faced for a generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s why we have launched our own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/what-we-do\/a-healthier-uk-population\/mobilising-action-for-healthy-lives\/covid-19-impact-inquiry\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">covid-19 impact inquiry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which seeks to understand the impact the pandemic is having on health and health inequalities and to inform how the government can respond to it. The inquiry, due to report in the summer of 2021, will be led by a panel of leading experts in epidemiology, economics, and social policy, chaired by Dame Clare Moriarty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drawing on a wide range of evidence, the inquiry will examine the impact of the virus and the measures used to control it, on health, the healthcare system, employment, and education. It will consider how factors such as deprivation, age, gender, ethnicity, mental health, and disability have affected people\u2019s experiences of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, a healthy population is one of the nation\u2019s most important assets. Good health supports positive social and economic outcomes, and how we respond to this pandemic will have an enormous impact on people\u2019s lives for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Tim Elwell-Sutton<\/strong>, assistant director, the Health Foundation. Twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tim_esPH\"><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@tim_esPH<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mehrunisha Suleman<\/strong>, senior research fellow, the Health Foundation. Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MehrunishaS\">@MehrunishaS<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the immediate response to and the recovery from the pandemic need to focus on those who have been hit hardest, say Tim Elwell-Sutton and Mehrunisha Suleman [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/10\/20\/covid-19-why-we-must-redraw-the-uks-map-of-inequality\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Covid-19: Why we must redraw the UK\u2019s map of inequality - 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MARCH 18: Job seekers queue outside a Jobcentre Plus branch in London Bridge on March 18, 2009 in London. The number of people out of work in the UK in January 2009 stands at 2.03 million, the highest has been for the past 11 years. Both the British Chambers of Commerce and CBI have predicted UK unemployment will exceed three million during 2010. 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